In Shenzhen, more of the population comes from many different parts of China to find good jobs. For this reason, the people in the city use Mandarin, the most common dialect, to communicate with each other.
In Shenzhen, people still use the renminbi to buy the things they need, but just across the border in Hong Kong, they use a different kind of money called the Hong Kong dollar.
In Shenzhen, things are a bit more expensive than they are in Guangzhou. A bottle of water costs three Renminbi. Let's try a math problem: if 15 renminbi equals one U.S. dollar, then how many U.S. dollars is a three renminbi bottle of water? Hint: It's less than a dollar!
My best meal this week was from my favorite noodle place that also serves a very good dish with tofu. Do you know what tofu is made from? It's made from soybeans. Many of the soybeans used to make tofu are grown in America and Brazil.
