User Comments - RJ
RJ
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 8, 2011 at 6:50 PMYou didnt really eat one of those eggs did you? Maybe you have been in China too long.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 8, 2011 at 6:49 PM叶落归根 - return to your roots. The Chinese never truly emigrate, they always dream of returning to their roots.
棍棒之下出孝子
棍棒出孝子
恩养无义儿
Be strict with your children and you will be rewarded, spoil him and you will recieve nothing in return.
Or something like this.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 8, 2011 at 11:41 AMAn interview with a 警察 would be great. Would love to hear their insights.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 8, 2011 at 11:35 AMI think maybe your definition is too narrow. To me, anything like jiaozi or xiao long bao, that is one step away from being a pot sticker, is a pot sticker. If you are looking for similar items in the US you need to check the menu for pot stickers. Some are ok, some are horrible. I tend not to like the baozi type of bread like outer. Never thought of any of them as breakfast food, but that is just me.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 8, 2011 at 10:11 AMSorry to hear Australia was left out. No "pot stickers" on the barbie I guess. Truth be told, I dont like the name either, but they are one of my favorite eats. You can eat them in Oz right? They do have them, its just that nobody knows what they are called?
Posted on: Chinese Baijiu and the Best of the Worst
February 7, 2011 at 9:48 PMBaijiu tastes a bit like diesel fuel. Thank God I didnt discover it when I was still young and dumb enough to enter into a contest, which baijiu always seems to be. SH doesnt have a big drinking culture, at least from what I have seen, but down south everyone drinks and the movers and shakers are rated by their maximum consumption. There is the 1 liter guy and the 1.5 liter guty etc. Oh, and definitely not just guys. Most Shanghainese drink 1/2 a beer and turn all red, not so down south, or up north either for that matter.
Posted on: Chinese Baijiu and the Best of the Worst
February 7, 2011 at 9:41 PM12 and dead. Hmmm, started late did you?
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 7, 2011 at 11:20 AMHi bodawei,
always thought pot-sticker was quite self-explanatory. Where's the mystery? "Why not use the Chinese name?" Fine with me, in fact I think all names (people places and things) should be whatever their name is. Why translate at all? Unfortunately nobody consulted me when they decided to transliterate, or translate, all names of things. I suppose it started because people usually have problems pronouncing foreign names. So what do you call pot stickers in Australia? I am on the edge of my seat :-)
Posted on: The Various Guises of "Until"
January 31, 2011 at 10:33 AMHi Rich,
maybe its you that has changed? Perhaps some of the QW bits seem trivial to you now only because your Chinese has improved so much. You do live in China, right? I have found QW to be incredibly useful. I still need it, I still enjoy it. Granted, some episodes are better than others, but overall its done well. Very well.
And every time something like this comes up there are those that want to teach only in Chinese. Showing off their Chinese muscles. Now that "I" can understand it, why not teach in all Chinese? I believe this is a little known subset of MPS. If you can handle all Chinese - the Chinese world is your oyster, we are done here, move on.
Posted on: Tea Refill
February 9, 2011 at 9:49 AMIn Guangdong everyone "washes" their chopsticks and bowls with tea before beginning . A large bowl is usually set on the table into which the used tea is collected and later removed by staff. I find the whole ritual a waste of time and you usually end up with a table cloth soaked with tea. I figured it was free otherwise everyone wouldnt be splashing it about like that. Even bowls that are sealed in plastic get the ritual cleaning.