{"id":151,"date":"2009-10-17T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-10-17T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T16:31:48","slug":"hk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/hk-again\/","title":{"rendered":"HK Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went to HK in search of <strong>\u58f6\u94c3<\/strong> (kettlebells) at one store and imported <strong>\u8fa3\u6912\u9171<\/strong> (hot sauce) of a particular brand at another.\u00a0 While I ended up searching for the kettlebells on <strong>\u6dd8\u5b9d<\/strong> (Taobao, an online Chinese retailer), I&#8217;m still happy to have made the effort to look.\u00a0 I was able to find some <strong>\u98ce\u5e72\u8089<\/strong> (air-cured meat) for sale at the imported foods market, although it was being sold at a <strong>\u6602\u8d35<\/strong> (very expensive) price.\u00a0 As I took the boat across the harbor with a high school classmate, I realized that the ferry operators must be <strong>\u4e8f\u672c<\/strong> (losing money) as they do not put advertisements on the interior of the boats.\u00a0 Not long afterward, I realized that they must have rights to the <strong>\u7801\u5934<\/strong> (piers), potentially guaranteeing their revenues.\u00a0 After returning to Shenzhen, I played arcade games with my classmate and found that the <strong>\u91d1\u5e01<\/strong> (gold coins [used to play the games]) cost only 0.5RMB (that&#8217;s roughly 7 cents in US Dollar terms).\u00a0 What an inexpensive way to have fun!\u00a0 We probably could have gotten to the arcade earlier if my friend&#8217;s passport hadn&#8217;t <strong>\u70c2\u6389<\/strong> (fallen\/rotten apart) in the washing machine several weeks ago, requiring that he get a replacement and produce 2 passports at border control (the rotten one with the current visa and the new, undefaced one).\u00a0 We grabbed some <strong>\u725b\u8169<\/strong> (beef tenderloin) curry and were on our way to the next adventure.<\/p>\n<p>\u58f6\u94c3 hu2ling2 &#8211; kettlebell (a type of weight shaped like a cannonball with a U-shaped handle)<br \/>\n\u8fa3\u6912\u9171 la4jiao1jiang4 &#8211; hot sauce<br \/>\n\u6dd8\u5b9d tao2(3)bao3 &#8211; Taobao, a Chinese e-commerce site<br \/>\n\u98ce\u5e72\u8089 feng1gan1rou4 &#8211; air-cured meat<br \/>\n\u6602\u8d35 ang2gui4 &#8211; (highly) expensive<br \/>\n\u4e8f\u672c kui1ben3 &#8211; losing money (losing operating expenses)<br \/>\n\u7801\u5934 ma3tou2 &#8211; pier\/dock<br \/>\n\u91d1\u5e01 jin1bi4 &#8211; gold coin<br \/>\n\u70c2\u6389 lan4diao4 &#8211; to rot\/fall\/come apart (specifically referring to objects)<br \/>\n\u725b\u8169 niu2nan2 &#8211; beef tenderloin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went to HK in search of \u58f6\u94c3 (kettlebells) at one store and imported \u8fa3\u6912\u9171 (hot sauce) of a particular brand at another.\u00a0 While I ended up searching for the kettlebells on \u6dd8\u5b9d (Taobao, an online Chinese retailer), I&#8217;m still happy to have made the effort to look.\u00a0 I was able to find some&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/hk-again\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}