goldboilermark posted:

LOL

in all seriousness, i hear this all the time. "i want to attend ___(fill in name)___ because i can study there and i want to learn at ___(fill in name)__ university." so i told one of the kids "ok, you can't just say that. would you tell a girl you want her to be your girlfriend because she is a girl, and you want a girl for a girlfriend?" and he goes "...why not?"

the best ever response to a question like this, though, was this kid i was working with who is in the US HS system now, no idea how he's doing, but we were doing interview practice and i asked him "if you could go anywhere in the world, where would you want to travel and what makes that place special?" and he literally told me "i would go to a place i want to go to, because this place is a place i would like to travel there, so if i could go to that place, then i would go there because i want to go there" and i actually did this

Big Willy Style posted:

Old mate above is maybe my favourite TV personality.

simplefish posted:

They were indeed until recently like North Korea Best Korea was fifty years ago

ranbo das posted:

To be fair if shark fin soup wasn't horrific in the way fins are harvested, I'd try it.

Zzulu posted:

i just realized i have no idea who the leader of china is

For the record, it is Xi Jinping



i have learned something today

ElGroucho posted:

China: Land of Imagination and Original Thought

MeatwadIsGod posted:

My girlfriend's mom was born in Shanghai in the early 1950s. When she was a kid, she had a pet bunny. Like, explicitly a pet and not just some wild rabbit that hung around. One day, during the famine, she came home to find her pet inside - cooked and on the dinner table.

Peanut President posted:

We do this with pet rabbits when they get old here in the good ol USA. Hell, my cousin had a pet cow. I asked him how it was one day, the answer: "delicious".

DetroitVectorSmooth posted:

Remember, it's not Eleven Jinping.

Tuxedo Gin posted:

okay where can i find subtitled episodes of this cause i just watched some unsubbed one on youtube and it is loving hilarious. goony long haired white dude came on to massive applause. some girl is in like a monster lizardcat suit

Bloodnose posted:

If that's 非誠勿擾, they had a problem with none of the popular (with the audience) girls ever agreeing to go on a date, because if they did they would of course not be on the dating show anymore that was making them famous and successful and stuff.

I do not like that show so I'm not sure how they ever solved that problem.1

Groovelord Neato posted:

It's tasteless and the fins are only there for texture. Gordon Ramsey became furious when he tried it.

hailthefish posted:

All the effort invested in making fake eggs, surprised there's not more of a market for fake shark fin. I mean.. 'lumpy globs of flavorless collagen' can't be that difficult.

Tarkus posted:

For people talking about Chinese 'cuisine' you have to remember that while most cultures the world over have foods that they find distasteful, gross or simply taboo, the Chinese have none of these problems. If it is alive or came from something living and is not toxic, they will try their best to make it edible. Think of any animal except for perhaps Pekinese dogs and the Chinese will eat it.

This isn't to say that all their food is bad, in fact I like quite a bit of it. But the reason you only see Chinese in a truly Chinese restaurant is because their food is outside of the rest of world's tastes.

spankmeister posted:

Bloodnose posted:

You are massively overgeneralizing. There are definitely major regional taboos. For example, everyone but the Cantonese find eating cat distasteful, and Manchus are famously opposed to dog-eating (it's basically the only tangible example of Manchu culture left since they've been hanified to hell and back).

Bloodnose posted:

You are massively overgeneralizing. There are definitely major regional taboos. For example, everyone but the Cantonese find eating cat distasteful, and Manchus are famously opposed to dog-eating (it's basically the only tangible example of Manchu culture left since they've been hanified to hell and back).

pentyne posted:

Given the PRC's predilection for cultural homogeneity, is this something they're trying to stamp out?

Bloodnose posted:

American Chinese food is loving delicious (when prepared well by talented people with good ingredients) and real Chinese food is often poo poo (the overwhelming majority of it is prepared by talentless people with the shittiest ingredients).

Like if you ever see the storeroom of a restaurant in China, it will be mostly filled with boxes stacked to the ceiling full of something called 味精, literally meaning "the essence of flavor." In America we know this marvelous ingredient as monosodium glutamate. It's a quick and cheap way to make poo poo taste like Chinese food.

Hear me now and believe me later: anyone who says that Chinese food from China is inherently superior to American Chinese food is a douchey hipster trying to show off how worldly he/she is. Like any cuisine anywhere on earth, it is mostly lovely stuff full of calories whose purpose is to be palatable enough that people will buy it when they feel hungry.

Xelkelvos posted:

There's also the Muslim Chinese minority who refuse to eat Pork (basically the staple meat Chinese Cuisine) and replace it with Lamb.

goldboilermark posted:

are you trying to be a douchy-hipster showing off how wordly you are caberham

Bloodnose posted:

thanks for having my back gbm

goldboilermark posted:

are you trying to be a douchy-hipster showing off how worldly you are caberham

caberham posted:

It's my culture please respect it

Anidav posted:

I would love to live in China for a few months. Sounds fun.

goldboilermark posted:

but really i was just asking, i like chinese food in china more than the west, but i still like western chinese food. i don't really think they are the same but i think both can be good, i just prefer it here more

Davincie posted:

here's a translated episode of what i assume is the same dating show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFCWwKq2wg

Davincie posted:

here's a translated episode of what i assume is the same dating show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFCWwKq2wg

goldboilermark posted:

LOL

in all seriousness, i hear this all the time. "i want to attend ___(fill in name)___ because i can study there and i want to learn at ___(fill in name)__ university." so i told one of the kids "ok, you can't just say that. would you tell a girl you want her to be your girlfriend because she is a girl, and you want a girl for a girlfriend?" and he goes "...why not?"

the best ever response to a question like this, though, was this kid i was working with who is in the US HS system now, no idea how he's doing, but we were doing interview practice and i asked him "if you could go anywhere in the world, where would you want to travel and what makes that place special?" and he literally told me "i would go to a place i want to go to, because this place is a place i would like to travel there, so if i could go to that place, then i would go there because i want to go there" and i actually did this

Bloodnose posted:

You are massively overgeneralizing. There are definitely major regional taboos. For example, everyone but the Cantonese find eating cat distasteful, and Manchus are famously opposed to dog-eating (it's basically the only tangible example of Manchu culture left since they've been hanified to hell and back).

Zzulu posted:

i just realized i have no idea who the leader of china is

For the record, it is Xi Jinping



i have learned something today

Wikipedia posted:

From 1998 to 2002, he studied Marxist philosophy and ideological education in an "on-the-job" postgraduate programme at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, again at Tsinghua University, and obtained a Doctor of Law (LLD) degree, which was a degree covering fields of law, politics, management, and revolutionary history.[15] However, commentators have questioned this qualification, pointing out a series of problems with it. The Sunday Times of London commissioned scholars to read the unpublished PhD thesis who noted that the content has little to do with law, appears to contain no original research, and reads like a collection of quotes from existing published works.[16] Writer Joe Chung compared Xi's works with those of other scholars and found that numerous passages had been copied from previously published works or works published around the same time as Xi's. In one case, citations were shown to have been copied from another work, including misspellings and punctuation errors in that previously published work. Based on this research, Chung raised the question of whether Xi plagiarised his PhD.[17] The Sunday Times article also noted the poor esteem of his previous qualifications and speculated that the PhD was invented by a committee in order to improve Xi's public image.[citation needed]

Wikipedia posted:

From 1975 to 1979, Xi studied chemical engineering at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University as a "Worker, Peasant, PLA" student (gongnongbing xuesheng). In 1975, education was more political and practical than professional, and Tsinghua University "was no longer so much a centre of learning, but functioned as a liaison office, where science and engineering majors spent 80% of their time on learning practical subjects and working in factories, 15% of their time studying Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong thought and 5% of their time doing farm work and "learning from the People's Liberation Army".[13] Commenting on the quality of this education, Joseph Fewsmith wrote; "it was probably a decent education, but not as good as he would have received prior to, much less after, the Cultural Revolution".[14]