User Comments - bweedin
bweedin
Posted on: Playing Ice Hockey
January 12, 2011 at 4:24 PMyep and they insist Taipei is just a temporary capital, until the Republic of China (中華民國）gets the Mainland back and reestablish Nanjing as the capital.
It seems like both sides of the strait have issues with losing face.
Posted on: Playing Ice Hockey
January 12, 2011 at 4:18 PMI have two classmates from Taiwan in the same class. One, if you even want to talk to him about the weather in China, he'll say, "I'm not Chinese, I'm Taiwanese."
The other, if you say she's Taiwanese, she'll say, "It's silly to say I'm 'Taiwanese' I'm just Chinese from Taiwan."
One man I met from the Mainland didn't flat out tell me that they were their own country, but when I mentioned going to Taiwan to study Chinese, he looked very surprised and said that their culture is different from his, but he could have just meant maybe as different as Dongbei is from Guangdong.
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 9, 2011 at 9:23 PMMy understanding was that a Caffe Americano/美式咖啡 was a strong black coffee, possibly espresso with a little bit of hot water added to it? It's funny you say that, because if the coffee is not hot enough to give me third degree burns, it's not hot enough!
I've also never heard of flat white, but if it wasn't for the 澳式咖啡 hint, I would have thought it was just steamed milk or what is known as a latte in Italy
Are you trying to confuse us with those weird mL units that are only used in chemistry class?
All joking aside, though, using 華氏 when talking about the temperature in Chinese just sounds weird, and I will think in 攝氏 when speaking Chinese.
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 5, 2011 at 6:01 PMhaha that is pretty clever!
There was this 意大利回來的中國人 who had a coffee shop in Wenzhou and I could just order "Caffe Americano" or whatever, but when he had gone home and only his staff was there, I had to say ”美式咖啡“
When he tried to speak English, he had an Italian accent. lol
It's funny, because I would rarely drink coffee in America, but in China that was my break from Chinese food. Whether it be instant or made by a Chinese guy who lived in Italy for ten years. It beats going to 麥當勞。
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 5, 2011 at 5:39 AMI have no face by asking this, but what is Afogato? Is that Italian food?
大力水手也是Popeye的中文名字。
Posted on: Which is better: China or the USA?
January 1, 2011 at 4:56 AMI live in L.A., but I'm originally from Panama and I miss Panamanian Chinese (Cantonese) food. and no, there's no orange chicken or fortune cookies haha
in your hometown, do they give everyone chopsticks, or do they only give them to you if you look Asian? I noticed that in L.A. they give everyone chopsticks, but in NYC and Dallas you have to ask for them.
Posted on: Merry Christmas!
January 1, 2011 at 4:47 AMI make it an obsession of mine to try and remember all the Chinese names I can lol
Who would have known that 大力水手 was gin & tonic, at least in one bar in Wenzhou, because when I told the bartender in Taipei, she didn't understand me.
and then there's taco, 墨西哥捲
or were you talking about Chinese food names, and not translations of Western things? 反正，我都喜歡
Posted on: Which is better: China or the USA?
December 29, 2010 at 4:36 PMI love most things Chinese and American, but the only thing I hate more than Americanized Chinese food is Hong Kong Western 茶餐廳 food.
Posted on: Which is better: China or the USA?
December 29, 2010 at 4:23 PMa lot of Chinese people eat fried rice with spoons too.
and Chinese people go through great lengths to avoid touching food with their hands. If you eat anything with your hands, be sure to put plastic gloves on first!
Posted on: Marco Polo in China
January 26, 2011 at 6:38 AMculture clash . . . like my roommate from Germany, the other foreign teacher at my school, leaving an open umbrella in the house so that it would dry faster. Even though I'm not superstitious, it still was weird for me.