As I sit down for a Shanghainese pedicure at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, I quickly realize it’s not going to be the usual buff and polish. Pedicurist Benjamin Cheung whips out a black satchel, ...
SHANGHAI — As Yang Mengqi stepped onto the stage for her first stand-up show in Shanghainese, nervous questions swirled in her head: Would her jokes land, or would the nuances of a dialect rarely used ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When people have enough to eat, they often start thinking about the finer things in life: Laphroaig, ...
04 September 2012 • 7:05am Shanghainese, like many of the estimated 80 other local dialects spoken in China, is endangered by the central government's pro-Mandarin policy, which allows only "putonghua ...
He had his first taste of being an outsider at a kindergarten enrollment interview. Three-year-old Ivan Yu chatted with family members in Shanghainese, but could not understand his teacher's questions ...
We’ve heard of Hainanese, Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew and even Hakka food. What about Shanghainese? What is Shanghainese food you might be wondering – wait, that’s a dialect group? Yes it’s an actual ...
Humphrey Tai is a manager and one of the owners of 3.6.9. Restaurant Shanghai Food in Wan Chai, but he insists on preparing and making the wonton and xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) himself. This way, he ...
As I sit down for a Shanghainese pedicure at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, I quickly realize it’s not going to be the usual buff and polish. Pedicurist Benjamin Cheung whips out a black satchel, ...
As I sit down for a Shanghainese pedicure at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, I quickly realize it’s not going to be the usual buff and polish. Pedicurist Benjamin Cheung whips out a black satchel, ...
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