Trip to England (Day6)

I went to the conference and mommy went shopping, of course. Manchester has one of the biggest shopping centers in Europe. The name sounded like "traffic center". Wow, there must so many people going there that the traffic is quite heavy. We later found out that the real name is "Trafford Center". The Brits speak so fast we just can't catch every syllable. Especially with the Manchester accent, which is more exotic than the standard London accent. "Bus stop" is "boos stoop" and "much" is "mooch". We had to do a lot of phonetic translation while listening to them, thus taking more processing time.

We discovered Chinatown is only a few blocks from our hotel. No problem for dinner then. Hmm, the food was much better than we had expected. Much better than the Chinese restaurants I went to before in France, Sweden or the Netherlands. We just don't know how to tip here. The bill includes a service fee which looks like 10%, but they still ask you if you want to put in a tip. (And they won't be mad if you don't add a tip.) Confusing ...