Social Chinese

• How to be a 'buddha-like youth'

  Dec 26, 2017

  Are you a passive person¡ªthe type who just accepts whatever life throws at you, and never cuts in line? If so, there¡¯s a netizen word for your attitude¡ª¡°Buddha-like¡±, a term particularly associated with those born after 1990s, or ¡°Buddha-like youths¡±.

• All you can eat in Chinese

  Dec 19, 2017

  You probably don¡¯t recall chewing on a mouthful of vinegar; it¡¯s hardly a well-balanced meal and would be damn tough to swallow. But then again, so is watching a rival in love steal the object of your affections. Just like the grumpy baby in the picture below, no one wishes to end up eating vinegar(³Ô´× ch¨© c¨´).

• Red flags

  Dec 18, 2017

  Chinese moviegoers have a term for this sort of signaling: ¡°Don¡¯t raise a flag!¡±

• The magic word for addressing strangers

  Oct 17, 2017

  You¡¯ve just left the office and have a hankering for some down-home Chinese food.

• Hot pot or malatang?

  Jul 7, 2017

  It¡¯s hard to imagine that any organization called the China Standardization Administration and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine could manage to stir the (hot) pot of a years-old culinary controversy.