March 2012
3 posts
A Lovely Day ♔: Egg Drop Soup →
a-lovelyday:
Ingredients:
Ginger (optional)
Peas (optional)
Carrots (optional)
Corn (optional)
1 cup Chicken Broth
I egg
1tbsp Cornstarch
1tbsp Water
Instructions:
1. Dice up your ginger & wash your vegetables. I like to use the frozen vegetables that come with the peas, carrots, and diced…
Reminder: Linguistic history of the NYC Chinatowns →
linguistblog:
pre-1965 Immigration reform: mostly Taishanese 台山話, Yue topolect
after 1965: mostly Cantonese, from Hong Kong 廣州話 (Yue topolect)
in recent years, Mandarin 普通話 has becoming more and more dominant
Happy Leap Year Day!!!
This is unrelated but it only happens every 4 years!
Happy February 29th :)
February 2012
76 posts
Linguistics and language learning: The Chinese... →
linguistblog:
So let’s say you come across a Chinese surname, but only know it’s Xie. Also presumably it’s first tone, Xiē.
Now looking up the 百家姓 Bǎijiāxìng (despite called “Hundred Family Names”, it contains more than 500 actually) doesn’t help, because it has two names that are Xie, but they are both…
好人有好报
sudolaw:
“ good people are treated good in return “
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Read my Drama Review! :)
My drama review got put on their site! :D
http://www.jaynestars.com/news/review-curse-of-the-royal-harem-by-hayes/
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抌錢落鹹水海
cantoneseplease:
抌錢落鹹水海 (dum cheen lauk haam sui hoi), literally translated as ‘throwing/discarding one’s money into the salt water sea’. It seems to mean something along the lines of investing unwisely/carelessly. I’m assuming it relates to how things cannot grow in water with high salinity (take the Dead Sea, for instance).
Hong Kong's last Cantonese opera house saved →
nationaltrustwa:
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Canton
ingridrichter:
When the French Jesuits came to the port of Guangzhou, they mistook the name of the province for the name of the city. Hence the word “Canton” derives from the French version of the local pronunciation of Guangdong, “kahn-tohn.”
China A to Z by May-Lee Chai, 2007.
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Happy Valentines Day to my followers! 情人節快樂!
Anonymous asked: Kenneth Ma was actually the older brother to the Emporer
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Review for Curse of the Royal Harem
Written By: Lee Yee-Wah, Choi Shuk-yin Executive Producer: Chong Wai-Kin Location: Hong Kong Production Company: TVB Language: Cantonese No. of Episodes: 29 (overseas)
First Impression: YES! I love these types of Dramas! The theme song is really good too!
I was extremely excited for this drama because ancient ones like these interest me a lot. To be honest, I didn’t even see one...
