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Posted on: Reading Faces and Shanghai Architecture

svik,

Great contrasting photos.As they say, a picture paints a thousand words.Thanks for sharing your own photos.

Posted on: Come on up!

checkingoutchina,

Thanks.I knew I was being pretty lame [but couldn't resist it all the same after her 2 prior posts to mine ] so didn't go on to suggest that the next video shoot could be of her going up to her Huangshan cave in her phantom suit.I always thougt the phantoms cave was somewhere mysterious in Africa,but I obviously stand corrected.Huagshan seems a very apt spot,being a sacred mountain and all....

Posted on: Reading Faces and Shanghai Architecture

Both halves of this episode were fascinating.I'm wondering how widely held the beliefs on reading faces are in China and how firmly believed.Also, I couldn't quite work out what was meant by the end of the eyebrows being separated [did this refer to the shape at the end of the brows ?].

The section on how Shanghai architecture is evolving was even more interesting than I thought it would be.Some very good insights.Thanks for the nice photo caulkins [a good and interesting contrast].

Posted on: Street Food Buffet

On the topic of salads, and also street food.While it all looks delicious, many tourists have concerns about becoming bu4shu1fu with la1du4zi and are advised to eat in the better restaurants and avoid salads and street food.I would be interested in peoples opinion on this.Are there health inspectors that check on the street vendors? How does one judge which street vendors food is safer.Obviously being piping hot is a good start.

Posted on: Street Food Buffet

whoa,that was quick ! So you guys can read these posts within the 15minute edit time.Gee,you're working back on a Friday arvo;very impressive.I was obviously wrong about the transliteration then;go figure.Have a good weekend.Thanks Amber.

Posted on: Street Food Buffet

Amber,

Those 饼 bǐng look pretty good.How do you say maple syrup [and make sure it is the real deal ,and not that maple flavoured stuff ] in Mandarin ? I'm guessing some transliteration is involved with the maple part.How available is maple syrup in China,and what do the locals usually have on their pancakes? On my visit to Vancouver last year I made sure I got some of the real stuff.Delicious.

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 3: A Call for Innovation

ps I'm sure Jenny was asking John whether he could sing the Chinese National Anthem.While I'm pretty sure the joke that followed wasn't this,a potential joke could have been that it is easier said than sung.

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 3: A Call for Innovation

Sorry,

all I caught sounded like they were talking about whether John could speak or sing the Chinese national anthem,then maybe something about country anthem and whether this was easier said than done.Not sure,may be off track here,but it sounded like something along those lines.

Posted on: Come on up!

Thanks frances,

Good information.I only noticed actually when I got to the exercises and it marked me wrong for putting a second tone on lai and then I went back and realised that there was a neutral tone in the expansion section [only when I rolled over I think which I hadn't needed to before ].It's comforting to know that I may still be understood whether its 2nd or neutral at the end.Thanks again for your explanation.

Posted on: Come on up!

sebire,

So who won;the Chinese [with home ground advantage I might point out ] or the Aussies?