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Apr 2023
12m 12s

Upper-intermediate | All You Can Eat and...

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Awww yeah. Another Olympic lesson for you, Olympics for gluttons that is. For many of us, the only four words more satisfying than 'your Chinese is excellent' and 'you look like Brad Pitt', are 'all you can drink.' In this podcast, find out how to take advantage of a Shanghai buffet phenomenon, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0779

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