Ask a chinese guy!

[Tron_fdc]

Okay, maybe this is geared more towards Koreans, but what barbershop do they ALL go to and how did he get such a huge monopoly on one hairstyle?

[Tower]

nm

[Table 5]

Where can I find chinese fonts online? Ive been trying to find some forever with no luck!!!

Please help oh wise chinese dude!

[Canada 02]

Originally posted by Table 5@Aug 26 2005, 03:47 PM
Where can I find chinese fonts online? Ive been trying to find some forever with no luck!!!

Please help oh wise chinese dude!

Chinese for office applications

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=EN

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally posted by Table 5@Aug 26 2005, 09:47 PM
Where can I find chinese fonts online? Ive been trying to find some forever with no luck!!!

Please help oh wise chinese dude!

I'm sorry Table 5. I have failed you. I am unable to answer this question. I will now drown my face in a tub of chicken to atone for my sins.

[snowdude]

Originally posted by TheyCallMeBruce+Aug 29 2005, 08:58 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheyCallMeBruce @ Aug 29 2005, 08:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Table 5@Aug 26 2005, 09:47 PM
Where can I find chinese fonts online? Ive been trying to find some forever with no luck!!!

Please help oh wise chinese dude!

I'm sorry Table 5. I have failed you. I am unable to answer this question. I will now drown my face in a tub of chicken to atone for my sins. [/b][/quote]
I think i saw that movie in film studies last year........and no, i'm not kidding.

[RT14]

Originally posted by notoepik@Aug 25 2005, 12:24 PM
I have heard of pickled pigs feet (gross by the way) but what do you do with a chicken foot?

Believe it or not, there is actually a little meat on the leg and toes. Disturbing as that sounds. Other horrifying dishes I've come across since arriving here two long years ago include:
-Pig Brain
-Snake and shots of snake blood
-Duck feet as well
-Fish heads and eyes
-dog and cat

Everything I've listed here can be ordered off a menu in restaurants. There's more too, just can't think of any off the top of my head.

Johnny Flames is right about mainlander's having some hatred for Japanese. More-so for the textbook issue than the lack of remorse, but both add to it.

I don't agree with Johnny on the fact that Chinese drivers aren't worse (on average, and generally with the older or female population) than American or Canadian drivers. They are just as bad in China as they are in Canada, but it's not totally their fault. The fact is that if the police in China would enforce any kind of traffic laws what-so-ever, the people would learn the rules of the road and some manners. Getting in a taxi here is like going on a roller coaster ride: weaving in and out of traffic, everybody is cutting everybody off so no one really gets road rage, you see cars driving on sidewalks (not kidding), police with their lights flashing 24-7 so you never know that the heck they are doing and would never know if they were pulling you over or not, cars running red lights like there is no tomorrow while 50 people are trying to scurry across. It's absolute insanity. I'm sure a if a Canadian cop came here, he'd have a heart attack.

The "horking" on sidewalks and in public places is nasty, and it's got to stop, but when I first came here with a buddy of mine he was doing the same thing. So every culture has their spitters. It's just not frowned upon here, which I think it should be. I don't know how many times I've been out walking and stepped on something slimy.

I just had my Chinese girlfriend take the www.alllooksame.com test and she got 5/18, so don't feel to bad if you didn't do good either. She always tells me she can tell the difference between those three countries but now I know the truth.

[RT14]

I have three questions:

1. Why does Chinese food in Canada taste so much better than Chinese food in China? (There's some good stuff here, but most is just disturbing) and,

2. Why don't they have all the same food here as a Chinese restaurant in Canada would have? ie. eggrolls, springrolls, schezhuan(sp?) beef, special chow mein, etc.
The closest I've found to chow mein is choa mian pian, but it's not really even close.

2. Why don't they have fortune cookies in China?

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by RT14@Sep 27 2005, 02:21 AM
I have three questions:

1. Why does Chinese food in Canada taste so much better than Chinese food in China?# (There's some good stuff here, but most is just disturbing) and,

2. Why don't they have all the same food here as a Chinese restaurant in Canada would have?# ie. eggrolls, springrolls, schezhuan(sp?) beef, special chow mein, etc.
The closest I've found to chow mein is choa mian pian, but it's not really even close.#

2. Why don't they have fortune cookies in China?

1. The Chinese Food in Canada is typically regarded as not authentic Chinese. They are dumbed down dishes for Western consumption...or in many cases they were completely invented here by immigrants trying to appeal to the Western palatte. IE: Ginger Beef was invented in Calgary and you won't even find it in Chinese menus in Eastern Canada. When my friend got off the plane from Toronto, the first thing he requested was beer and ginger beef You probably just didn't encounter the more traditional dishes because they are harder to know and only exist on the complex Chinese menu. If you order fish for example, you will indeed get the whole thing including the head and eyes. If you order Crab, you get the actual shell and the brain, etc. can be eaten. A common dim sum food and also in Vietnamese Pho noodles is tripe - cow stomach lining. High in surface area!

2. Because again, none of what you listed is really considered Chinese food by the Chinese. Maybe some form of roll or chow mein as in some noodle dish but most of what you find don't really exist in real Chinese cuisine. Egg rolls and spring rolls are never ordered by Chinese as the course of a meal. They are really more like appetizers that you have during dim sum. And China is a huge country. Regional cuisine is different in every part. Beijing is northern Chinese mainly. If you want food closer to what you are used to in Canada, try Southern China like the Guangzou or Hong Kong areas because that's mostly where the Chinese immigrants came from originally so their food spread first. Something like "Schezhuan" is actually a south-central province in China, it's a prefix to show where the food came from to be able to differentiate regional foods. Chinese people don't all look the same so why should the food, there are millions of varities, mostly regionally distinct. Would you expect to eat good Cajun food in Nebraska?

3. Fortune Cookies are not Chinese. Like many of the answers to 1. and 2. They are actually post WWII inventions of American restaurants copied off a Japanese snack. According to Wiki, they are indeed non-existant in China except for a few places that sell them as "Genuine American Fortune Cookies".

[RT14]

Originally posted by Hack&Lube@Sep 27 2005, 03:34 AM
If you want food closer to what you are used to in Canada, try Southern China like the Guangzou or Hong Kong areas because that's mostly where the Chinese immigrants came from originally so their food spread first.

Well, considering I'm in a modern city of 10 million people right in between Hong Kong and Guangzhou, you would think that I could find some here. I can't explain to my girlfriend well enough what it is I'm looking for because I don't know how they make some of the stuff in Canada. Oh well, she's getting good at cooking western dishes now.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by RT14@Sep 27 2005, 04:51 AM
Well, considering I'm in a modern city of 10 million people right in between Hong Kong and Guangzhou, you would think that I could find some here.# I can't explain to my girlfriend# well enough what it is I'm looking for because I don't know how they make some of the stuff in Canada.# Oh well, she's getting good at cooking western dishes now.

The usual answer is corn starch, oil, and MSG
I would say that in Shenzhen you would find similar dishes but nothing like what you have in Canada. Chow mein should be easy enough to make though. For spring rolls, I would go try dim sum. You'll probably find them there.

[sketchyt]

I have a theory on why Chinese people are bad drivers. As for the argument that all Chinese women and older Chinese people are bad drivers, I think that can be applied to almost every ethnicity. Insert sexist/ageist accusations here.

Anyways, many Chinese people are bad drivers because many Chinese people in Canada are immigrants. In China, you do not grow up with cars like you would in Canada. In Hong Kong, for example, public transportation (especially the subway) is the main method of transportation. I lived in Hong Kong for four months and never stepped foot into a car... not even a taxi.

So when Chinese people come to North America, the concept of driving a car is not nearly advanced as people born around a culture of driving. When a Chinese immigrant comes to North America, the concepts of yielding/merging/signalling is literally a completely new one.

Not helping matters, I watched my cousins (horrific drivers those two) come to Calgary from Hong Kong and somehow passed their drivers exam. Why? A Chinese friend of theirs is a instructor/examiner. I've seen them drive, no way should they be allowed to even press the remote button to open my garage door. I don't think they even took drivers-ed.

Are all Chinese drivers bad drivers? No, I'd like to think I'm a good driver who thinks the middle finger is a legitmate signalling device. But if I see a Civic swathed in Hello Kitty paraphenlia, I watch the road a little more carefully.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by sketchyt@Sep 27 2005, 05:48 PM
Not helping matters, I watched my cousins (horrific drivers those two) come to Calgary from Hong Kong and somehow passed their drivers exam. Why? A Chinese friend of theirs is a instructor/examiner. I've seen them drive, no way should they be allowed to even press the remote button to open my garage door. I don't think they even took drivers-ed.

That's probably the most important point. These immigrant drivers usually get chinese driving instructors and evaluators from a few of those driving schools who notoriously let people pass easily. You know which ones I'm talking about.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Wow, this thing is still alive??

[redmile04]

http://www.alllooksame.com/asians01/016a.jpg

Whats with the eyes? I have noticed this on many asians

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Here is one for you Bruce (awesome thread BTW)

Who is Da Shan (??)?
________
Web shows

[There is no G in MacInnis]

Why do Chinese (others as well) pick English names the can't pronounce? Like Rick.

Also why do call themselves in the child version, like Rickie, Tommy etc.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by Fozzie_DeBear@Sep 28 2005, 03:13 PM
Here is one for you Bruce (awesome thread BTW)

Who is Da Shan (大山)?

I have no idea who that is, is it nickname for some celebrity? Like The Rock? Chinese names are usually 3 characters and Japanese ones are 4. Because that just says (Dai) Big (Shan) Mountain.

See, the first one is the symbol for big, it looks like a man with outstretched arms. The second one is a mountain of 3 hills with the peak in the middle.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by There is no G in MacInnis@Sep 28 2005, 05:24 PM
Why do Chinese (others as well) pick English names the can't pronounce? Like Rick.

Also why do call themselves in the child version, like Rickie, Tommy etc.

That's a good question, I don't know why they choose more affectionate/feminine versions of names. They also tend to pick names which end in "son"...not like your average English names which end in that suffix though (which in Norse or Gaelic cultures or something originally indicated that you were the son of somebody...like Ericsson is the son of Eric).

But they pick wierd names like Rickson or Jobson or Danson or something like that.

[icarus]

Where can I get some panda earmuffs?