Either Alipay or WechatPay, most of the time. Cash is allowed as well.
Things like city bikes are great and very convenient. In Kaohsiung it used docking stations and a metro card. From what I hear, in China they are dockless, and use mobile apps (which means an expensive roaming data plan) and Chinese payments. These may be convenient for locals, but very user-unfriendly to foreigners. Locals probably have their routine figured out, whereas foreigners are probably going to visit new places, and will therefore use bicycles more.
This may not work for more than street-food-level expenses though.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3036457/foreign-t...