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Revolutionary ice cream! How do you even eat pizza with chopsticks? I introduced pizza to my gf's parents who had never tried it before and just showed them that they can use their hands. Went down well!
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Umm... Just pick it up? You can grab the end or you can fold if you must. It's a bit hard with our small smooth metal chopsticks, but not impossible. Should be easy with wooden ones.
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Aug 26, 2013 18:52
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I just use the plastic gloves that I wear to eat sandwiches when I eat pizza.
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Aug 26, 2013 19:51
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DontAskKant posted:eat ... pizza with chopsticks EDIT: systran posted:I just use the plastic gloves that I wear to eat sandwiches when I eat pizza. caberham posted:I do want to go to SE Asia, but I'm itching for Singapore. Yes, I know I'm boring ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 19:51
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Eating pizza with chopsticks is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
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Aug 26, 2013 23:29
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I've seen someone eating a baguette with chopsticks. That was pretty weird.
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Aug 27, 2013 00:28
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Magna Kaser posted:Eating pizza with chopsticks is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Once we got little wrapped individual slices of pizza at school for school lunch. There was some murmuring about how to eat this among the Koreans, then one put it on his rice bowl, chopped the pizza up with his spoon and mixed it together. All the other Koreans followed suit, while me and the other two western teachers were watching in stunned awe and eating ours with our hands.
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Aug 27, 2013 01:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxB-H6f3crY
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Aug 27, 2013 01:54
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Bloodnose posted:This is unacceptable and the primary reason I never eat at Cafe de Coral/Fairwood/Maxim. I'll never understand the Chinese way of stuffing a whole bony piece of meat in your mouth, sucking all the good stuff off and spitting the bone back out like a cartoon character. Why not just slice the meat off beforehand? A lot of the bad reviews I read about BBQ places here include the phrase "the meat just fell off the bone" as a con.
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Aug 27, 2013 01:59
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) and I feel like I'm in a Brendan Fraser movie.
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systran posted:I just use the plastic gloves that I wear to eat sandwiches when I eat pizza. I don't know if you're joking or not because some pizza places in Hong Kong actually give you cheap cellophane gloves.
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Aug 27, 2013 03:00
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Bloodnose posted:I don't know if you're joking or not because some pizza places in Hong Kong actually give you cheap cellophane gloves. They do this on the mainland, too
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Aug 27, 2013 03:02
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One time, on the internet, I saw a woman performing fellatio using chopsticks.
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Aug 27, 2013 03:09
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Technically you only need one chopstick for fellatio, just do it like how Chinese people eat corn on the cob and jam one stick in the middle to keep it steady.
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Aug 27, 2013 05:58
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Got my Z-visa. Leaving for Hong Kong International Airport tomorrow, and then from there, taking a ferry to Zhuhai.
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Rental Sting posted:Got my Z-visa. Leaving for Hong Kong International Airport tomorrow, and then from there, taking a ferry to Zhuhai. When you picked it up did you use chopsticks or cellophane gloves?
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Aug 29, 2013 04:52
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ZombieParts posted:When you picked it up did you use chopsticks or cellophane gloves? Chopsticks. They were attached to one of those little pen chains like at the bank.
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Aug 29, 2013 06:47
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Was the chain attached to a bowl, atop which the chopsticks were perched just so?
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Aug 29, 2013 07:09
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ReindeerF posted:Was the chain attached to a bowl, atop which the chopsticks were perched just so? I can't imagine any other arrangement.
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Aug 29, 2013 07:27
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ReindeerF posted:Was the chain attached to a bowl, atop which the chopsticks were perched just so? No you're thinking of Japan, in China there's an empty chopstick holder and a broken chain. The bowl is either stolen or in pieces on the floor.
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Aug 29, 2013 07:33
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I was going to guess "filled with cigarette butts with a turd on top" but that works.
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Aug 29, 2013 11:56
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One of the more Chinese things I have seen in four years was someone that took a huge turd, didn't flush it and instead put out their cigarette right in the middle of it. 
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Aug 29, 2013 12:00
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What are some English short stories that would be appropriate and interesting to 9th grade students in China? The school nixed my plan to have the students buy Kindles (breaks already constantly broken school rule on electronics) and now I have to make my own textbook and have it printed in the next few days. The only stories I can think of right now are by Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson, both of which I read in school and in retrospect they are pretty disturbing. I have three goals - cultural literacy, learning vocabulary through reading, and hopefully getting them interested in seeking out and reading cool books. They need to be more on the 7th grade reading level, though.
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Aug 29, 2013 12:11
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Sherlock Holmes. Dickens' short stories. Some Orwell. Lord of the Flies.
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Aug 29, 2013 12:33
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Get them to read the whole of the Hobbit, even if it takes a couple months.
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Aug 29, 2013 13:09
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Jack London. He's gone over pretty well with my students that age. You might need to rewrite some of his archaic phrasing out though.
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Aug 29, 2013 13:21
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The Racist Tree
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Aug 29, 2013 13:22
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Visa chat - the State Regulations relating to the new E/E Laws which were introduced in July are going to come out on September 1st and folk are wondering what's going down. http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/45086  Not much new in there but I must admit that I am surprised that the CRB Check rules in Beijing are not actually written down at this time. Seriously. GuestBob fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Aug 29, 2013 13:26
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bad day posted:What are some English short stories that would be appropriate and interesting to 9th grade students in China? The school nixed my plan to have the students buy Kindles (breaks already constantly broken school rule on electronics) and now I have to make my own textbook and have it printed in the next few days. Not short stories, but I've done the following with middle school students, though it is slow and takes a while, and I created reader's guides for all of them a few years back - Charlotte's Web - Holes - When You Reach Me - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Walk Two Moons Walk Two Moons was a bit slow, but had the good ol' American road trip in it, so that's something. Holes was the biggest hit, and then we watched the movie afterwards and all the girls loved Zero. When You Reach Me was a little confusing, as I had to spend 20 minutes explaining A Wrinkle in Time, but after that it was smooth sailing, though they do mock the Chinese accent somewhere in the middle which was annoying as it was completely unnecessary
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Aug 29, 2013 13:37
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I don't see it laid out in the OP - what are the vaccinations and shots and whatever else I need if I am coming on a Z-visa?
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Aug 29, 2013 13:51
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BadAstronaut posted:I don't see it laid out in the OP - what are the vaccinations and shots and whatever else I need if I am coming on a Z-visa? Nothing is required. If you're yoda then you should probably get Hep vaccinations. Fun fact, two weeks after I first came to China there was an outbreak of plague in a village 90 kilometers from where I was working so, you know, maybe bring something to ward off miasma too just to be safe.
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Aug 29, 2013 13:56
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Customs question. In my week over here, I've been gifted a ton of stuff. Some really cool, some are books in Mandarin, and other depict animals loving at the zoo. I've only got so much room, so I'm planning on taking home a cool china tea set, a string of loving pearls (?!?! who gifts that to some schlub who came to your city?) and a bottle of that liquor you toast with out of tiny stemmed glasses. And I'm bringing home some smokes with cool designs on the packages to give out to my smoking buddies (as an aside, I dig the fact that everywhere here is the smoking section. Way to be, China. Now I know what it was like when my grandpa was growing up). I know what the smokes cost because I bought them, and the jingly baoding balls my wife wanted. How the hell will I declare the value of poo poo I have no idea what it cost? I've never had to declare anything at customs before, because every time I went to Canada, I just rented the liquor and beer. Am I going to get slammed hard by the tax man? And if so, should I just set up a table on some corner in Shijiazhaung and award the first person to chug the bottle of hooch a prize of a tea set and pearls?
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Aug 29, 2013 14:06
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Nobody cares about your baijiu and horse cock porn. Wear the pearls though.
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Aug 29, 2013 14:09
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I'm gonna go ahead and un-recommend Walk Two Moons. It is full of old and unusual slang that will confuse the students and frustrate the teacher. Dealing with words like "chickabiddy" is just a gigantic waste of time. The characters speak like a woman in her 50s would imagine a young girl speaks. The story is complex and meandering and some of the characters speak in dialect which again is a huge waste of time unless you're preparing students to head to a generic native american reservation. Science fiction is a bad idea in general because it relies on an unspoken understanding of what's normal, which is difficult across cultures. I like stuff about being a teenager because they can relate to that.
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Aug 29, 2013 14:09
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GuestBob posted:Nobody cares about your baijiu and horse cock porn. gently caress you. I'd need the matching earrings to pull of the look.
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Eat This Glob posted:I'd need the matching earrings to pull of the look. If they are genuine (ha!) then they're going to be the only thing which would in any way threaten your allowances and you can get round that by wearing them. Seriously. Make it happen.
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Eat This Glob posted:Customs question. In my week over here, I've been gifted a ton of stuff. Some really cool, some are books in Mandarin, and other depict animals loving at the zoo. I've only got so much room, so I'm planning on taking home a cool china tea set, a string of loving pearls (?!?! who gifts that to some schlub who came to your city?) and a bottle of that liquor you toast with out of tiny stemmed glasses. And I'm bringing home some smokes with cool designs on the packages to give out to my smoking buddies (as an aside, I dig the fact that everywhere here is the smoking section. Way to be, China. Now I know what it was like when my grandpa was growing up). Don't worry about any of that stuff. Returning to the US you are allowed 200 cigs (one carton), 1L of booze, and $800 tax/duty free. So you can claim whatever you want on the value and be fine as long as its under $800, which unless you're a high roller, it is.
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Arglebargle III posted:I'm gonna go ahead and un-recommend Walk Two Moons. It is full of old and unusual slang that will confuse the students and frustrate the teacher. Dealing with words like "chickabiddy" is just a gigantic waste of time. The characters speak like a woman in her 50s would imagine a young girl speaks. The story is complex and meandering and some of the characters speak in dialect which again is a huge waste of time unless you're preparing students to head to a generic native american reservation. Got ya, but... Arglebargle III posted:I like stuff about being a teenager because they can relate to that. Enter Walk Two Moons. Once you teach them that there are a bunch of nonsensical words it is doable. It's not great, not NEARLY as good as Holes, Charlotte's Web, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, but it's doable. I get books for free and I make the best of them. I'd be interested in your opinion what's good, because once we finish Liar and Spy (it's been a bit up and down) I have nothing else planned.
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SB35 posted:Don't worry about any of that stuff. Returning to the US you are allowed 200 cigs (one carton), 1L of booze, and $800 tax/duty free. So you can claim whatever you want on the value and be fine as long as its under $800, which unless you're a high roller, it is. Ah, cool. It's a 500 ml bottle, so I can run across the street to the liquor/cigarette store and buy five more small 100ml bottles for gifts at 3 rmb or whatever. Thanks, that's handy. And the fact that I'm asking about leaving behind cool poo poo as to not have to pay fees I can't afford should tell you that I'm not a high roller. I'm not even a penny slot player. As a followup, if it's less than $800, do I say I have nothing to declare, or do I go through the "I have some stuff I'm bringing into the country" line? GuestBob posted:If they are genuine (ha!) then they're going to be the only thing which would in any way threaten your allowances and you can get round that by wearing them. Seriously. Make it happen. They're genuine as hell! I got a laminated certificate of authenticity in a real pleather "Jewelry China" box, I'll have you know. I'd rock 'em all the way back home, but the only way I could make that happen is with some fishing line or something. I can't even wrap 'em around my wrist twice. Although I could get a quick-and-dirty prince albert here or something and just let it hang. I got my hep b/c vaccine. What could go wrong?
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Eat This Glob posted:I'd rock 'em all the way back home, but the only way I could make that happen is with some fishing line or something. You are aware that pearls need to be worn regularly if they are to keep their lustre.
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I don't know if it'd be kosher in China, but Harrison Bergeron pretty well meets what you're looking for. Funny, vivid imagery, simple language - so far as I can remember - and has a few vocabulary words that will make your students look them up, but will still seem familiar enough.
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