Futuristic payment: Yeoh scanning her customer Wen XuQing’s, 26, (left), payment code using Alipay account application at her restaurant in New Lane in George Town.
GEORGE TOWN: No cash changes hands but when local hawkers accept payment via Alipay from free-spending China tourists, it’s literally the “ka-ching!” of the 21st century.
Many of these Penang hawkers, who have started to get paid via the China-based cashless payment platform that uses a smartphone app and QR code, are making more money too.
