User Comments - waiguoren
waiguoren
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 28, 2011 at 4:43 AMA Chinese friend of mine tells me this dish is 'good for your skin' because it 'makes it more white'....
Posted on: Handsome Foreign Student
March 27, 2011 at 6:15 AMI get what John means. When people ask me where I'm from in Chinese, they usually have no problem deciphering my '澳大利亚'. It doesn't get much easier.
As for your question...I have no idea!
Posted on: Handsome Foreign Student
March 27, 2011 at 6:10 AMI remember walking down the street once in Qingdao, when 2 girls kept yelling out behind me '帅哥'. They probably assumed I couldn't speak/understand Chinese until I turned around and said '你说得对'。
Yeah!
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
March 16, 2011 at 7:29 AMIt was in Qingdao actually. But I was in Lijiang once (before going to 乐山) and asked for 锅贴 and they were literally dumpling's (饺子) that had been fried instead of boiled...like your above post mentions, they were probably commonaly referred to as 煎饺, not my idea of a genuine 锅贴. I wish I had taken a photo of them now...
It must be pretty hard avoid eating wheat! But this conversation has got me in the mood - Dumplings for tea tonight!
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
March 15, 2011 at 9:57 AMIn my experience, 锅贴 is like an elongated fried 饺子...and they're delicious!
I used to go to the same place every weekend to buy them. They were cooked in a huge tray, golden brown on the bottom, but the top were pretty much still 'steamed'.
Posted on: Rice First
March 15, 2011 at 9:03 AMSorry RJ, couldn't disagree with you more that 'Quick warm beer is sometimes better than slow cold beer'. I would rather go without!
Also, early on in my China adventures, I didn't know the word for bottle opener (开瓶器）until I found them selling them on the street for 5 mao, from then on me and my colleagues always referred to a bottle opener as ‘5毛’。
As for opening a bottle with chopsticks, well, I never got to that stage. I'd usually just end up snapping the chopstick in half.
Quite impressive!
Posted on: Rice First
March 14, 2011 at 12:05 PMI order 盖浇饭 (gàijiāofàn) by default...
Posted on: Rice First
March 14, 2011 at 11:59 AMI found the beer in China is generally un-refrigerated (read: warm), which I find quite disgusting!
I remember on several occasions asking my Chinese colleagues to ask the waiter/waitress to put in the freezer, and bring it out when the food comes...
Posted on: English Teaching Jobs in China
March 14, 2011 at 11:53 AMI'm one of those people that caught the 'teaching bug' whilst in China. I was teaching Marketing (with a few English classes thrown in for good measure) at a private training centre within in a University (come to think of it now, I'm not sure what it really was) that had an Australian curriculum that sent students abroad. The pay wasn't much, but I was well-looked after in regard to accommodation, airfares, visas, etc and had a really great time, both teaching and living in China.
I'm now back in Australia doing a Dip. Ed. and should be a fully qualified teacher by the end of the year! Unfortunately though, since I've been back, my Chinese studies have taken a back seat to all my Uni stuff...
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 28, 2011 at 4:45 AMThere is a lesson somewhere on 宫保鸡丁. Definitely agree with you about the variation, but don't you mean when it's good, it's ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!