Last Updated on August 3, 2023
Slightly unrelated but I just want to mention that I was absolutely obsessed with Beijing’s subway’s prerecorded message that plays near all of the escalators. As you prepare to step onto any escalator in the city, a gentle woman’s voice announces aloud: “请站稳, (Qing Zhan Wen) Please stand firm and hold the handrail.”
By the end of the trip, I caught myself repeating the message to myself as I walked all around Beijing.
请站稳! 请站稳! 请站稳!!!!
Please stand firm and hold the handrail!!!
Because most of them don’t know English and they don’t want to spend money to ask help from someone who knows English. So most of the signs were translated by machines e.g. google translate.?
Hahahaha I love it! Some of the translations were hysterical. Made the trip even more fun.
So I guess you will be using the escalator a lot when you are back in the US….. 😀
Yes! I will stand firm, hold the hand rail, and tell others to do the same.