Chinese Banquet at New Hong Kong Restaurant in Richmond, BC, Canada

New Hong Kong Restaurant www.dineouthere.com 470 - 9100 Blundell Road Richmond BC Canada (a suburb of Vancouver) Garden City Shopping Centre phone ...

Hong Kong Restaurant - Xiao Nan Guo

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Gage Street - Disapearring Hong Kong Tea Restaurant 消失中的港式茶餐厅.mov

Jun Le Tea Restaurant is one of many disappearing Hongkong traditional tea restaurants. We are not gonna let this happen. We as common mainland ...

Why do Chinese people fight over who pays at the restaurant?

Q: I was in Hong Kong and my dad fought with my older uncle who lives in HK over who pays the bill for the meal. Why Chinese people like to do this?

A: Chinese people certainly aren't the only people who do this. People do it because they want to be generous. Get two people at the same table who want to be generous and they argue about it.

What causes sudden diarrea?

Q: I went to a chinese restaurant. Ordered a pork ramen and Hong Kong milk ice tea. After 20 minutes of eating it I had a sudden urge to shit. Is like if someone put laxative in the food. I don't have a history of this happening to me. Any ideas? I'm thinking of calling the Health department and sending a health inspector to check the place out.

Interesting encounters as a tourist in a foreign country or w/ tourists? Ever have any of these issues arise?

Q: Seeking to help [Britains] sometimes snarky citizens offer a warmer welcome, the tourism bureau has updated its advice for anyone likely to work with travellers arriving from overseas — from hotel staff to taxi drivers.

New guidelines from VisitBritain ahead of the 2012 London Olympics warn that:

- Canadians tend to be offended when they are when mistaken for Americans.
- Hold off from hugging an Indian, the guide advises, and don't be alarmed if the French are rude.
-Don't go around asking Brazilians personal questions and never be bossy with visitors from the Middle East.

"VisitBritain said research it had conducted found tourists believe Britons are honest and efficient — but not the most pleasant. Britain is ranked 14th out of 50 in the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index on the quality of welcome offered to visitors, the tourism agency said.

The frank etiquette tips were written by agency staff about their own native countries.

- Polish tourists are likely to be hurt by stereotypes that imply they drink excessively, while the - - French are notoriously picky in restaurants."
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[I know that's true and what makes them the most disliked tourists in all of Europe - maybe the whole world. They don't want to eat anything, and they are notorious for being rude. I would like to add "rip off" artist (some, obviously not all). If you're a tourist they will change you a much higher cab fare than they will one of their own. Let's hope they have meters in their cabs now.]

More:
- U.K. workers are told to brush off common Argentine jokes about a person's clothing or weight.
- Belgians take offense at people snapping their fingers.
- Australians are fond of coarse language.
- Japanese people consider prolonged eye contact impolite and smile to express a range of emotions — not simply to show happiness.

Tourism workers are ADVISED TO SHOW EXTRA PATIENCE when dealing with:

*Indians: impatient, demanding, brusque. Indians also don't like being touched by strangers and may be suspicious about the quality of British food, the guide said, without noting the latter might be a common concern.

*United Arab Emirates: Travellers from the Middle East are likely to be demanding with staff and "are not used to being told what they can't do," the guide warns.

*Guests from China and Hong Kong may find winking or pointing with an index finger rude, while "mentioning failure, poverty or death risks offense," the advice claims. Chinese visitors may be unimpressed by landmarks just a few hundred years old, tourism staff are told.

*Tourism workers are advised against discussing poverty, immigration, earthquakes or the Mexican-American war with visitors from Mexico

And Americans? They can appear "informal to the point of being very direct or even rude" and won't ever hesitate about complaining, the guide says.

So what do you think? Comments?
I forgot one that I had read about elswhere: don't ask Middle Eastern men about how wives. This is a serious social faux pas. If you must make conversation, its best to ask about male children.
Reminds me of an old joke.
What's the definition of heaven?
A French cook, an English cop, and a German mechanic.
What's the definition of hell?
A French mechanic, a German cop and an English cook.
Rachel, I'm not saying each and every French person is rude. I also had good experiences while there. But on the whole... brace yourself. They'll never stop moaning about the food, wait for it.
The "hugging Indians" thing is pretty inane, I do sooo agree. I suggest this "Information Packet" is in need of a makeover.

A: I'm pretty offended actually, for myself and for tourists. Us Londoners are some of the most culturally aware people in the world, and tourists always know that they're going to encounter customs that they're unfamiliar with. That's generally why people travel, y'know, to get to know other ways of doing things.

"Don't be alarmed if the French are rude"!!!!!! How condescending! Why the hell would we be alarmed? Aren't people who live in major cities used to rudeness? Aren't we rude ourselves? Polish people find humour in their drinking, and hugging Indians? Who goes around hugging people they've just met at a tourist attraction?

The guide sounds like it's been written by someone who lives under a rock. It's not relevant to Londoners AT ALL.

I'm a bit p*ssed off now. Grr

What more could I do? What more could you want from a guy who likes you?

Q: I really really love this girl.....but she not in a relationship yet, but I really want to be in one with her
We've gone out on 3 date, around once a week. We talk on the phone or text everyday, from very personal feeling to day-to-day stuff.

At first she I asked her how she felt about me and she said I think you're a nice guy and complimented about my looks.
When I asked her...she said that it was best if we were just friends.
Later she sense I was upset about it and she lead me on saying that there is something I could do about it, which was-to stop just talking about it and make her feel it, make her feel special and touched.
Yesterday she asked me that I thought that being just friends would be better.
All of which happened over 3 weeks.

We go for fancy nice restaurants every time, so she was concerned if I was spending too much money on her. She was sick one say so I brought her this chinese tea thing (its kind of like drinking soup when you're sick, we both from Hong Kong) she said that no one has done something like this for her before. I always treat her like a lady.
She was afraid that I would eventually lose interest in her and leave, and that she wanted to get married in a few years so she looking for someone for the long term(which I am too),she also said that she didn't wanted to have a choice to work or not when she got married.
So I said that I won't that she is the most important person in my life, and that I would promise to marry her and that I would take care of her, and that she wouldn't have to work if she didn't want to.

I would do anything for her, I want her to be happy. I want to make her feel like the most loved girl in the world. If its what she wants.
She seems not to really care if I gave up or not, she told me to do that once. I have looks, money, a good heart....I think, I'm trying my best and doing all I could possible think of

What more could I give? Do I sound like the type of guy that girls won't like? I don't know...apparently...
What do you think is going through her mind?
I feel so sad confused and angry at the same time, I just really want her to love me.....
What more does she want from me?
I give her regular surprises, I care for her