Yes, the intonation is very important when it comes to speaking Chinese
Even I faltered at times! I was sent to a Malay school hence my bad Mandarin. My Chinese girlfriends who attended Chinese school, got tired of correcting me! I sometimes wish my late maternal grandparents sent me to a Chinese school instead
Yup. 100% Chinese. I’m a 3rd generation of Malaysian-Chinese. Great-grandparents escaped southern China in the late 1920’s. Dad’s side was from Fuzhou. Mom is a Hakka. I speak Cantonese and Fujianese and a smattering of Hakka and Mandarin.
I was living in Macau when one of my ex-husband’s staff from Shunde ( in the Guangdong province) offered to take my kids and I to dine at her brothers’ restaurant. It was really cold during the Chinese New Year and we could have a choice of dog’s meat or snake to keep our bodies warm.
I said no to both and opted for chicken, much to their amusement
I’m a disgrace to the Chinese. I don’t eat a lot of stuffs like a ‘normal’ Chinese do!
And my son is equally crazy of them too! Here he is, a pic taken in 2013 in Zhuhai, China, where we’d go for our dim sum fix, at least once a month, before embarking on our shopping spree!
Merc, I used to eat pig’s intestines when I was 7 or 8 but for some reason, I stopped eating them when I reached like 10 years old.
My grandparents used to bring me to this one stall that served the best ‘Bak Kut Teh’ in our hometown.
They’d also ordered some side dishes like this one...sliced pig’s ear in soy sauce. I remember loving the crunchiness of them! I stopped eating that as well after some time.
The Chinese have being doing it for the longest time and it has been recently caught on amongst the Western women.
All I know is the Malay Muslims here will bring home the placenta and bury it in the compound around their house.
“The placenta is actually considered as the elder sibling or the twin of the baby being born. They believe that the placenta is there to serve as the baby’s guardian all through his/her life for which reason it needs to be buried instead of being disposed of. In fact, there are certain rituals that must be performed before the burial and the placenta is treated with utmost respect and regard.” - from the internet
RE: Anyone else like to wear dark sunglasses?
Settle down. Don’t be easily deceived by online picsThis one pic has been heavily filtered and photoshopped. And lots of Kleenex was used too