What's New?
23rd August
Well time has flown and lots has happened with my life.
I am now a
proud father and as such site updates have been impacted I'm afraid!
CantoDict is still going strong though and I hope to find time for some useful updates soon.
On a less positive note, we are currently undergoing a spam attack, so please bear with us while we
try and deal with this.
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Last 10 posts in our forums:
Explore the iconic Chinese restaurant scene from "A Christmas Story." 12/22/2024 by ♭♫
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Re: Karma Shows No Mercy 12/22/2024 by ♭♫
[+-]Xi JinPing's corruption can't be scrutinized in China because his wealth is laundered overseas. This video identifies who his closest relatives are. Assad was lucky but Xi's enemies are much more clever.
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Xi JinPing's alleged illegitimate son has been assassinated.
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Re: 冬大過年 meaning 12/21/2024 by ♭♫
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What matters are the round rice dumplings. The tong yun.
As with everything Chinese, the sound (of its name) and the shape have double meanings. Tong yun is a homophone for togetherness; its round shape represents unity. Eat this and be harmonious.
Re: Esquire’s Restaurant of the Year is : drum🥁roll (no that isn't a dinner biscuit shaped like a drum) 12/21/2024 by ♭♫
[+-]Cantonese crispy skin roast squab is also much more tastier than Peking Duck.
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Four Kings makes only 15 squab dishes per night, largely because it takes 10 days to prepare. The small birds are marinated, dry-aged, smoked and fried so they’re perfectly crisp on the outside and juicy inside texture. It was a bit gamey, as the server warned it would be, but the bird’s tenderness was incredible, and the simple toppings of fresh lemon, salt and Sichuan pepper tied it together nicely.
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The accolades keep pouring in for a new-ish restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Four Kings, a nostalgia-inspired Cantonese spot known for mapo spaghetti and steak chow fun, has been named Esquire’s restaurant of the year.
“You can feel the electric energy emanating from their shoebox space,” wrote Esquire contributing editor Omar Mamoon. “Cantopop ballads blast from the speakers. Vintage posters of Hong Kong cinema stars decorate the walls. Woks go orange with waves of flame. Behind the wooden counter, you see the chefs cooking the dishes they grew up eating—and reinvesting in their community along the way.”
Re: Cool Asian Kids Who Love To Dance 12/20/2024 by ♭♫
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Musical Billy Elliot-Electricity (Korean Billy-Jung Jin Ho)
Re: 湯圓 12/20/2024 by ♭♫
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Re: 冬大過年 meaning 12/20/2024 by ♭♫
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Re: A Glimpse of how Failed Sanctuary City Policies Backfired and is creating more problems then it solves 12/20/2024 by ♭♫
[+-]Key take away: political asylum seekers can live anywhere in the country, therefore Sanctuary City Policies aren't necessary to protect genuine political asylum seekers. Economic migrants do not qualify as political asylees.
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Terrified Migrants Flee NYC… as 25 Shelters Close
Re: As seen in the videos, they viciously ambush law-abiding civilians like Laughing Hyenas prowling the Serengeti 12/20/2024 by ♭♫
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Oakland's Little Saigon business owners plead for help following violent attack
Re: CHINESE IDENTITY 12/20/2024 by ♭♫
[+-]The problem with Lee Kuan Yew's over arching vision in this video is that it mis-appropriates Mandarin as the mother tongue of all overseas ethnic-Chinese; however, other than that...his message resonates loudly with me. As a bicultural Asian, the demon I had to slay in my early youth in order to mitigate identity erasure began with discovering Enlightenment via self-initiated de-Christianization of myself while attending a private Christian school...and because of that...my personal happiness had flowered into a mist of a thousand flowers and people to this day have become so addicted to my infectious attitude that they feed off the radiation of my positive karmic qi. The most unhappiest manic-depressive people I have ever met are Christians and the most angriest nearly having a stroke people I have ever met are Muslims...and when manic-depression rendezvous with anger then those were the Catholic Irish kids I went to school with...and it seemed like they had chosen to drown inside this unforgiving rabbit hole of shame and guilt because politically, it defined their identity in the face of liberating spiritual alternatives.
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Don't Let The West ERASE Your Asian Identity | Lee Kuan Yew