You already said China so I guess I'll go Hong Kong.
Hong Kong (香港) means fragrant harbour. The origin of this name is unknown, but there are theories of it coming from a type of wood we produced, a nice river, the wife of a pirate, or some residents just pronounced it with an accent to the British soldiers.
Fast food isn't really cheaper in HK either. Tipping culture is non-existent here so that doesn't cause a difference.
Interesting. Fried rice is more commonly found in traditional restaurants for us. Not much in fast food.
MSG was so prevalent until people said it was bad. One of our local fast food chain restaurants still has a "No MSG" poster in some of their branches.
I live in Hong Kong and it feels like most American fast food here involves oil and deep fried food. Then I remembered at one point HK local fast food were full of MSGs.
It led me to this question. What is your local fast food obsessed with? It can be an ingredient, spice, sauce, cooking method, etc.
There are a few ways we do it in Chinese.
In mainland, people would sometimes just type the initials of the pronunciation of the character. For example, hhhhh (哈哈哈哈哈, hahahahaha), sb (傻逼 sha bi, dumbass). It can get out of hand for people who are not super familiar with their vocabularies (like me, a Hong Kong Cantonese speaker)
Alternatively, one can just use a different dialect/version of Chinese. In Hong Kong, we can have both written Chinese and spoken Cantonese mixed in the same message. We simply pick which one of them gives a shorter version of the word. For example, 回家看看有無撞其餘活動 ([Written] Go home and see [Spoken] if it conflicts with other events). Sometimes we even mix in ancient Chinese.
My mom always says warm you neck. Her explanation is that an artery runs through it and you can lose heat quite quickly there.
She was a nurse, so I do trust her.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32586652 >Also on Mastodon (Wet-Dry World) :> > > Danas (丹娜絲) is a typhoon that formed to the east of Hong Kong and is moving northwards. She pretty much pulled away all the clouds so it's very sunny (and hot) here. > > !Path of Danas
Also on Mastodon (Wet-Dry World) :>
Danas (丹娜絲) is a typhoon that formed to the east of Hong Kong and is moving northwards. She pretty much pulled away all the clouds so it's very sunny (and hot) here.
A hill next to my uni. Sometimes I have a 2-hour break after lunch and I'd just walk up and back down. The view is sick (photo taken March this year)
Oh I thought you meant socializing during transit, sorry. I forgot to consider in other places parks are not a maximum 15-minute walk away
Doesn't work. I live in Hong Kong, which has some of the world's most efficient public transport systems. People don't actually talk. They just look at their phones. A train cart can be full of people but no conversation.
Today (June 21st) is summer solstice
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31197787
> Wutip (蝴蝶) formed very close to Hong Kong, within 800km away. She isn't even classified as a "tropical cyclone" because she was not strong enough. She spent most of her lifetime as a "tropical depression". > > The Chinese name literally means "butterfly", so that's why she has butterfly wings. > > I call this "Typhoon Posting". Basically, I draw tropical cyclones as humans. This is the 1st typhoon this year, and my 3rd typhoon total. > > !Tropical Depression
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31197787 >Wutip (蝴蝶) formed very close to Hong Kong, within 800km away. She isn't even classified as a "tropical cyclone" because she was not strong enough. She spent most of her lifetime as a "tropical depression". > > The Chinese name literally means "butterfly", so that's why she has butterfly wings. > > I call this "Typhoon Posting". Basically, I draw tropical cyclones as humans. This is the 1st typhoon this year, and my 3rd typhoon total. > > !Tropical Depression
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31197787 >Wutip (蝴蝶) formed very close to Hong Kong, within 800km away. She isn't even classified as a "tropical cyclone" because she was not strong enough. She spent most of her lifetime as a "tropical depression". > > The Chinese name literally means "butterfly", so that's why she has butterfly wings. > > I call this "Typhoon Posting". Basically, I draw tropical cyclones as humans. This is the 1st typhoon this year, and my 3rd typhoon total. > > !Tropical Depression
Wutip (蝴蝶) formed very close to Hong Kong, within 800km away. She isn't even classified as a "tropical cyclone" because she was not strong enough. She spent most of her lifetime as a "tropical depression".
The Chinese name literally means "butterfly", so that's why she has butterfly wings.
I call this "Typhoon Posting". Basically, I draw tropical cyclones as humans. This is the 1st typhoon this year, and my 3rd typhoon total.
I happened to be writing a program that interacts with the PeerTube livechat plugin on peertube.wtf. It was fine until suddenly a reload returned 404 from the chat room. I checked on the PeerTube instance and surely enough, the live chat was gone from my stream. The chatroom settings was also gone from the side bar.
Is this a temporary issue or an intended action?
Get some ice cream!
Lemmy isn't that friendly with video so the animated version is here (if it works): !Integrelle eating ice cream
Alternatively it's also on Wet-Dry World
This year I participated in making Zong's (粽, sticky rice inside bamboo leaves) and it was quite fun. So here's Summatia holding one she made.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28506880
> Decided to actually put in effort and tried to dotfile with Hyprland and Waybar. It turned out pretty well! > > If you think the wallpaper looks disconnected, that's because I actually have a diagonal monitor setup. > ! > > dotfiles: https://github.com/North-West-Wind/dotfiles
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28506880 >Decided to actually put in effort and tried to dotfile with Hyprland and Waybar. It turned out pretty well! > > If you think the wallpaper looks disconnected, that's because I actually have a diagonal monitor setup. > ! > > dotfiles: https://github.com/North-West-Wind/dotfiles
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28506880 >Decided to actually put in effort and tried to dotfile with Hyprland and Waybar. It turned out pretty well! > > If you think the wallpaper looks disconnected, that's because I actually have a diagonal monitor setup. > ! > > dotfiles: https://github.com/North-West-Wind/dotfiles
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I'm a Hongkonger 🇭🇰 If you're a westerner coming here because you're arguing with me about something in HK/China/Asia, I forgive you for your misunderstandings.