It's totally okay if you only know English.Most of the staffs working at the tourist hot-spots can speak English, or at least understand it. Street signs, subway stations names and things like this are all written in English, besides in Chinese.
But if you want to visit Shanghai as a totally independent traveler, and don't plan to contact any English tourism service company, then the best advice I can give is this: download a Chinese cab-calling APP. The most popular APP of its kind is "滴滴打车",you can change its language display to English easily. The cab-drivers here rarely respond to hand-waving calling along the street now, they all pick up customer through APP. I lost counts of how many times of me witnessing the sights of tourists or old people, waving hands desperately, but waves of taxis just ignore them.
Hey Folks,
i have a question. Its about the parents from my girlfriend. They re South Korean and live in Germany, I am Turkish and also live there. The Problem is, they don't like me much, they tolerate me, but thats it. At this point I don't know what to do, the first time when my girl brought me home to meet each other, I brought some gift (wine and chocolate) and also thanked for the invitation and the dinner. More than any other from the guys they dated did anything, her sister had a boyfriend, he was German/polish and they loved him, did everything for him, cleaned his clothes etc...
because he was German. They have also Students because they have a Taekwondo School (yaya what a cliche xD) and they tried to couple her Daughter with a German guy.... what the fuck are they in with the German love?
Do you have any ideas? Or should I ignore it and give a fuck?
The short answer is you should probably ignore it.
It's hard to give a real answer without understanding their motivations. Do you suspect that they don't like you because you're not "white"? If so, there's obviously nothing you can do to change that. That said (and I'm really generalizing here), folks from the older Korean generation tend to love it when foreigners take a genuine interest in Korean culture/language/food/everything. If you make a concerted effort to learn about your girlfriend's cultural background, that will likely earn you some serious points. Tread lightly because there's a fine line between adopting cultural behavior and mocking it. Little things like making sure that your girlfriends' parents drinking glasses are filled first are probably good for starters.
But seriously, talk it over with your girlfriend first and take your cues from her.
I can't believe some of those posts in the brain implant thread with making fun of an Asian name and that same Dr black poster. I hope some of you reported some posts.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/scientists-boost-human-memory-using-brain-implant.7412/
Not directed at you, but more of a general statement:
There's a long history of people making fun of Asian names to demean them, dehumanize them, and portray them as the "other".
It's already shitty to make fun of someone's name. They don't have a choice about how they're named, and it can be difficult to get a name change (legally and otherwise).
It's even shittier to bring casual racism into it because you think it's funny.
That's because I reported a bunch of posts.Thanks for the link. It looks like a mod's on it. And not to dox myself, but as someone who grew up with the name "Tang", I assure you I understand.
Visiting Orange County for the week from SF and damn...it's 90 in Irvine today lol.
Tried the matcha milk tea at Milk Box in Tustin. Pretty good. Almost tempted to try that $23 boba matcha milk tea drink...
I'm staying with my brother in Costa Mesa until Wednesday night (yay for being able to work from home, or anywhere with internet).I live in Irvine.
You should have stopped by and said hi :D
If you're still in town on Saturday let me know and we'll get boba!!!!
Was it good?
Also, on another note, I am visiting some (basically estranged) family in SF in a couple of weeks. Do y'all know if there's anything here in LA that they don't have up there? I'm thinking Kelly's Kookies, but is there something better?
The cone was the best part, they dusted it with "activated charcoal," which made the chemist in me laugh a bit.
Sour Sally frozen yoghurt shops in Indonesia also got into the activated charcoal hype a while back.
Activated... charcoal? Sounds like buzzwords for bullshit, LOLIt is kind of a thing, but not like a thing that I'd sprinkle over food just cause at this point. The effectiveness of it as anything other than anti toxin treatment has not been studied enough to make any claims to actually being a health benefit. For example, if you wanted to reduce cholesterol intake I might advice you to eat more plant sterols/stanols instead of relying on activated charcoal.
That being said, it's perfectly harmless as far as we know, so I mean, I wouldn't avoid it, but I wouldn't trip over myself trying to get it into my body either.
Activated charcoal is the latest trend. I've seen it in lemonade.
Activated... charcoal? Sounds like buzzwords for bullshit, LOL
Oh yeah, there's a Japanese medicine that's basically just that, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeiroganIt works great as a medicine if you have stomach problems like lots of gas or bloating or mild food poisoning.
Except it makes your poop turn black.
I'm not the biggest fan of egg in donburi but I can't deny that ;)That looks delicious! I love the glistening of the egg, means that it has been cooked perfectly.
Alcohol evaporates when you cook it, so it's everything left over that lends the taste. Hence why restaurants can serve kids food made with wine reductions.That baijiu stuff looks neat to cook with. 52% damn. I wonder how it will affect the taste of food, especially marinating a pork belly. I usually use shaoxing wine and that's only 14%.
You should also check out Dough & Arrow a few blocks down. They make ube croissants that are really delicious.Oh wtf I live in Irvine, like right next to this.
I should check it out sometime :o