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Posted on: Push and Pull
April 27, 2011, 06:50 AMReminds me of the "less than positive" way to describe someone:
'Going through life pushing doors marked "Pull"....'
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
April 05, 2011, 08:26 AMGreat lesson - more recipe lessons would be welcome!
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 09, 2011, 02:05 AMGreat show - love the idea of interviews with local people. How about chatting to students - university/high school to hear their views about life, culture, etc? And then interview some elderly people to hear things from their perspective.
Posted on: Catching a Train
July 21, 2010, 08:49 AMOur train travel experience to Xi'an was in 2003.
Posted on: Catching a Train
July 20, 2010, 07:14 AMI've got a very humourous train story - a few years ago on our first visit to China, my husband and I took an overnight train from Beijing to Xi'an. We shared a compartment with two men, probably in their 50's. I had bought a small mahjong set in one of the markets - more ornamental than practical, but when I took it out to see whether it had any English instructions - which it did - the two guys got seriously animated and set about teaching us how to play! They had zero English and my Mandarin wasn't very good at that stage and I'm not sure I would have been able to work out their dialects or accents anyway. But language was no barrier as the 4 of us huddled over this set of tiny tiles at the minute table in the train compartment. So with loud and enthusiastic shouts of jī (鸡) and chī （吃）, we spent a memorable couple of hours. Luckily they did not insist on adding money into the process, because I don't think we would have come away unscathed... At one stage they seemed to become frustrated that we weren't grasping the intricacies of the game quickly enough so they subtly took over our tiles as well and played on our behalf against themselves!
As the evening progressed, the news spread throughout the train about the laowai playing mahjong and we soon had a crowd of interested observers hanging through the compartment doors and windows. Eventually in the early hours of the morning after trying unsuccessfully to hint that we wanted to get some sleep, I had to start packing the tiles away in order to get all the spectators out of our compartment. Every time I look at the mahjong set in our display cabinet it makes me smile to think of this unique train experience - it is definitely one of our treasured China memories.
Posted on: Ordering Pizza
July 17, 2010, 09:00 AMIn some of the online dictionaries, bǐsa 比萨 is used instead of pīsa 披萨 - is this a regional difference?
Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 13, 2010, 08:52 AMtry:
http://www.baanbophut.com/wordpress/koh-samui-guide/thai-fruits/
Posted on: Getting into the habit with 习惯 (xíguàn)
June 26, 2010, 08:41 AMhow about: "wǒ měitiān zǎoshang xíguàn liànxī tàijíquán"?
Posted on: Diet Coke
June 16, 2010, 01:30 PMThanks guys!
Posted on: Talking About the Working Hours Policy
August 31, 2011, 03:46 AMSwipe card - 刷卡 - what term should one use for the new kind of credit “chip" card that must be pushed into the slot at the bottom of the payment device? Trying to 刷 it doesn't work!