User Comments - geiwotangba
geiwotangba
Posted on: Fat Camp
February 22, 2011 at 12:26 AMOne thing about China is one finds one has to walk many flights of stairs everyday, at least in the supposed countryside. Course, this may not be the case in a city like Shanghai, where you may have access to elevators and escalators. Here, I walk down four flights from my dorm to the school where I teach, walk up another two flights to the office, walk another two flights to teach, walk down another two to get back to the office, and do this about five times a day and then it's back to the dorm to sleep, up another four flights. But, for lunch, I go out to eat, walking a mile there and back for a good noodle soup for ten yen, and will do the same for dinner. I avoid the school cafeteria. Plenty of opportunities to burn a lot of fat in a country town.
Posted on: Fat Camp
February 22, 2011 at 12:16 AMI still remember when I was young and went to NYC with my parents and walked through those museums near Central Park. Seeing all those oil paintings of plump naked chicks and scratching my head in thinking about how unattractive they all looked. And that was art produced in response to the supposed dark/middle ages.
Like you said, go to a Buddhist Temple in China and look at all those fat and happy enlightened depictions of Buddha and then look at all those serene skinny enlightened Buddhist women....at least the women in China get the valued service of being told they're unsightly when they get fat. Although, my rather plump Chinese mother-in-law rarely misses an opportunity to tell me how fat I'm becoming in my middle age. But, she is now quite proud of me that after adopting the Chinese diet, I have lost at least twenty pounds while staying in China. Mother in laws are definitely the ultimate equalizer most healthy men need.
Posted on: Fat Camp
February 21, 2011 at 11:50 PMMy experience with the Chinese diet is that most meat is in combination with bone. So, sucking on and chewing around the bone takes some time to actually get whatever meat there is into one's stomach. Such a process can take up a considerable amount of time. This is a good thing, it's too easy to eat large quantities of meat in the west.
Then we have deserts, where the Chinese varieties are comparatively less sweeter, as maybe they don't have the luxury of putting all that sugar into their foods us sugar addicts in a country like America often do. So things like texture and appearance of the food dominate over a thing like sweetness of taste.
When me and my Chinese brother-in-law went to Macau for a day trip on some special 'teaser'-type offer of a free meal at one of the casinos, when we finally cleared the customs port separating the mainland from Macau we were a bit hungry. My choice of a free meal was some kind of glazed eel Japanese rice dish, he chose some type of 'American' dish of what amounted to a lot of big bones with some small quantities of pork on them. He enjoyed his meal very much, but the dish had so much bone, I wonder how he or anyone could actually be full after eating that dish. But he was full and that's all that matters I guess. And my dish, well, it was mostly rice.
I think the Chinese have the right idea about meat, taken as a highlight will keep them trim and fit.
Posted on: Duty-free Products
February 21, 2011 at 10:35 PM你真幽默！ 也许它们不是香烟可是臭烟。。。实际上死烟。不过我的地方污染很严重，香烟比较小题大作。
Posted on: Duty-free Products
February 21, 2011 at 5:12 AM我上次从美国到中国来了二十多小时，真累死了。 如果朋友给我大清单我真觉得给她中指看看。
Posted on: The Fourth Tone
February 17, 2011 at 11:06 PM多谢
Posted on: Eating Idioms, Part 1
February 17, 2011 at 9:03 PMam going through and reviewing the animated movie 'the Incredibles' in Chinese, as I am showing this to my Chinese sixth graders in English. Stumbled upon:
"in a stunning turn of events, a superhero is being sued"
超能先生吃上官司
chao1neng2 xian1sheng5 chi1shang4 guan1si5
I am not to be trusted in translating anything in Chinese with certainty at my current level, but it appears that when one is sued in Chinese, one has to eat it!
Posted on: I love children!
February 17, 2011 at 12:02 PM哈哈！ 谢谢！！
Posted on: I love children!
February 17, 2011 at 7:42 AM白芋真不好！
Posted on: Eating Idioms, Part 3
February 26, 2011 at 4:34 AM有称呼中国的名字的老师怎么这么难找吗？ 好烦死。