The Kumkuat Korner

Do you remember when Jacky Chan and Chris Tucker in the fighting scene and they caught themselves from plunging to their deaths by hanging off the bamboo in one of the shots of Rush Hour 2?  Chris Tucker was like "Lord Jesus, I don't wanna die!" And Jackie Chan said: "Don't worry...." Well, he's right. Chinese Bamboo is so strong and so cheap that its used as scaffolding instead of metal here in Hong Kong and some parts of developing Asian countries. I was taken aback by how many buildings were constructed with bamboo as scaffolding material as opposed to the more modern metal scaffolding. A quick search over the internet discovered that there are three types of bamboo scaffolding and a bigger decline of jobs in the bamboo scaffolding business due to the younger generation not seeing bamboo as a safe material and prefer jobs with metal scaffolding. Construction car heading to their work site with bamboo in their cab. Now. If ever th...

Hello my lovies!  Sorry I've been away so long. I made a post about making a video of how to cut dragon fruit but I couldn't get the video to play and ended up deleting the post. I'll figure out how to do that somehow. So like I promised in my previous post I am going to answer some of the questions I have received  about my travels here in China. The question everyone keeps asking me is  Are you learning Chinese? This requires a post on its own.  No and yes. Chinese is popularly misconstrued as a language and almost always we don't do anything about it to correct it.  Its like people saying "Do you speak American ?"  Or even dumber saying, "Do you speak Mexican ?"  The correct term is Mandarin. However, it has become very common, even among the Chinese people to say "Do you speak Chinese?" Because the literal word for the Chinese language is Zhong wèn  and it can be used as an adjective or noun to literally mean  Chinese. ...