I tried the Metro chorizo once. Not at all like the Portuguese chorizo I would buy back home.

If anyone likes kielbasa the Russian sausage from Harbin on Taobao is pretty good.

Lion batteries are extremely dangerous. China has pretty strict rules and documentation requirements for export for batteries and whatever they are installed in.

DHL is about the only freight company that will handle Lion batteries but you need to ship in Shenzhen. Special packaging and labeling is also required both in China and the US even for the small 'coin' batteries.

About 2 years ago I had a shipment delayed for 3 months due to the Shanghai factory not having the battery specs correct. Stuff was in Shenzhen waiting for the paperwork. 36 hours after the stuff was released, I got it.

@Alienew Everyone should discriminate against the WSW web site. ;-)

@AlexKMG

I agree with you. Using solar panels to recharge devices is usually a loser. Many years ago I bought a very expensive solar panel set up to charge a battery on a sailboat. Didn't work out. A second battery did.

I have a ZeroLemon battery "bank" with a built in solar panel and it never fully charges.

I use a 30000mAh bank for trips but it can't fly. I use a 2000mAh bank for air travel.

These banks are great but be sure of the quality. They can turn into nasty little bombs.

China's need to restrict or control the internet is China's business. I lived with it for 12 years and with a VPN I found it a minor annoyance. I would modify my postings here, self censor my self, out of respect for GoK's position.

I would prefer nothing be censored for any reason and that there would be no restriction on ideas and opinions. China has her rules and I always felt bound to respect them.

I see the hidden censorship by Google, Facebook, Twitter to be a much greater danger to freedom. Silently, but effectively, voices of a particular bias are being silenced. The MSM produces minor news while ignoring other factual information. At times old stories are republished for ideological reasons 30-45 days after they first reported.

In 2008, CNN showed videos of Tibetans being beaten by what CNN called PLA troops but were actually Nepalese police. Day after day, again and again CNN repeated this lie. I sent several emails to CNN pointing out the error. My Chinese colleagues and friends used this shameful reporting to laugh at the American concept of "Free Speech."

So, Mr. Stratocaster, while I object to censorship, by anyone, of any ideology or ideas, I do not object to you and your ideas. You have every right to wrong, in accurate, misleading and even ignorant. Go for it!