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clay
Posted on: Fortunate Cookies
June 12, 2008 at 6:21 AMmoniken,
thanks for stopping by! No, you will not find fortune cookies in shanghai, at least to my knowledge. It would be a novel idea though, an american style chinese restaurant here in china with fortune cookies, general tsao's chicken, and sweet-n-sour pork with that awesome fluorescent sauce.
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June 12, 2008 at 4:07 AMchangye,
yes there is... kinda. our academic staff all have it. when you hover your mouse over the words, you get a translation. the main issue is that it is meant for english to chinese, however it does have chinese to english, but i have found it is not very accurate. yet, having something is better than nothing i suppose.
http://g.iciba.com/
Posted on: Do you have a menu?
June 12, 2008 at 2:59 AMmanjushri,
what is the difference between 这里 and 这儿 ?
no difference. they are the same thing. you are more likely to find the 这儿 up north, while in taiwan and in the south, 这里.
Posted on: Airplane Arrival
June 12, 2008 at 2:51 AMdaev,
Does anybody know the Chinese word for flight attendant?
空姐 kōngjiě
Posted on: Fortunate Cookies
June 12, 2008 at 2:23 AMchangye,
looks like you and california courts are in agreement. wikipedia states that there was a court case in '83 to settle this, and hagiwara is proclaimed as the inventor.
also, on the way to work this morning i noticed the use of 正宗 zhèngzōng on a couple of restaraunt signs. I had learned 地道 dìdao to mean genuine/authentic, but after going over this lesson, the word was fresh in my mind and i saw it all over the place.
Posted on: Fortunate Cookies
June 12, 2008 at 2:18 AMI thought this was so interesting when i first came to asia as a 14 year old. i couldnt believe the chinese restaurants in singapore didnt have fortune cookies!
from what i have discovered online, two people claim the cookie.
#1 A Chinese immigrant, David Jung, living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company invented the fortune cookie in 1918.
#2 A Japanese immigrant named Makoto Hagiwara invented the fortune cookie in San Francisco in 1914. He was the designer of the famous Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
either way, it was born in Cali... not China.
Posted on: Sightseeing at Tiananmen
June 12, 2008 at 1:48 AMall,
please dont make me ban another user.
allright... lets get back to learning some mandarin.
Posted on: I Can/Can't Afford it (...得起 & ...不起）
June 11, 2008 at 8:17 AMallmajors,
如果你养不起你自己，你怎么养得起我。
red = wrong character
you pretty much said it correct, just move the order around a bit and you have a well said sentence.
Posted on: Sightseeing at Tiananmen
June 11, 2008 at 7:53 AMman2toe,
they dont have a similiar method to capitalizing to signify yelling. only thing that works is adding exclamation marks
Posted on: Fortunate Cookies
June 12, 2008 at 9:53 AMyes