ChinaTown~ Alone... Jeng Jeng Jeng...

Well... I just came back from chinatown and guess what, it ain't easy to be in chinatown alone. Especially, when the person is me, a guy, who is chinese, but doesn't speak chinese... And what was I gonna buy? meat... of all things, because i'm sick of chicken, oh and other stuff too.

Buying the other stuff is easy, its packed and put in plastic bags, so you just take them of the shelves and pay at the counter. But meat is a whole different story. Its like at the market, and the guy chops the meat according to how much you want. I wanted pork ribs(bak kut), minced meat, and the fatty meat(sam chan yuk... dunno whether this term is really correct or not)

So, this is my conversation with the ah pak(ap):

me: lei dei yao mou pai kuat ar?

ap: yao... lei you gei dor ar?

me: erm.... tim gong le...

ap: (cutting the pai kuat) gam dak mou? sam tiu?

me: (relieved) oo... dak la dak la...

ap: zhong yao meh mou?

me: lei dei yao mou yuk sui ar? (yuk sui is minced meat in canto)

ap: yao... you gei dor ar? (stares at me)

me: lei dei tim mai ar?

ap: lei you gei dor ngor ma bei lei gei dor lo...

me: errr... (silence - because I forgot pounds in canto, almost wanted to say yat kan, one catty)

ap: lei you yat pong ar, leung pong ar?

me: oh, yat pong jou kau lo...

ap: hai hai, ji dou ji dou

me: zhong yao, lei yao mou "wu hua rou" <-- mandarin? (tempted to say mm fa yuk... lol)

ap: (strong china accent)"wu hua rou"... you you... ni yao duo shau? (Suddenly... the conversation turned to mandarin pulak...)

me: errr... ni na lai wo kan kan

ap: che yang gou ma?

me: gou liao gou liao.

ap: hai you shen me ma?

me: mei you mei you, che yang gou liao. xie xie. (rushes to the counter)

And there you have it... KY's first real canto-cum-mandarin conversation. For those that really know how I talk in chinese, you'll be laughing to bits if you were there. For those that don't know, let's just say, it's better not knowing. Anyway, I got my stuff, I'm happy, and that's all that matters.