今天又去了民宝火锅城,想起来第一次去多么麻烦。菜单上的汉字大部不认识,服务员说的话也不太明白。“点菜吗”,她问了。“我想吃一种东西,可是我不知道它叫什么”,我回答。“这个东西呢,是黄色、圆的……球……好像是用面做的”。服务员没明白,于是我又说了几遍,哈哈大笑地做手势。她终于问“求切半,对吗?”我没听清,可是已经说了半天,所以只点了点头。随后她把菜端过来,其中居然有我想要的面筋。成功了!
第二次去,点菜没有那么难。菜单上找到了面筋,就指了指给服务员看。“面基、面近、面什么?”我问她了。“面筋。”成功了!
我今天对菜单很熟悉,自信十足地说“麻酱、炸豆皮、土豆片、白菜、鸡毛菜、粉丝、腐竹、面筋。”成功了!
上面有错误的话,请帮我指出来。
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
今天吃火锅了
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, China, 火锅, 面筋, Food, 北京, 中国 on May 12, 2007 | 10 Comments »
在北京的时间一半过了
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, Bread, China, 菜, 面包, Food, 北京, 中国 on February 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
English translation below.
好久没有用中文来写。现在放假,同学们都走了,留下我一个人。我来北京五个月了,天天都上课我的汉语水平提高了不少。我因为期末考试考得不错,所以可以跳班了。如果我跳班我会觉得难一点,可是那样我的进步会更大。这是学习的事情,当然还发生了很多其它事,所以我想写下一些我的经历。
我对北京的生活早就习惯了。空气污染、危险的交通、难吃的面包,在北京遇到这些困难,不过好东西还很多。我特别喜欢的是中国菜,又便宜又好吃!瑞典饭店的菜差不多都有肉所以我很少去,可是在这儿大多数饭店有好吃的素菜。我最喜欢的一些菜是家常豆腐、香辣土豆丝、鱼香茄子、炒面、老醋花生米等等。
北京菜好吃,可是我不喜欢北京的面包。在瑞典面包外面硬、里面软。在中国呢?面包的外面和里面都软!包装上印着“有牛奶!”,可能这是主要原因之一。一般面包不应该有牛奶,我不知道为什么中国人喜欢这种面包。我很想念瑞典的。
中国的谦逊很有意思。这个“哪里”听起来很假的,但我被影响了。有人夸奖我的汉语时我一般说“还差得远呢”,可是我有时候感到不舒服,什么也说不了。有一次一个瑞典人夸奖我,我一下子回答“不是,我没有什么”。以后我就觉得很奇怪,在瑞典说谢谢就行了,说“我没有什么”太谦逊,其实有点不礼貌。
我最快乐的事是私事,不过现在我想让大家知道。我来北京以后很快就爱上了一个天使。她是我的同学,又聪明又漂亮。去香山、做面食、看黄金甲、过圣诞节都是跟她一起的。我们已经在一起四个月了,能当她的男朋友我非常自豪。现在她回越南去了,我当然很想她。我不应该写下来一封情书,我只想说:清娥,我爱你! Thiên sứ, anh yêu em!
My classmates have all gone home over the holiday, leaving me alone in Beijing. I’ve been here for five months now, attending class every day, so my Mandarin has improved quite a bit. I did well on the final exams so if I want to I can jump up [...]
Chopstick pasta
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Food, Pasta on November 10, 2006 | No Comments »
Today I once again made pasta, with real pasta this time! A little bird whispered in my ear that you can actually eat pasta with chopsticks… I’m just writing to tell you all that it’s true, who would have thought?
Yes, that’s a knife and fork on the table. Yes Emil, the V-sign is just to [...]
I can’t believe it’s not pasta!
Posted in Nonsense, tagged China, Food, Pasta on November 5, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Since I have mid-term exams next week I need to spend a lot of time on elaborate cooking experiments instead of studying. In Sweden I often make pasta (spaghetti or macaroni) with some tasy sauce. Yesterday I accidentally made something resembling pasta sauce when I used a kind of tofu that disintegrated into small [...]
Don’t worry mom
Posted in Nonsense, tagged China, Food on September 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Since my previous food related post, I’ve actually succeeded at ordering vegan food every time. Today I went to eat dinner without any friends or dictionaries and still succeeded to communicate my wishes. There weren’t even any pictures in the menu! My standard phrase is now 《我什么肉也不吃,你有素菜吗?》 and it hasn’t failed yet. The problem now [...]
Shit happens, repeatedly
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, China, Food on September 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The initial success with getting vegan food seems to have been beginners luck, I haven’t done so great lately. Every time that I’ve seen the actual food or a picture of it, I’ve succeeded, but every time I’ve only had a menu and a waiter to consult, I’ve failed. Twice I got stuff with egg [...]
BeijingMUD
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, China, Food, MUD on September 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Beijing is actually a MUD (online text adventure game)! Almost all the streets run in east-west or south-north direction and the signs in the intersections are marked with east/south/west/north. The city planners obviously thought in terms of a MUD, thousands of years before those silly computer science students. My route to school is south, east, south, east, [...]
Lesson 1: food
Posted in Nonsense, tagged Beijing, China, Food on August 31, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The first order of business is to not die, and therefore food. After registering at BLCU today it was way past lunch and I was very hungry, so I went to a local restaurant. I asked if they had tofu (你有豆腐吗?, thank you Jun) but they didn’t. They did however realize that I wanted some [...]

