User Comments - bodawei
bodawei
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 28, 2011 at 5:50 AMI don't know what 'low end' means but this dish has maybe a million variations all round China. For vegetarians there is 宫保豆腐 .. CHECK IT OUT! :)
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 28, 2011 at 4:52 AMOh, that's interesting .. almost certain they don't put soy sauce in it up north, and you don't get it out west. I must have had it in Hangzhou though .. And I find soy sauce is not a common ingredient in everything out west; good for me because I can't eat it.
Posted on: Cabbie Culture and Driving in China
March 27, 2011 at 3:31 PMso the 这个's might have been what upset hardwork2011? People seem to do a lot of uumming and aaahing and that is natural.
It's funny,, if you eliminate all such lubricants from speech language becomes .. (I'm searching for an adjective) .. alienating in some way.. Too much uumming and aaahing and it becomes a distraction. There is a happy medium.
Posted on: Cabbie Culture and Driving in China
March 27, 2011 at 1:08 PMHe was saying 这是。。 possibly, I heard it a few times, but haven't done a close listen.
Posted on: Cabbie Culture and Driving in China
March 27, 2011 at 12:34 PMGood work Jason, BST is back to its best. Love the interview.
Posted on: Cabbie Culture and Driving in China
March 27, 2011 at 11:34 AMTry as I might I never quite understand this kind of comment. Um.. er.. Give me the poor speech any time.
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 27, 2011 at 10:18 AMApologies to whoever wrote the dialogue but la jiao is a common ingredient; soy sauce is not. Sugar might be added in Zhejiang - maybe Connie wrote this. :)
I prefer a much simpler recipe fewer ingredients, no soy sauce or rice wine.
Posted on: Handsome Foreign Student
March 27, 2011 at 5:12 AMSometimes ChinesePod sacrifices a little authenticity for the purposes of language learning. It's not wrong but neither is it common.
Posted on: Handsome Foreign Student
March 27, 2011 at 5:10 AMRight tingyun, it is generally not used between friends because you would have another name for your friend. Or actually commenting on appearance maybe, maybe making some kind of gentle joke I think.
Posted on: Using a Cell Phone in China
March 28, 2011 at 7:05 AMYeah, I noted above that it is standard practice in Australia when you first get a sim to provide personal details (not so when you replace it - I did this a couple of months ago after losing my sim in transit and Optus just gave it to me no charge, no paperwork.) I'm guessing that this isn't in the fight terrorism plan in China. I can't see how it helps in Australia - sims can be freely exchanged so nothing ties you to a sim. (As was discovered in the infamous London bombing case where they tied that guy erroneously to his cousin's mobile I think it was?)