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-- ME --
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Hi, I'm Fei (pronunciation /feɪ/, Felix is the English name). I'm 29, have been in Beijing for 6 years. My job is software engineer.

I'm half vegetarian (eat eggs, fish and shrimp), since I was born (maybe?). But it's OK for me if you eat meat.

I like languages, culture diversities, trains and making friends. My friends told me that I am easy going and very helpful.

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-- HOST --
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I live in an apartment with 2 bedrooms, one is for me and the other is for you (ONE person only). I can host you for less than 5 days, maybe around 3 days. Since I live alone, I'd like everything to be well organized and tidy.

I hope you are under 40 years old, NEAT, with good behavior and don't smoke. I am friendly to gay people.

I like to follow the PLAN and be PUNCTUAL. If you have to change your plan, please let me know asap.

I am a terrible local and guide. I don't know interesting places and I don't know the background if you point a building and ask me. After so many years living here, Beijing already became my home. What interesting for me are sunny days, relaxing weekends, watching movies, finding a new restaurant and eating with friends. But I could tell you what places are not worthy to go, fix some bugs for you and make your experience nicer here. People going here with different purposes, tourist, backpacker, gap year, research, internship, job seeking, life meaning seeking, seeing the real China... I am your stepping stone. I want to do a little favor to help you make it.

P.S.
I work late at workdays, usually arrive home after 21:00. I can hang out with you at weekends if I am free.

I don't know why some people I hosted didn't write references for me. It's not polite and not cool at all. I would believe that you just forgot to do that.

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-- How to say you are vegetarian --
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我 不 吃 肉，吃 菜
wo bu chi rou, chi cai
It sounds like "wo boo chee row, chee tsai", means I don't eat meat but vegetables.

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-- When you arrive in Beijing --
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# SIM Card: You can buy it at airport with your passport. Sim cards of China Mobile (中国移动) or China Unicom (中国联通) are recommended.

# Exchange Money: You can withdraw cash on every ATM of 'Bank of China' (中国银行) with your VISA/MASTER/JCB/AMEX/DCI bank cards.

# Public Transport: You can buy metro card (the blue card, called Yikatong 一卡通) at almost every metro station (if they have staff), it can be used on metro and bus (50% off on bus) in Beijing. There are 20 yuan as deposit inside, you can return the card at some metro stations (International Airport T2/T3, Beijing Railway Station, Beijing West Railway Station, Beijing South Railway Station, Beijing North Railway Station aka Xizhimen, etc) before you leave China. If you are also going to visit other cities, it is recommended to buy another type of metro card (JingJinJi Yikatong 京津冀一卡通), it can be used in over 200 cities in China (but except Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, etc). If your mobile phone has NFC, you may add a virtual metro card on your phone, eg in ApplePay, HuaweiPay, MiPay.

# Accommodation: Many hotels and airbnbs DO NOT accept foreigners because of no qualification. You have to make sure before you make a reservation. If you decide to live in local people's home, you need register your accommodation at local police station within 24 hours of your arrival (let your host help you). So in order to make it simple, it is suggested that live in a hostel/hotel for the first night, the hostel/hotel will do the registration for you.

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-- Recommended Apps/Websites --
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# IM：WeChat [Almost everyone uses it in China]

# Hotel/Train/Flight/Ticket：trip.com, booking

# Map：Apple Map, Gaode Map (高德地图), Baidu Map (百度地图) [Chinese version only. Google Map is not recommended, because much information about China is out of date.]

# Search Engine: bing.com, baidu.com [Website]

# Transtation: Google Translate, YoudaoTranslate (有道翻译官) [Chinese/English/Spanish/Russian/Japanese/Korean/Indonesian user interface, over 100 languages translation.]

# Restaurant: DazhongDianping (大众点评) [Chinese version only]

# Mobile Payment: WeChat, Alipay. Highly recommended, you can pay almost everywhere with your phone, even for the beggars [Now available for foreigners without Chinese bank account, see https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mElhXYEoDADL_maDh6uKCg and https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BjihhTXiW3Q6aClls_y_Ew]

P.S.
You can not access Google/Youtube/Facebook/Twitter/WhatsApp/Instagram in China unless using your country's SIM card with roaming on or VPN.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Make friends and exchange culture with people from all over the world.

Interests

• coffee
• vegetarian
• geography
• movie
• train
• languages and cultures
• cooking together

Music, Movies, and Books

# Music
punto y aparte, 成都, 皇后大道东, everybody knows i love you
all of me

# Books
Principles: Life and Work
谁在世界中心
格鲁夫给经理人的第一课

# Movies / TV series
Mr. Donkey (驴得水)
无名之辈
Signal (South Korean TV series)
How to get away with murder
13 reasons why
Black Mirror

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bungee from 55-meters-high platform on the sea;

Went to North Korea the first time I went abroad.

Teach, Learn, Share

# Teach
Chinese language;
Advice about traveling in China.

# Learn
Your culture, language, experience.
I am learning German, if you are native speaker or you have good advice, I can learn from you.

# Share
Cook Chinese food for you;
WiFi, TV, kitchen...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore

Countries I’ve Lived In

China