tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239774207937548463.post5977122742094306066..comments2024-03-11T20:41:59.252-06:00Comments on Of Toys and Co: Chef Zhao Bistro, Mountain ViewD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12606515472124254336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239774207937548463.post-27173001961400444442019-02-01T22:56:32.368-07:002019-02-01T22:56:32.368-07:00Hey Mina,
You know what the irony is? Where I liv...Hey Mina,<br /><br />You know what the irony is? Where I live you can go to Pho and order in Vietnamese and everything's good, and then the staff will go back into the kitchen and you'll hear them speak Cantonese to each other LOL xD! <br /><br />If there's such thing as language-envy, I envy Cantonese and Japanese speakers the most. My two favorite languages, really! Cantonese because it most resembles how Medieval Chinese sounded, like Tang poetry will rhyme when read in Cantonese but won't when read in Mandarin, etc. Vietnamese is closer to Cantonese than Mandarin as well, and likewise Tang poetry will also rhyme when read in Han-Vietnamese. How awesome is that?! In fact, I studied Mandarin in college because 18-yearold me naively assumed that the Chinese major my college offered was in Cantonese. And then I stuck around because Chinese characters are beautiful and I wanted to learn them xD And Japanese because of its many complex layers.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />D.<br /><br /> <br /><br />D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12606515472124254336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239774207937548463.post-17637645828476446282019-02-01T20:25:19.719-07:002019-02-01T20:25:19.719-07:00That mapo tofu looks yummy! Despite being kind of ...That mapo tofu looks yummy! Despite being kind of from Hunan, I cant take anything spicy...except for crawfish, which doesn't taste right otherwise.<br /><br />I actually likes how people just assume you are Chinese rightaway...it feels homey. There was one time I went a pho restaurant in Manhattan Chinatown and started going order with Cantonese and the young waiter was like ????? (But seriously, even the hispanic fruit vendor does business in Cantonese there so I wasn't asking for that much). Citrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10199668831634182275noreply@blogger.com