http://www8.garmin.com/yao/media/pt-GarminYao04.jpg
― am0n, Saturday, 16 August 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
when yao make other basketballers look titchy yao're pretty tall
― Just got offed, Saturday, 16 August 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2975129.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1934A2752006EF5F0EDB39920546ED706425A5397277B4DC33E
― circles2, Saturday, 16 August 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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!!!)
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― dayo, Saturday, 25 September 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, uh... no idea where i pulled that out of but thanky.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
actually the second (red bean paste) is really hard to find in hk. it's all lotus paste & salty egg ;_;
― dayo, Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
this is my cousin's thread I'll be taking over from now on
― dayo, Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 6 November 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yo ss,
that's a link to yuzus?
― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Saturday, 6 November 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, is it common where you're at? do you cook with them? or is it more of a jp/kr niche thing?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 6 November 2010 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Saturday, 6 November 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I had dragon fruit when I was in dongguan, I could use some more of that
― death panel of the mods (Edward III), Sunday, 7 November 2010 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
you can get that in Chinatown now iirc
― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Sunday, 7 November 2010 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
how do i steal one base in 9Innings?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 November 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(too ashamed to ask in the proper thread btw)
tell me your team (plus levels/status) as well. :D
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 November 2010 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Monday, 8 November 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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?"
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
probably relieved not to be ~~the hope of a new china~~ any longer
― just woke up (lukas), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
prob just at home stacking his money as high as himself
― ice cr?m, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― markers, Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo is that maybe a sudachi in the .jpg upthread??
― arby's, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno! but do you want some beer and/or fried chicken?
― dayo, Saturday, 18 December 2010 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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 love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 18 December 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 18 December 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
btw would luv beer and/or fried chicken
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 18 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure those are fruits
― max, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
ice cram, you are welcome to have some beer and/or fried chicken, just come fly down to houston and ask for 'yao'
― dayo, Sunday, 19 December 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 December 2010 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
rip
― Aerosol, Friday, 8 July 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/Sad-Keanu-and-yao.jpg
― Aerosol, Friday, 8 July 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
i just found out about this! omg ;_;
missing yao
― Clay, Friday, 8 July 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
THIS SUCKS SO MUCH
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Clay, Saturday, 9 July 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
if yao and his wife ever have a son he's def gonna be like 9 feet tall. yao's wife is 6'2
― dayo, Saturday, 9 July 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
iirc to get the height of a child u have to add up its parents height
― ☂ (max), Saturday, 9 July 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
that is why i am 11'8"
this puts accusations of you being double morbidly obese in new light then
― dayo, Saturday, 9 July 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
really can't believe your dad is only 3'5" though
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3001884/National-Basketball-Association
― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Monday, 11 July 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― circles, Monday, 11 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lojuhwPJWO1qzel1vo1_500.png
― polyphonic, Monday, 18 July 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link