If you are called a banana, you are yellow on the outside which means a Chinese but white inside, which means westernize inside. An egg is a person who is white on the outside, a Westerner but yellow inside which means a westerner who stick to Chinese culture or ways. Sounds interesting isn’t it?
Sad to say I am often called a banana because I am a Chinese but I don’t know any mandarin or write/read any Chinese characters. I do speak Cantonese, one of the Chinese dialect and love watching Cantonese Hong Kong TVB series.
The other day a friend of mine gave me a Chinese website with lots of goodies about iPhone. I wanted to install some application but I have no clue what was on the website. It is Babelfish to the rescue. Now http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ allows me to enter the website URL and it will translate most of the Chinese characters in the website. It is just so cool.
Now I can understand Chinese sites using babelfish. Try it, it is fun.
me too…100% banana…know none Chinese dialect at all but can differentiate betwee, Mandarin, Hokkien and Cantonese and understand a teeny, weeny bit.
i would definitely try the babel fish. thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this! I can go check out some Chinese sites that sell Bento stuff now!!!!