User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: Difficult Cake Choices

haha, well I was ready to pack up and go home after my second response:

面包房 gets 4,230,000 hits

which I thought was game set and match that the term is used and that it's not particularly rare, but somehow you don't accept google as evidence? I'm still about mystified as to how you can reject that evidence...any comment? What do you make of those google hits then? Surely there aren't 4 million other foreign noobs debating it, or should that be 1 hundred thousand foreign noobs debating it, mentioning it 40 times, hehe?

Posted on: Difficult Cake Choices

here's one you missed while you were in Beijing:

Posted on: Difficult Cake Choices

Well I know you won't be impressed by this one that seems to be in Shanghai:

http://timg.ddmap.com/city/images/1234858536609_4.jpg

But heres a chain in Chengdu:

http://pica.nipic.com/2007-12-13/200712131612149_2.jpg

...with it's 10 addresses:

http://www.aibang.com/bizsearch/%E6%88%90%E9%83%BD_%E5%85%A8%E5%B8%82_%E5%96%9C%E6%82%A6%E9%9D%A2%E5%8C%85%E6%88%BF

...which goes to show the finger is mightier than the leg, boom boom

...tell ya what mate, I'm loving being on this side of the debate, hehe ;)

Posted on: Difficult Cake Choices

...and you know I'm gonna want evidence...that you've been down each street and alleyway....like signatures from the locals, or preferably selfies in front of the street signs...you could map it all out on google maps ....I don't think there are any other poddies putting there hands up to chip in mate, so looks like you're it. ;)

Posted on: Difficult Cake Choices

"Hey Baba, I went to Beijing for the weekend to research bakeries"

haha, I love that you're still on the job mate, out there battling the crowds in the name of research all for our sake. Jiayou! But I've gotta warn you I'm a hard task master....for a weekend's research I'd only accept you clearing a small village and declaring it mianbaofang free. As for a huge city like Beijing goodness knows how long it would take you to walk all it's streets, but I'll have you at it night and day mate, with no slacking off. And that will just be the start, there will still remain the rest of China. Then I'm quietly confident you'll find some and I'll want a mianbaofang map of China akin to your famous potato map of China. Jiayou!!!

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不用谢 ：）

Posted on: Your Mandarin Is Really Good!

Bingo....yeah top gun...yeah everyone has watched but sometimes u forget how long a movies been around

I was going to add that maybe its just me who wasnt getting it...seems u were on the ball the whole time

Posted on: Your Mandarin Is Really Good!

"I trust you would use a classy method of killing, such as swordfight"

haha, love it...of course. Reminds me of the princess bride

"I guess I counted on you not taking it seriously :-)"

no, it was just the grammar that tripped me up a bit [but I'm impressed with your Chinese progress all the same], and I was very impressed with the good natured way you took it esp when I thought you didn't realise I was trying to translate a movie quote into English....but I might be showing my age here and you may not have seen it....anyhow, a little challenge in there for you :)

Posted on: Difficult Cake Choices

"This one is disappointingly in English"

tingshuo it was meant to be in Chinese but they got stuck trying to find a word for bakery, so called in the Yanks, but after decided that the bakery was just going to cause too many problems anyway and scrapped it...;)

Posted on: Sales Part 2: Determining a Customer's Purchasing Power

haha, you're on a roll mate, above and below all good comments as usual. I agree with you about asking about the kids school and the reaction you'd think most would have though I was led to believe previously that Chinese are quite happy talking about how much they earn, though I realise that's not what's being suggested here. I guess it must depend on the context.