Maybe because of the anti-corruption campaign, now a lot of high-end restaurants offer extremely cheap coupons and set meals. And because of fierce competition of different APPs in China, we can enjoy luxury in a vey reasonable price with huge discounts. It's very easy to order 4/5 star hotel with less than $40 and have dinner in a palace-like restaurant with less than $10 per capita.
Another change here is the shopping habit. Some old shopping malls used to cover the entire city. But now, every district has at least one huge shopping centre. In 2014, more than 10 shopping centres were opened, 19 will be in 2015. So shopping in big malls becomes one part of the things done within community. Some old style local shopping centres are fading away(some once famous ones are closed), they got to be improved or will be forgotten in years. More gigantic malls like IKEA's grand shopping centre attract people from downtown to suburban areas, making life there much easier. Wuhanese used to shop in a department store and then find a nearby restaurant, but now everything is within one shopping centre, spending a whole day in one place.
One "tiny" community-level shopping centre where I watched movie yesterday. Small, but it offers all kinds of Chinese and foreign cuisines, cinema, bookstore, children's playground, arcade games, supermarket, etc, basically everything.
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And I also go to food streets at night.
Having some BBQ and fried dumplings.
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