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Not actual China but Sweden with Chinese characteristics. I just spent some weeks doing research in a small Swedish city. Since I had like two hours off every day (hello, STEM) I ate out a lot. This town had one small Chinese restaurant that seemed empty from the outside. I found it was actually packed with Chinese people in the back. It was a good sign that I would get real Chinese food and I have the following observations: - Took 30 minutes to get the attention of anyone working there (even after talking to them face to face like five times) - I pointed to the menu and ordered a "crispy chicken". The lady told me angrily that they had no photo of the crispy chicken. I said that it was OK, I wanted to have it anyways. This became a longer philosophical argument - since they didn't have a photo, I could not possibly want it as I could not know what it was. The dish was described in detail Swedish and Chinese text. - The lady took away the chop sticks from my table without asking (or making eye contact) and brought a fork. I asked for chopsticks. She seemed annoyed. No one in Scandinavia uses a fork for Asian food unless they're 500 years old. - ordered a "Folkeøl" ("folk beer"). The lady repeated "foo ka ool a?" and I confirmed, yes - "FOLKE ØL" while pointing to the menu. She comes back with a coke (foo ka koo la). There was no coca cola on the menu. - At one point I had a table outside and asked for an ash tray, as there were none - except one in the corner for the employees which was FILLED with old butts. The waitress dumped the butts on the patio and gave me the ashtray. - The kid of the owner (I presume) was hanging out in the kitchen. He was like 4 years old and SCREAMING his lungs off angrily for no reason. No one cared. This is a city that thrives on tourism, by the way. Food was amazing though, went back many times.
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lizard_phunk posted:- At one point I had a table outside and asked for an ash tray, as there were none - except one in the corner for the employees which was FILLED with old butts. The waitress dumped the butts on the patio and gave me the ashtray. Ash /spit on the floor or in a nearby potted plant. lizard_phunk posted:- The kid of the owner (I presume) was hanging out in the kitchen. He was like 4 years old and SCREAMING his lungs off angrily for no reason. No one cared. 4 yo kids scream and throw tantrums for no reason all the time, something would be wrong if they didn't.
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lizard_phunk posted:- ordered a "Folkeøl" ("folk beer"). The lady repeated "foo ka ool a?" and I confirmed, yes - "FOLKE ØL" while pointing to the menu. She comes back with a coke (foo ka koo la). There was no coca cola on the menu. This cracked me up.
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I got sun burned, so I was laying at home slathered in aloe vera gel and the AC and fan blowing on me, and the Mongol sends me a message that she wants to meet me for 30 minutes and she will bring some fruit. I say sure, but not lasting much longer because I want to watch some TV shows. She shows up with her usual huge box of chopped fruit and I immediately laugh at her. Her company thought it would be awesome to give all the workers (and require them to wear) these goofy laptop backpacks that hold their contracts and big envelopes and stuff. They got the cheap-quality generic bags from a generic Chinese factory, and she had found out that when she sweats the bag bleeds dye. Her entire back was a mishmash of grays and blues on her white shirt. On the front of her shirt she had spilled her lunch at noon, as well as slipped with her pen and got ink lines on it. Her stockings were ripped, and her skirt had a bunch of dust all over the side of it. She looked like she had taken her entire outfit out of the trash and put it on for work. She had this "I just got into a fight/wreck" look to her clothes that was undeniably hilarious. I made sure to tell her this. I also owned her by pointing at her food stains and swiping her nose when she looked down. We ate fruit and then she said she wanted a nap. I told her my bed was clean and she can't put her homeless-looking rear end on my comforter. I rolled out my yoga mat onto the floor and tossed her a pillow and resumed watching TV shows on my computer. After about 5 minutes I hear "Can... can you lay with me, sir?" I go lay down with her and she asks me hug her. Eventually we had sex (yoga mat + sex = my knee skin is burned off). It was pretty good this time, except she kept pinching my face cheeks and I don't know why. She would demand eye contact and then would smoosh my cheeks. I have learned to stop questioning her, but I did anyway. "Because I want to look at your eyes! Look at them, sir. You look." "I can't see my drat eyes, they're in my head!" Afterwards I showed her my cheap Google Cardboard headset with Cosmic Rollercoaster, a simple VR tour of most of the planets in the solar system. She was shocked by it and then became quiet. Her: "Sir... this is real?" Me: "What do you mean?" Her: "This is what it really looks like outside? Is this a real camera?" Me: "LOL, no! It's an app. The planets are look like that, but it's an app." Her: "I don't see Buddha." Me: "Oh?" Her: "I don't see him. Does it mean Buddha is not real? Where is he?" Me: "Buddha isn't flying around in space. The energy dissolved upon passing away after reaching nirvana." Her: "How do you know?" Me: "Shut up and enjoy the ride!" She stayed like 4 hours and I had to force her to leave because I wanted to go to the supermarket.
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gently caress you. Buddha is flying around in space. ~*~Space Buddha~*~
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See u space buddha~~
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Fauxtool posted:china did invent kimchi after all I wonder how Koreans feel about the fact that they've only had kimchi in its current form for like 200 years old since the two main ingredients aren't native plants.
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Stink Billyums posted:I wonder how Koreans feel about the fact that they've only had kimchi in its current form for like 200 years old since the two main ingredients aren't native plants. Fake news.
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God I love that the mongol was just distraught at the absence of a giant glowing space buddha. Haier, she seems genuinely nice, be nice to her.
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Stink Billyums posted:I wonder how Koreans feel about the fact that they've only had kimchi in its current form for like 200 years old since the two main ingredients aren't native plants. Okay I just spent half an hour looking at journal articles written by Koreans where they claim chili peppers are actually native to Korea so the Columbian exchange doesn't even factor in. Should've known.
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Steakandchips posted:I wonder if a lot of Face related discussion happened afterwards... Such as "it's not my fault I rode into you, you were going too slow!". Watching the way his forehead goes into the window .. I doubt there was much face left afterwards, metaphorical or otherwise
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Stink Billyums posted:Okay I just spent half an hour looking at journal articles written by Koreans where they claim chili peppers are actually native to Korea so the Columbian exchange doesn't even factor in. link please edit: is this it? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352618114000043 quote:Conflicts of interest edit: This has to be some kind of joke. Like those "can a computer generated paper get published in a peer-reviewed journal" stunts. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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Thank u to this thread for teaching me that many a mickle makes a mucklewaitwhatno posted:"Many a mickle makes a muckle." (1) 800 characters; (2) no poetry; (3] do not reveal any personal informatio SLOSifl posted:
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VideoTapir posted:link please That and others by more or less the same authors. But they appear in the Journal of Ethnic Foods, which is owned by the Korean Food Research Institute, of which the World Institute of Kimchi is a part. If it were anywhere else it would seem like a joke but I 100% believe that Korean food scientists would start up a journal to promote nationalistic food propaganda.
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lizard_phunk posted:Not actual China but Sweden with Chinese characteristics. The poo poo service would make me never eat here, no matter how good the food.
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Stink Billyums posted:I wonder how Koreans feel about the fact that they've only had kimchi in its current form for like 200 years old since the two main ingredients aren't native plants. I know chili peppers are one but what's the other?
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Stink Billyums posted:That and others by more or less the same authors. But they appear in the Journal of Ethnic Foods, which is owned by the Korean Food Research Institute, of which the World Institute of Kimchi is a part. If it were anywhere else it would seem like a joke but I 100% believe that Korean food scientists would start up a journal to promote nationalistic food propaganda. Three of the four authors listed in that journal article work at the Korean Food Research Institute. One lists his e-mail @kfri.re.kr. Coincidentally, that guy is also the editor in chief of the journal lol
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CIGNX posted:I know chili peppers are one but what's the other? Chinese cabbage
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Haier posted:Her: "Sir... this is real?" I love your stories because of these weird conversations and interactions, "where is space buddha" is propably the funniest thing I've heard all week. Just the idea of someone looking through a telescope and wondering if they can see space buddha from here is just incredible.
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Son of Rodney posted:I love your stories because of these weird conversations and interactions, "where is space buddha" is propably the funniest thing I've heard all week. Just the idea of someone looking through a telescope and wondering if they can see space buddha from here is just incredible. Probably one of the lesser weird things that organized religion brought forth.
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Her surprise at no flying buddha doesn't really surprise me at all, didn't Yuri Gagaran make a comment about the lack of god on his first trip?
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Sammus posted:Her surprise at no flying buddha doesn't really surprise me at all, didn't Yuri Gagaran make a comment about the lack of god on his first trip? "I see no Gods up here" might be the most profound thing ever said by a human, considering the situation. "Where is space buddha" is a close second.
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Why were you saying it in norwegian?
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And so it was that the enlightened buddha died, entering the eternal bliss of nirvana, which just coincidently was located in a stable orbit around the sun, just behind uranus.
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Double Monocle posted:"I see no Gods up here" might be the most profound thing ever said by a human, considering the situation. It's disputed as to whether Gagarin said that, or Nikita Khrushchev.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Thank u to this thread for teaching me that many a mickle makes a muckle lol
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Fojar38 posted:surely this time we will make it in the chinese market we've definitely figured out this issue
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i want to see how tesla's autopilot handles chinese drivers
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How's shanghai Disney going? https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g308272-d10383031-Reviews-Shanghai_Disneyland-Shanghai.html poorly understaffed, way too many people, line cutting, spitting and deficating in public, people reselling fast passes on a black market, and vendors selling fake Mickey Mouse ears while you wait in line for three hours Sounds like it's going as to be expected
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The Great Autismo! posted:we've definitely figured out this issue for a while a lot of companies thought that jerking off the government was the answer but the answer is that even if they temporarily let you in it's just to swindle you and steal your tech so you shouldn't bother lots of companies seem to be catching up to this as of late
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The Great Autismo! posted:How's shanghai Disney going? yeah alll that poo poo kinda sucks but hey attendance exceeded expectations!  also shanghai pirates ride is really good
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paddle) had a 75 minute line. When I went to the bathroom I went through a gate into 'Disneytown' and needed my entry ticket to get back in. We were with five of us. My girlfriend had held the five tickets but gave each of us a ticket back after we entered. Turns out I had my daughter's ticket. When you enter, I found out, a picture is taken and then stored attached to the ticket. I could not see I had my daughter's ticket, but they could see it. They could of course also see on their computer that I had entered at the same time and they could see my picture. I also had receipts from a purchase inside the park. But could I get back into the park? "No. Wrong ticket. Procedure. Let me explain to you sir. For your safety. For everybody's safety." When I walked through the gate anyway, they tried to physically block me, but I kept circling and I walked on smiling anyway, inviting them to follow along. I had no other option, my phone was out and I had arranged to meet everybody at 5pm at a cafeteria across from 'the flying elephants'. One manager (Mr. Travis) and a security guard followed me all the way to the cafeteria where I had arranged to meet the family. Then they complained they had to wait so long (cause the lines are so long the family did not arrive at 5). Then they called a senior manager (Mr. Jonathan). He called more security after trying to explain to me that he understood what had happened with the ticket, but that procedure was the important thing. In the end there were six security guys and two managers surrounding happy little me, sipping hot chocolate, insisting I needed to go to 'guest services'. But I just refused, meaning they'd have to take my chocolate drink and carry me. Luckily China is a very non-violent country, especially if you remain kind and reasonable and smile happily. I don't blame those security guys of course. But management of this place needs some serious re-education. No wonder the lines are so long. All the security guys are busy surrounding innocent elderly foreign visitors sipping hot chocolate. Finally the family appeared. The idea was still that we should go to guest services to get my ticket looked at by the machine, but by now management had lost its enthusiasm for pursuit of idiocy and just wished all of use much additional enjoyment. Jonathan even took our picture. So I had a very interesting, exciting and educational experience even without going on a ride :-)
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gently caress SNEEP posted:yeah alll that poo poo kinda sucks but hey attendance exceeded expectations! just go to youtube and watch the ride there, it's free and you don't have to deal with anything wrt the mainland if you paid me 10,000 rmb to take my wife and child to shanghai disneyland for the day, and said everything would be free of cost, i still would not do it
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Fojar38 posted:surely this time we will make it in the chinese market finally the sequel to Beijing Jeep.
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So what's up with Chinese restaurants in America being staffed to the gills with angry, rude people? People always used to tell me, "Oh, you AMERICANS! You want your waiter to talk to you about your life story and always be smiling and asking how you are! You don't understand other peoples' cultures!" No, I just don't want people to be straight up loving rude to me. Anyways, in Taiwan, even cheapo, hole-in-the-wall places are far more pleasant. So I don't know if it's a "culture" thing? big time bisexual posted:finally the sequel to Beijing Jeep. But that's from 1989. Didn't Jeep open a factory a few years ago in China? mrbotus fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Stink Billyums posted:Okay I just spent half an hour looking at journal articles written by Koreans where they claim chili peppers are actually native to Korea so the Columbian exchange doesn't even factor in. At least one goon has been kicked out of the kimchi museum for asking why the "ancient" kimchi has peppers in it. One of my favorite Korea things was when I saw some article about hangeul (the Korean alphabet) winning the "world's best alphabet" award for the third year in a row. I immediately had thousands of questions about all this but looked up the organization giving out this award and, surprise, it was Korean! Who could have imagined. nickmeister posted:So what's up with Chinese restaurants in America being staffed to the gills with angry, rude people? People always used to tell me, "Oh, you AMERICANS! You want your waiter to talk to you about your life story and always be smiling and asking how you are! You don't understand other peoples' cultures!" It's pretty weird. The staff at most restaurants I go to in China are fine. I haven't encountered the dickwads in US Chinese places very often either.
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