thankig yao

when yao make other basketballers look titchy yao're pretty tall

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2975129.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1934A2752006EF5F0EDB39920546ED706425A5397277B4DC33E

dayo,

how do you say (phonetically) "mooncake" in cantonese? google is failing me.

i can't remember but something like:" wing puh xiao" (sorry i know that's bad!!!)

SS,

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/72/

(the j is like one of those weird spanish j's that you pronounce like a y)

not sure what 'wing puh xiao' is referring to?

haha, uh... no idea where i pulled that out of but thanky.

wait...the link came out wrong

it's

jyut6 beng2

the first word is a very low, flat tone, the second is a rising tone (exactly like the rising tone in mandarin)

two common fillings:

蓮蓉 (lin4 jung4) both words pronounced wtih a falling tone
豆沙 (dau6 saa1) first is the low flat tone, second is high flat tone

actually the second (red bean paste) is really hard to find in hk. it's all lotus paste & salty egg ;_;

heh i just searched mooncake. i thought you were just linking a canto-english dictionary :-( [altho i bm'd it fwiw].

oh btw i thought you had your own thread wtf?

this is my cousin's thread I'll be taking over from now on

yo duders,

do you ever see these in groceries? is it something common to cook/season/juice?

http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/日本柚子

just wonder baout stuph,

ss

yo ss,

that's a link to yuzus?

yeah, is it common where you're at? do you cook with them? or is it more of a jp/kr niche thing?

hmm I'm not sure, around this time of year we do get these:

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_00711.jpg

the name on the placard says "taiwanese mandarin oranges"

not sure if they're the same

don't recall them being used too much in cooking around here, but I don't eat out too often/don't eat a lot of cantonese food. gut says they're probably not widely used in cooking

some of the japanese restaurants around here do offer yuzu soda with little yuzu balls and/or slices that you crush with a special metal crushing tool

wow, those look kinda similar (but bigger) to these great tasting citrus from Okinawa called "squash" (which I can't figure out why) but in japanese they pronounce it shikuwasa, shiikuwaasaa or shiikuwaashiaa ("シークヮーサー"). i have no idea where the name comes from but the okinawans told me it migrated from TW a long time ago.

it's interesting that so many of the flavors associated with Japanese cuisine immigrated from China but I'm curious as to what role citrus like these play in Chinese cuisine because I'm unaware of any.

haha I mean it probably is used in higher level cantonese/chiuchow cuisine I imagine. but good quality canto/chuichow cuisine is $$$ to eat here so I never go, couldn't really tell you what's going on at the higher echelons of canto cooking

I had dragon fruit when I was in dongguan, I could use some more of that

you can get that in Chinatown now iirc

how do i steal one base in 9Innings?

(too ashamed to ask in the proper thread btw)

tell me your team (plus levels/status) as well. :D

you need to tap on the runner during the at-bat, the computer cheats though. I'm successful 1/3 I steal but I can only throw the computer out maybe 1/5 times, even though I always see the guy take off and tap furiously on the 2nd base icon.

think each batter has a running speed as well, it's on the bottom left of the card. rollins has an A but prince fielder has a D, so I think that's right.

my team right now is rollins, fielder, pujols, and howard 1-4 and then it doesn't really matter after that because they just kill! the game got too easy so I haven't been playing it recently, instead been doing drop 7 and trainyard... my pitchers are halladay, verlander, greinke, vazquez, and paneiro, w/ bell as the closer and belisario, thornton, o'day, and saito as my relief.

Yao, as is his nature, was upbeat in light of a setback that throws a shadow over his future.

"I haven't died," he said. "Right now I'm drinking a beer and eating fried chicken. What were you expecting, a funeral?"

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20101217&t=2&i=278376110&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2010-12-17T055651Z_01_BTRE6BG0GIU00_RTROPTP_0_NBA

Apparently, Yao's entire life is not centered in basketball to the point where he can't feel happy just eating fried chicken. He's so sane that he makes people like KG and Kobe look, er, somewhat unbalanced.

probably relieved not to be ~~the hope of a new china~~ any longer

prob just at home stacking his money as high as himself

hey ya'll just wanted to let ya'll know my foot is nothing serious, I'm just chilling at home eating fried chicken and drinking beer

I'll be happy to take any questions from ILH

lol

dayo is that maybe a sudachi in the .jpg upthread??

I dunno! but do you want some beer and/or fried chicken?

arby's, those are labeled taiwanese mandarin oranges which are closer to mikan or satsuma in japanese, but these look way greener. those also look much bigger than sudachi.

i would love some beer and fried chicken but i'm on a diet... in december. :(

those oranges look a lot like what they call 'sweet limes' in nepal

btw would luv beer and/or fried chicken

pretty sure those are fruits

ice cram, you are welcome to have some beer and/or fried chicken, just come fly down to houston and ask for 'yao'

SS, you can do so too when you are finished dieting

cool i will go to houston and ask for yao then i will have beer and fried chicken

rip

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/Sad-Keanu-and-yao.jpg

i just found out about this! omg ;_;

missing yao

THIS SUCKS SO MUCH

just noticed yao is about 20 days older than me and he is retired from basketball.

gonna have fun thinking about that for the rest of the day.

if yao and his wife ever have a son he's def gonna be like 9 feet tall. yao's wife is 6'2

iirc to get the height of a child u have to add up its parents height

that is why i am 11'8"

this puts accusations of you being double morbidly obese in new light then

really can't believe your dad is only 3'5" though

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3001884/National-Basketball-Association

sports illustrated just had a feature last week about retired nba centers. not exactly a surprise, but shawn bradley has 6 kids and lives on a ranch in utah.

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