Lesson Comments

sorry zhen,I meant to thank you for your 看法。Well I must say I feel like giving it a crack now just to see,but in reality I don't have time to fit it i... Read more

local Shanghai food can be much stranger than pig's blood. 比如：。。？ Read more

No damper at all. (as far as I'm concerned anyway!) I never got a taste for 猪血 specifically, but while living in Nanjing, I ate a ton of 鸭血粉丝汤, which... Read more

I hate to put a dampener on the mouth-watering discussion but when eating out with Shanghai friends one day we (the foreigners) ate 小笼包 while our host... Read more

I wouldn't say it's necessarily wrong to say 中文学生们, but I feel like 们 usually isn't used to pluralize abstract groups of people in this way. (like 'st... Read more

Thanks Barbs Which reminded me (Connie's comment) of the other thing to say to a 杭州人：上有天堂，下有苏杭。shàng yǒu tiāntáng, xià yǒu Sū Háng One of China'... Read more

I used to always wonder how they go the soup in the dumpling (especially with 鸡汁汤包 and regular 汤包) and then I found out they simply use a really juicy... Read more

there was a lesson on 西湖醋鱼 and 藕粉 of course which might be worth looking into zhen if you haven't already: http://chinesepod.com/lessons/hungry-tra... Read more

Thanks for the reminder about the bus dialogues - by coincidence I thought about it yesterday while on the bus, and made it a resolution (quietly, to... Read more

Mate,your first answer clearly shows you weren't questioning enough [it only looks like a weak halfhearted question] so I think that it was definitely... Read more