Well there you go i have now learnt that the largest political party in the world is the Bharatiya Janata Party in India.
Big Brother is everywhere.
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Chai-Nah
Go to India nowadays if you want selfie requests.
Ni hao fellow gweilo’s.
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The call of the South, gweilo’s (White Ghosts), it’s Wei Guo Ren in my parts now.
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…how difficult is it to google chinese for fellow? You could even throw in a chinese character or 2 to impress us. Not this one.
It’s a type of Shaanxi rice noodle. I just found a restaurant on the GC that makes authentic Shaanxi food. Very unusual to get real chinese food in Oz.
太难了
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Interesting.
When I was I visited the land of prosperity in late 2012, I remember walking into a 7/11 type store, and the too guys behind the counter go “ahhhh gweilo” which made me LOL.
Took me a while to get used to being stared at, I’m a decent shade of pale. I didn’t fall for the tea house scam though. Not sure if that affected my social credit score.
That’s actually mixing Mandarin, English and Cantonese together. 
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I’m fluent in Chinglish, but Mengonese is beyond me.
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Over in SE Asia we have Singlish and Manglish, which are really quite unique slang.
Neither, but I was shattered when I learned that they really weren’t in to me 
I had no idea it was a cultural norm for Australians to eat cats.
News to me.
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Trust you didn’t eat it after a few more beers?
He was doing the eyes when he wrote it.
No, but it explained why a number of us has sores on our lips in the following week.
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You’re not saying it right.
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Ah Geoff Raby, now there is a very old school Ambassador. I will have to see how if i can tune in somehow. Unfortunately iView which seems to carry some of it is blocked in China and even using a VPN is detects this and is still blocked.
One of my local trainees from up north showed my co-trainer a character she had never seen before. Neither of them, nor anyone else in the class could read it.