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Post by jefe on Aug 5, 2005 11:39:10 GMT -5
Coffee was not that popular in HK before 2000. It simply was not a coffee drinking culture, but cha chaan tengs touted their coffee with their nai cha.
But Starbucks changed that starting 5 years ago. I live in North Point (not the central business or trendy district, but mix of office and residential) and there are 4 places that serve cappucino within 1 block of my building, including a Starbucks. The fast food places and a few chaan teng now serve individually brewed coffee. The traditional chaa chaan teng coffee is no longer as popular.
No matter where you live in HK, you are within 1-2 blocks of a cha chaan teng that serves local style coffee and nai cha. But certain districts has many expresso bars. So even if coffee is not universally popular, it is still ubiquitous.
I have started rating places by their cappucino index -- How many places within 2-3 blocks serve cappucino.
When I was in the PHils. , condensed milk is also popular to add to coffee and tea -- otherwise the powdered creamer version. Perhaps it is popular as fresh milk is hard to come by. condensed milk is canned, can be stored unopened for very long periods and opened just before usage.
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Post by jefe on Aug 4, 2005 6:26:24 GMT -5
I've never tried coffee with condensed milk before.. usually in HK we make tea with condensed milk and too much sugar and its heavenly! Maybe I'll try it when I go home. Ai-ya, Helen. most of the cha chaan teng's "heung nung taan dou gah feh" is flavoured with condensed milk (fa nai), same as the local milk tea. If you have had coffee at a cha chaan teng, then it was probably flavoured with condensed milk (fa nai). But in SE Asia, esp. Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, they tend to use sweetened condensed milk (leen nai).
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Post by jefe on Aug 4, 2005 6:23:21 GMT -5
I take a cup of extra strong coffee and add 3 more shots of expresso. Unfortunately this works too slowly. Maybe I should drop in caffeine tablets as well.
I only drink these about 2X a day. The rest of the day I just take regular coffee.
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Post by jefe on May 24, 2006 5:47:14 GMT -5
Claudia,
I saw your PM, but I have a question.
Normally, we transliterate a name (from Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) into latin letters based on the sound of the word (or according to some standard transliteration method). This presumes that the original name already exists in the original language and characters for that name have already been determined.
I had thought that you already had a Korean name in Chinese characters, but you were not sure of the meaning of those characters.
On the other hand, a WESTERN or non-East Asian name which does not have a corresponding representation in Chinese characters, can be transliterated into Chinese characters in various ways, usually based on the phonetic sound (but in other ways as well).
This does not apply to the name Kyu-ree, as, presumably, this name already had a Korean origin written in Chinese characters.
According to your PM, it seems that you want us to treat "Kyu-ree" as a non-Asian name, and transliterate it back into Chinese characters with Korean pronunciation. This is quite unusual, if not bizarre. Are you saying that Kyu-ree was never originally a Korean name with a Chinese character representation, or perhaps you are saying that it should have had a Chinese character form, but you simply do not know what it is and are tying to find combinations of Chinese characters that would fit the Korean pronunication?
If it is the latter, then it is very difficult, as so many characters could be chosen to satisfy that, all equally plausible. We might arbitrarily pick one (or at best, pick one that sounds nice) but it still might be entirely different from your original name.
You have no idea about your Korean name, besides what it sounds like? Even so, there must already be an existing Chinese character representation, even if you do not know what it is, and anything we pick is likely to be wrong. Can you ask a relative?
Of course, once you know the characters, we can help explain the meaning to you.
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Post by jefe on May 23, 2006 9:55:32 GMT -5
You can PM me. I'll give it a shot.
Do you want URL's that can look up characters for you? Actually, any online language translator should be able to translate individual words.
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Post by jefe on Nov 8, 2004 6:15:16 GMT -5
the food in the US is toooo rich in carbs, fats, and other nutrients. So is the food in other places, esp. Asia. India and China are experiencing obesity epidemics only a few years behind the USA. Filipinos are getting fat at an alarming rate also. You call these nutrients?
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Post by jefe on Nov 8, 2004 6:13:36 GMT -5
Americans do not like to walk or climb stairs, do not like to take public transportation, etc.
I noticed that New Yorkers (and to a lesser extent, residents of Boston and San Francisco) are actually THINNER than their suburban and esp. midwestern and southern cousins.
Americans (outside of NY and the east coast big cities and *maybe* San Francisco) also like to pig out at all you can eat affairs, and get back in their car, drive home and watch TV or play on their computer.
When I was living in NY, I had no car and could not afford to eat all that I could Ditto here in HK. But when I visit the suburbs in the USA, or people in the South. DANG, they are quite porky.
I bet if 61% of Americans are overweight, I would not be surprised if 80% of Bush Supporters and 45% of Kerry supporters were. I wonder if anyone did an analysis of voting patterns correlated with obesity.
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Post by jefe on Aug 3, 2004 5:29:41 GMT -5
I am flying to Singapore for the weekend. Does anyone require this to be checked out?
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Post by jefe on Jun 15, 2004 22:32:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the URL. But it doesn't explain exactly why mules are sterile and what sexual behavior they have. I really would like to know. Do they simply not produce sperm and ovum? Do they not ejaculate or ovulate? Is it in the hormones (i.e., no sex drive and therefore no sexual response)?
You know, I think that in my childhood, someone had used the mule argument to explain why interracial sex and hybrid children are BAD -- they are somehow not suitable for reproduction. After all, if horses and donkeys can interbreed, they could not exactly be different species. But they produce offspring that cannot reproduce themselves. I forgot who told me that interracial children are like mules (must have been some people I encountered in the segregationalist south of my childhood).
Also, as donkeys and horses can interbreed, but produce sterile children, they must have been the same species at one point in the past. Where in the evolutionary development did they develop this idiosyncracy when they interbreed?
I also read last week about how most of the human male population share just a few genetically distinct Y chromosones and how each succeeding male population will have lower fertility, until females will not be able to reproduce with normal males. They have already developed technology where DNA from two eggs can be recombined to form a genetically distinct female.
If only it was proven one day that the secret to the future of the human race is accelerated breeding of interracial males with relatively rare Y chromosones needed to maintain male fertility. Or will it be proven that males are not even needed?
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Post by jefe on Jun 15, 2004 21:32:48 GMT -5
Ever since I was a little kid, I always wondered about this. Since they are the product of a horse and a donkey, they are infertile so cannot reproduce, so what do they do? Can they reproduce in vitro or something, or can they be cloned?
Since mules appeared in Hong Kong this past week, I have started to wonder again.
Is the effect on them similar to the effect on infertile humans (who may not be affected at all in their sexual activity). Or is it similar to eunuchs?
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Post by jefe on Jan 30, 2004 3:45:46 GMT -5
I think Some people here are just trying to rationalize the effect of racism in the US. As I see things, most of the people you are describing as such were born and raised in the US. And most of the topics are brought up in the Politics, Society and Family forum. I can definitely identify the people you are referring to and can honestly say they’re just venting their own personal experience. Nothing is wrong with that. But then again, this is an international forum and the majority of the people here does not feel any self-pity at all. Oh yeah we’re having so much fun in a very intellectual and wholesome way. And the discussions are healthy enough not to aim personal attack against each other. And since you don’t personally know the people here, don’t ever generalize such narrow observation . The truth is nobody can bring a good site down. This forum is like a phoenix. It was almost brought down by some kind of a “plaque” but with the camaraderie of all the members, I can honestly say it’s back to business as usual So what site are you frequenting by the way And cheer up dude..."you are what you think" ;D I agree that it is not a problem of self-pity, but a venue to share experiences. Until I came here, I had only encountered people that thought that there was nothing wrong for being mistaken for different races, nothing wrong with being ostracized by many of your relatives or treated differently from others in group that have an ethnic, cultural or national element to them. Nothing wrong with people challenging you on your ethnic background. Also, living in different societies without having a link to a majority or minority culture in that society can be stressful.
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Post by jefe on Jan 30, 2004 3:31:50 GMT -5
Hong Kong never sleeps either~! Gotta represent Asiaaaaaaaaaaa hehehe ;D As someone who lived over 7 years in NYC and over 8 years in HK, but grew up in neither, I sleep even less in HK than I used to in NY. What does that mean?
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Post by jefe on May 6, 2006 15:13:42 GMT -5
remember people used to post in paragraphs. I have tried to stop that.
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Post by jefe on Nov 24, 2004 7:02:37 GMT -5
Just noticed that all top 20 posters are now deities. Are there any deities not in the top 20?
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Post by jefe on Aug 23, 2004 5:20:10 GMT -5
Congrats to jefe being deity after all this time . Thanks. I just hit it over a week ago. I was hoping to share deityship with Thursday, who is blocked in China. I was just in Qingdao (Tsingtao) last week, and it is frustrating not being able to log onto the forum there.
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