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bodawei
Posted on: Hospitality Series 4: Chinese Breakfast
October 28, 2011 at 10:18 PM哈哈，我同意，玉米糊很好吃，可是还有其它选择的，例如：豌豆，豆浆，等等。在云南豌豆是我最爱的。 麦当劳我没去过。。除了用厕所。:)
让我想起，每天十一点以前肯德基(KFC)有粥，有时在飞机场我买了。
I agree, corn porridge is great, but there are other options: green pea porridge, and a bowl of soy milk and so on. In Yunnan my all time favourite is the green pea porridge. I haven't been to MacDonald's except to use the toilet. :) Which reminds me, every day before 11am at KFC they have rice porridge, sometimes I buy it at the airport.
(Hey mate, by the way, in Elementary there is a convention here to follow any Chinese with an English translation.)
Posted on: Hospitality Series 4: Chinese Breakfast
October 28, 2011 at 6:50 AMoh, I just realized that even my new avatar reveals something of my preferences.
Posted on: Hospitality Series 4: Chinese Breakfast
October 28, 2011 at 6:44 AMoops. Well Jenny, 粥 is my favourite breakfast, or 玉米 yùmǐ (corn porridge), and I never eat cereal or toast, mainly because I can't eat wheat. And I drink 热水. Having said that, I agree with you - most foreigners do not like Chinese breakfasts.
Posted on: Hospitality Series 4: Chinese Breakfast
October 28, 2011 at 6:37 AM粥 zhōu (congee) is indeed flavoursome in many parts of China - I think Shanghai and places nearby have the watery bland variety. Please don't generalise, you are talking about the food of the gods. Most places I have been add pickled vegetables and sometimes egg. In Hong Kong and Guangdong of course you get the best 粥 of all, my mouth is watering as I write. My favourite adds both fish and chicken.
And 热水 rèshuǐ (hot water) I have every morning; I must be turning Chinese. Coffee and even tea, for me, is an assault on the stomach first thing in the morning.
Posted on: 老人摔倒扶不扶？
October 28, 2011 at 6:09 AM"there is no jealousy in China"
I agree, an interesting comment. I'm not sure that I can agree with the comment, but there is a great acceptance of your lot (at least as old as Confucius), so I think that I understand the roots of this behaviour. People are much more accepting than in my society, but I believe that is starting to change.
Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication
October 27, 2011 at 11:30 AMHi zhong_bide
I'm not sure what I said to draw you to conclude that I am not from Queensland! :) I'm from Queensland when we play State of Origin football, and when I find the place I live in embarrassing. Anyway, I agree that the Australian health system is pretty good. And that it is difficult to compare with the US .
Posted on: 老人摔倒扶不扶？
October 25, 2011 at 3:21 AM'China doesn't need a large police force?'
I think that to understand this (small police force) you neeed to consider both the social behaviours I have attempted to describe as well as the economics - China is still a poor country and cannot afford police forces like we do. The geography also stretches resources. In fact the reasons interact - I'm sure that certain behaviours became the norm because of the limited resources. Extreme cases of this can be found in parts of the world (eg. parts of Pakistan) where much of the population carry their own guns because the official police can't protect them. China hasn't resorted so much to guns but neither do they rely as much on the police force as we do.
Posted on: A Disappointing Delivery
October 24, 2011 at 10:54 AMI have only experienced contract 送货的. I don't know how they get paid exactly but I can't imagine them being out of pocket if the wrong item is delivered, it's not their fault. I also wonder who pays their phone bills - I reckon I got six calls before someone finally got to the door. They won't come unless they are sure you are home.
One guy delivered me some books and he wouldn't come up to my door. I walked to the front gate and he said he couldn't come up because he had his little daughter with him - there she was, about 5 years old, sitting in front of him on the 电动车, doing the deliveries.
Posted on: 老人摔倒扶不扶？
October 24, 2011 at 10:12 AMMaybe we don't disagree at all .. :)
I was responding to 'It must be so very hard for her parents ... to see people like that.' Of course it is hard, but I was assuming that you meant that they would be shocked and amazed. (Now I look at it again perhaps that is not a necessary conclusion.) They would be shocked because it is so close to home, but they would have seen such indifference before I think.
High crime rate ?? Serious crime rate is quite low compared to US, UK, Australia (you've taught me not to say 'Western').. it is an indifference more than something that is likely to lead to serious crime. And people 'in the circle' look out for each other, so that keeps the crime rate down too. People are quite nosy about the neighbours - this seems to contradict the indifference trait but it is a case of crossing the line; inside the circle you are nosy and outside the line you don't care.
Posted on: Hospitality Series 4: Chinese Breakfast
October 29, 2011 at 10:16 AMGo to a restaurant where you can watch them being made? Same applies to 馄饨 huntun and 饺子 jiaozi. You will then know as much about what's really inside than when buying something from the supermarket.