User Comments - matthewrudy

Posted on: Ice Cream Run

KFC does a sundae for 5kuai

Ikea does a cone for 1 kuai

Taking my girlfriend to KFC for a strawberry sundae is quite a treat.

Posted on: Tea Refill

If you're eating on the street

they often wont bring you a waste water bowl

you just chuck it on the street.

And, yes.

The shrink wrapped dishes are like that because the restaurant outsources their dish washing.

With hong kong rents so high, do you want to waste space in your restaurant for washing so many dishes?

Posted on: Sleepy

I imagined this as a couple lying in bed,

but the sound of the door closing at the end ruined it a little.

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hong Kong

I know this is an old lesson, but I added it because of the Hong Kong connection.

I've been here for a year and a half, and never had trolley served dim sum.

But out in rural Guangdong (I've spent a while near Maoming... a big city, but kind of 土) trolleys are still the way its done.

Particular recommendation for the Gaozhou Hotel (in Gaozhou) as a traditional cantonese yum cha experience.

In Hong Kong most dim sum is a morning affair, but out there its an evening event.

Go out, eat all night, drinking tea, and grabbing stuff off the trolleys.

Typically costs 100kuai for 5 or 6 people.

Posted on: Rice First

In Hong Kong and Guangdong we always get our rice with the meal.

Had never considered that this wouldn't happen.

Even in Hunan or Sichuan restaurants.

Perhaps its because I'm a gwei lo,

or maybe its a regional thing.

Posted on: Going on a Picnic

This and many other traditional english words I reckon have come from Cantonese rather than Mandarin.

As such the cantonese pronunciation of 三明治

("sammingjee"-ish) sounds a bit less different than the mandarin.

Posted on: I wet the bed!

I really liked this one.

Very cute.

And easy for an elementary listener to understand.

Thanks.

Posted on: Transferring Money

As a Hong Kong resident I have a limit of 20,000 RMB per day that I can exchange between HKD and RMB.

I believe this works either way round.

For most chinese this would be almost a year's worth of wages.

People cross the border from Shenzhen with crazy amounts of RMB.

Its not hard to find a shop in Hong Kong that will take your suitcase of 100 yuan notes, and convert them to a more international currency.

Posted on: Chinese Fruits

I think a good way to describe yang mei is "like a big raspberry with much smaller cells" At least that's how I felt when I had them in Guangzhou.

Posted on: That's Not Your Food

鱼香茄子 is the best!