How to order Mcdonald’s delivery in Shanghai (and Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen…)

Many people ask me how to order McDonald’s delivery in Shanghai – and I’ve been taking advantage of this superb service for the last four months, but I keep losing the telephone number (well to be truthful, I keep losing my phone, which has the number in it…). With this in mind, I am putting simple steps here so that wherever I am I will be able to find my ordering instructions:

Step 1
Call 4008-517-517 from your home phone or mobile

Step 2
Press ’2′ for English (or press ’1′ for Chinese)

Step 3
If this is your first time calling, you need to register your address with them. So just tell them your address (they are speaking English after all). If it’s not your first time, they will tell you your phone number and address before proceeding to Step 4…

Step 4
Order your Big Mac, McChicken sandwich or whatever other delicious food that you want!

That’s it! They will deliver it in between 30-45mins and it’s (usually) warm-hot. Delivery charge is 7rmb. The service is 24 hours a day and follows the ‘breakfast menu / daytime menu’ times of the normal McDonald’s (I don’t know what they are as I don’t tend to wake up before ‘daytime menu’ begins :E ).

*Update* – The McDonald’s delivery number is the same for the whole of China, so if you’re in Beijing, Guangzhou or Shenzhen just follow the same instructions to order McDonald’s delivery! Enjoy!

See also: How to order KFC delivery in Shanghai!

The Great Wall of China (万里长城) @ Badaling (八达岭)

不到长城非好汉
He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man.
Mao Zedong

So recently we went to the Great Wall of China (万里长城) at Badaling (八达岭), about 50 miles away from Beijing. It’s the most visited chunk of the wall due to its proximity to China’s capital, and it’s really well suited to visitors and tourists like us! Woo hoo!

Check out the massive sign on the hill, advertising the Olympics. There’s going to be a lot of recycling done in China in November…

It was about 40rmb (£3) to get ‘in’ to the wall, and then you could choose to go left or right. How exciting! As we knew nothing about anything, we went left! I was pretty happy with our decision as it seemed like our direction was the ULTRA HARDCORE one…

…as this steep picture suggests! It was quite worrying seeing some of the people (60+ yrs old) really trying to hold on to the guardrails as their lives flashed before their eyes. I was also crapping myself at various points, especially when J revealed his ‘tactic’ of running down the wall (“it’s the safest way to do it”)…

We saw this mad set of stairs on the side of the wall…but J assured me that he’d seen a documentary about the GWOC a few weeks ago and this was NOT a battering ram. I was sad.

Walll walll walll!

All along the wall there are small rooms where you can sit and emo-photo (or hide from the rain). I preferred the former.

It’s a really long wall.

This picture was meant to show off how steep this section of the wall was, but it ended up with J doing the robot / Ric Flair strut.

Seriously I have no idea…

Well we made it to the top, so why not reward ourselves with some ice-cold beer or four! Interestingly, the price of beer decreased the higher you got – the shop at the gate charged 30rmb per can (£2.20ish), but at the highest point that we could reach the lovely ‘travelling salesman’ woman charged….5rmb! China: Where supply and demand make no sense.