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jen_not_jenny

Posted on: Buying Sandals
July 21, 2010 at 1:50 AM

也有点可爱啊！哪，为了穿人字拖，脚一定要好看的。

Yě yǒudiǎn kěái a! Na, wèile chuān ren2zi4tuo1, jiǎo yīdìng yāo hǎokànde.

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM

Drier than apples? Hmmm...crunchy? Like a water chestnut or something? I'm having trouble imagining it.

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 20, 2010 at 10:34 AM

WHAT a freaky-looking fruit!!!

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 20, 2010 at 9:30 AM

Connie, JiaoJie, anyone...你看见了这样的水果呢？怎么叫它？Nǐ kànjiànle zhèyàngde shuǐguǒ ne? zènme jiào tā?

My apologies for my obsession with soursop, everyone...

Posted on: Catching a Train
July 20, 2010 at 7:24 AM

What a great story!! Trains in China are truly an excellent place to meet people, practice Chinese, and sometimes make real friends!

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM

I seriously cannot believe you've been here so long and only just tried mangosteen last night! Always something new in China....;) Glad it lived up to my hype! It reminds me just a tiny bit of another fruit that was completely foreign to me before I moved abroad, soursop. (nciku says it's 刺番荔枝 cìguǒfānlì but a bing image search with those characters revealed photos of quite broad spectrum of fruit, so I'm not certain that's an authoritative translation.) Both soursop and mangosteen have a sort of creamy, fresh tang to them. Very interesting in a fruit, to a Western palate at least!

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 14, 2010 at 5:36 AM

Aw...that link doesn't seem to work! @alexlexilu, the peel is so thick that it comes off quite easily, like a really thick-skinned orange. Then you scoop out the segments inside. Most segments have seeds, which I don't usually eat.

Posted on: Chinese Fruits
July 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM

You should definitely try 山竹! Tasty and very funky! They're pretty common in southern China, too. I've seen them here in Shanghai but not as often.

Posted on: Asking for the WiFi password
July 5, 2010 at 3:53 AM

You can also try 00000000 ( 八个零)

Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
July 3, 2010 at 4:09 AM

Gyah! I tried NOT to do it again last night...I even made two NICE comments about the quality of the first goal the Netherlands scored....and they STILL won! Perhaps I have no influence over these matters whatsoever.