Ask a chinese guy!

[Rerun]

Through personal observation, when out walking my Golden Retriever, orientals (I assume most are Chinese), seem to be more fearful of my dog than caucasions. I have only once had an oriental family come up and ask if they can pet him. Whats with that?

P.S. IMO, my dog isn't at all scary looking.

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Through personal observation, when out walking my Golden Retriever, orientals (I assume most are Chinese), seem to be more fearful of my dog than caucasions. I have only once had an oriental family come up and ask if they can pet him. Whats with that?

P.S. IMO, my dog isn't at all scary looking.

I've noticed that too. Asians seem fearful of dogs on a much more frequent occurrence than whiteys.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Through personal observation, when out walking my Golden Retriever, orientals (I assume most are Chinese), seem to be more fearful of my dog than caucasions. I have only once had an oriental family come up and ask if they can pet him. Whats with that?

P.S. IMO, my dog isn't at all scary looking.

Probably because you refer to them as orientals.

I kid.

Asians are usually fearful of dogs, particularly the older generation. As to why that is, probably because they have never had dogs before. The younger generation, not so much. At least not in Canada. Even in china, the trend is moving towards more dog ownership amoung the younger crowd.

[jammies]

"Never get too close to an animal you might eat." That's the explanation I got from an ex-girlfriend who is Vietnamese.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

What's with Asians and pools/swimming. They generally seem to like to swim but are terrible at it, slow as molasses and can't grasp the whole fast, medium, slow lane? I'll be swimming in a fast lane and some asian will just jump in and start doing some weird dog, breast crawl thing at a 10th of the speed. Is it just "lanes" in general that the group has issues with? Thus translating into any method of locomotion?

Swimming isn't generally a big activity to most asians. At least I don't know of anyone's mom or dad taking up swimming as a routine exercise.

However, most of my asian friends are good swimmers (couple of them have rescued people, one rescued a white guy ) , so I can only speak of what I see. I can't speak on people from the mainland or the rest of asia, though I have noticed that mainlanders tend to do everything weirdly, or their way.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally Posted by jammies

"Never get too close to an animal you might eat." That's the explanation I got from an ex-girlfriend who is Vietnamese.

Strangly, is this also something a few asians believe. Some asians think that if you have eaten an animal (like a dog), any dog you encounter in the future will know you have done this and will take the opportunity to bite you.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

What's with Asians and pools/swimming. They generally seem to like to swim but are terrible at it, slow as molasses and can't grasp the whole fast, medium, slow lane? I'll be swimming in a fast lane and some asian will just jump in and start doing some weird dog, breast crawl thing at a 10th of the speed. Is it just "lanes" in general that the group has issues with? Thus translating into any method of locomotion?

I suspect it might be to due the fact that we just don't believe in lanes.

(Seriously, go to China in rush hour. In Guangzhou, I managed to see 3 lanes become 6)

[Hack&Lube]

All the women in my mother's family are fearful of dogs and most medium to large animals. It doesn't seem like they grew up with any pets around so they are fearful of other creatures.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

Swimming isn't generally a big activity to most asians. At least I don't know of anyone's mom or dad taking up swimming as a routine exercise.

However, most of my asian friends are good swimmers (couple of them have rescued people, one rescued a white guy ) , so I can only speak of what I see. I can't speak on people from the mainland or the rest of asia, though I have noticed that mainlanders tend to do everything weirdly, or their way.

Didn't mainlanders used try to illegally get into Hong Kong from China by swimming down there? I'm not good with my geography, so I'm not sure how far they had to swim, but I'd assume it's a pretty crazy swim. My mom told me she has a friend who got her foot bitten off by a shark. Now that's intense.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

All the women in my mother's family are fearful of dogs and most medium to large animals. It doesn't seem like they grew up with any pets around so they are fearful of other creatures.

cue dog's on the menu comment........

[Fire]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

Strangly, is this also something a few asians believe. Some asians think that if you have eaten an animal (like a dog), any dog you encounter in the future will know you have done this and will take the opportunity to bite you.

I better watch out for cows. I have it coming.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

cue dog's on the menu comment........

There was a restaurant in Edmonton a few years back that was busted serving coyote. Officially, they were charged with selling uninspected meat. The people ordering it, knew what it was apparently and paid a lot for it.

Getting inspected dog meat in Canada is an expensive thing to do, that is why I think it's funny when people are scared that a restaurant is going to try and sneak dog meat into their pork dish. Why would they waste money like that?

I worked with a guy from China and he said that it was a lot like lamb and that the meat "stinks".

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

Strangly, is this also something a few asians believe. Some asians think that if you have eaten an animal (like a dog), any dog you encounter in the future will know you have done this and will take the opportunity to bite you.

That is way too funny!

[Ben_in_Canada]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Getting inspected dog meat in Canada is an expensive thing to do, that is why I think it's funny when people are scared that a restaurant is going to try and sneak dog meat into their pork dish. Why would they waste money like that?

I don't think people are concerned about the 'inspected meat' getting substituted, more what ever pet was wandering the back alley of the resturant.....

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Ben_in_Canada

I don't think people are concerned about the 'inspected meat' getting substituted, more what ever pet was wandering the back alley of the resturant.....

There was a Greek restaurant that butchered uninspected lamb in the basement in my home town. Soooo went the rumor anyway. And the frozen coyote carcass in the freezer at a Chinese restaurant in Edmonton. (true story)

Edit: link

http://www.animaladvocates.com/watchdog.pl?md=read;id=1968

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Psytic

Yea I was talking about both. The rare beef such as in beef and black bean sauce and also the beef balls in Pho. Both have a different texture than if I just chopped up steak and cooked it. I was wondering the prep process to get the texture and chew in both.

I've been experimenting with this. A few things I've found:

1) the meat needs to be sliced thinly and uniformly perpedicular to the grain.

2) marinate the meat in a mixture incluing corn starch for 20 minutes before use.

3) the meat should be cooked in a seperate pan, at a hot temperature in pre-heated oil. Only cook it very briefly and, pull the meat off rarer than you want. Add the meat to the rest of the dish at the very end. Essentially just toss it in the already prepared dish, allow it to cook a little bit more (as previously stated it is rarer than you want it). Then serve.

EDIT: I am not actually Asian myself, and would love to hear additional tips.

[Kybosh]

Why do they have such bizarre names for the universities and colleges in China? Stuff like "The Sichuan University for Coal Sciences, Civil Engineering and Agriculture" or "Xi'an College of Forestry and Pottery".

[Bertuzzied]

Can you pass the chinese college entrance exam?

[annasuave]

What's with the cats in asian restaurants? You know, the cat with one paw up in the air? Why are some of them big and some of them small? Why do some places have several? Why do some of them have eyes that move? How come sometimes its a piggy bank, and sometimes it's just a cat? Will anyone be offended if I touch it?

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by annasuave

What's with the cats in asian restaurants? You know, the cat with one paw up in the air? Why are some of them big and some of them small? Why do some places have several? Why do some of them have eyes that move? How come sometimes its a piggy bank, and sometimes it's just a cat? Will anyone be offended if I touch it?

I actaully have one in my living room. I'm not Asian in any way, but I thought it was cute. I got it at Daiso in Vancouver when I was shopping with my sister-in-law.

http://www.daisocanada.com/