User Comments - sfrrr

Posted on: Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Cupping and Scraping

You guys have the pulse of the people--or at least of your students. I've been waiting for this podcast for months, years, my entire life. And just in time for me to return to the SF Bay Area's finest TM doctor. Thanks,

Posted on: Eating Tofu

I hate to sound like a bitch here, but what is Russian doing in a Chinese lesson? Is there a translation for the comments in cyrillic?

Posted on: 旧金山

Pulosm--I have a rather different impression of the Bay Area. When I got here (Berkeley) 40-some years ago, I lived for a semester in a non-studenty house that was a block away from a well-established, popular Chinese church. Even then, they had two services--one in English and one in Mandarin.

In SF right now--and this includes all three Chinatowns--I speak Mandarin Chinese to waiters, customers, sales people, etc and they always ansdwer me back in Mandarin. The only exception is a waitress at a popular dim sum restaurant who speaks Mandarin to me, but her Cantonese accent is so heavy, I can't understand her. (She seems to understand me, though.)

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hong Kong

Where to start?

*German chicken soup. Chicken feet are as much an ingredient in chicken soup as the backs, necks, asnd more popular parts. They just aren't served at the table. Usually.

My mother always put chicken feet in her Jewish-style chicken soup--she said they gave the soup good mouth feel and the dissolved cartilage added a lot of protein. She used to give me whast was of of the feet when she drained the soup.

I have zhou (or xi3fan4) almost everyday for breakfast. I usually top it with last night's leftovers, if they're highly spiced. Sometimes I sprinkle on this Chinese fuzz made of pork that we call fu. (lots of fat; lots of salt; lots of protein.) Or preserved turnips, or Japanese sour plums, or...

I've never understood how people can refuse to eat something because it looks like what it is. You're already eating a dead animal so what's the surprise? Same for people who hate, say, mayonnaise and so grill you on whether there is mayonnaise in the sauce, even though they can't see it. I have a friend who hates mayo and fll in love with a mayonnaise cake that a friend makes--no one told him it had mayo in it. As soon as we told him, he stopped eating it. (This tirade is not directed at people with allergies.)

Posted on: Seoul

John--thanks for the link. I'll listen to it tonight. and I'm looking forward the next Korean podcasts.

Posted on: Seoul

I wish this were an intermediate or upper intermediate lesson. I'd like to learn something about Korea, but an elementary lesson isn't long enough. How about something about the political, economic, or cultural history of Korea?

Posted on: 理想女人

Rainie Yang has a song called something like Perfect Lover. Popular 2 or 3 years ago, I think. 

Posted on: Billiards

I love this lesson. I'm an avid pool player and love knowing the lingo in Mandarin. Thanks.

Posted on: I don't want it!

Oh, and is there any way to download the curent podcast's illustration for album art instead of the ChinesePod woman?

Posted on: I don't want it!

Is this a redo of an earlier lesson? I seem to recall this subject (??)