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Posted on: Food Flavors, Shanghai Style
May 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM

I didn't realize how many dishes we have which are made from equally "unmentionable" animal parts until I went Googling to find yours. What's in a name?

Posted on: Food Flavors, Shanghai Style
May 16, 2010 at 12:41 AM

Ya Jen, hot-dogs are really tasty. We have them here too! ;-) So, how was the meat prepared? Braised maybe?... like number 6 shown here: http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/none/10-grossest-foods-singapore-484694

As they say, when it comes to pork, you can eat everything but the squeal!

Posted on: Food Flavors, Shanghai Style
May 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM

I'd prefer it if they made wider use of the IPA character palate. I'm having a difficult time relating the written words with the sounds of the words they are meant to represent. See Catherine's post from lesson 4: http://chinesepod.com/lessons/talking-to-the-neighbors#comment-175976

Posted on: Calling People Names
April 30, 2010 at 11:37 PM

I agree. I'm not really trying to learn to speak Shanghainese, but I do enjoy comparing it with Mandarin and hope to be able to at least recognize a few Shanghainese phrases by the end of the series. Having some more vocabulary would be handy. Maybe C-Pod will add a Supplementary Vocab. section to the .pdf files. (I like the intro. too)

Posted on: Lovey-Dovey Terminology
April 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM

"Who's the baby-daddy?" the question that made ears bleed the world over following Anna Nicole Smith's death.

Posted on: F1 in China
April 18, 2010 at 10:07 PM

Haha, I was too chicken to say that Changye. I wonder if that's who Buemi was really aiming at when he lobbed his front tire over the spectator's fence--landed in the cheap seats, unfortunately.

Hi suxiaoya, I was really hoping they'd get some hail like they did earlier in the week. See how they handle that! ;-) But maybe you can convince Marco to post some pics.

Posted on: F1 in China
April 17, 2010 at 8:18 PM

So, I like watching multi-million dollar cars driven by millionaires go flying into the gravel traps. I suppose that makes me a bad person? ;-)

Posted on: F1 in China
April 16, 2010 at 10:31 PM

Chinese GP -- This weekend!! Should be a good one. Maybe even some rain.

Posted on: New Dashboard, Scarlett and Teachers!
April 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM

Your Irish joke reminds me of what happened to Sir Hiss in the Disney's animated Robin Hood.

Posted on: Blog Posts, API's, Announcements and Gloria!
March 29, 2010 at 11:02 PM

"... sophisticated system for computer-assisted linguistic analysis of target material ..." = Wow!! I think they have one of those on the Enterprise. Congrats. John!