User Comments - houban

Posted on: The Final Show

I'll miss the insight that you have given to help us learn to speak Mandarin.  Good Luck

Posted on: Best Friends

I sometimes do a little "bonding" while listening to ChinesePod. LOL

What I have found amazing is that Lan Dai seems to be very popular in China.  In several of the nicer hotels I have stayed in the mini bars had Pabst Blue Ribbon in them.  That is one of the cheapest least popular american beers around.  I for one like Tsingtao.  I also like Harbin.

Ganbei!

Posted on: Food Regions of China

mala?  When my girlfriend and I were in Fushun having dinner with her sister and husband, they ordered a beef dish that had a dipping sauce that I swear was lava.  I had sweat over my eye brow just looking at it.  I got enough heat from it just barely touching the sauce and they were eating pieces of meat with the sauce just oozing over the meat. 

I've been there 3 times now for 8-10 days each time and I don't believe that I've eaten rice once.  Noodles with just about every meal. There doesn't seem to be anything that is traditionally breakfast, or traditionally lunch etc.

Posted on: Table for Three

I agree with hughchina in the fact that it might be just a tad fast for this level.  I appreciate the fact that we need to get into normal conversation pace, but I didn't really hear everything until the 2nd time of the second go round and that was because I knew what was coming.  This might be best though, I have mixed feelings...  Thanks CPod for keeping it interesting!

Posted on: Table for Three

kai wanxiao! New Year's eve here in the states is one of the busiest of the year for the restaurant business.

Posted on: The Perfect Sandwich

Though I knew it was made with love, I didn't realize until this lesson that a sweater my girlfriend gave to me last week was actually (aixin maoyi) 爱心 毛衣.  A red sweater with my name in english, hers in hanzi, the word LOVE and a little likeness of my dog, all in silver sequins.  I really felt special opening it and now I feel even more special knowing that there really is such a thing as a "Love sweater"

Posted on: Superstitions and Business Trip Tales

I have that Lan Dai is a very popular beer in China.  We here in the US only drink it because it is cheap here.  I much prefer the Chinese Tsing Tao, Harbin, Yan Jing,  and Auntie's Tiger and Singha.  I must make it a point to try the Bai Jiu on my next trip.

Posted on: To bag or not to bag?

Some stores here in the US will give you 5 or 10 cents credit if you use your own bag or return a paper bag that came from that store.

Posted on: To bag or not to bag?

ChinesePod goes green!!

 Though the guy was speaking a bit fast, I think it was good to hear this at what would be a normal speed.  I usually appreciate things being a little slower, but this was all vocabulary I already knew and hearing it faster was good for me.  I didn't understand him until the second time.  Thanks CPod.

Posted on: The Magic Word 让 (Ràng)

Thanks Tvan, Pinkjeans and Hwangd01.  I'm glad to know that it isn't only my ear, but most westerners as well. Perhaps after tying my tongue in a knot a few hundred times I'll get it.  :)