Durian Deng
he might be rough and tough on the outside, but on the inside he's a stinky softie
Krem
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fruit pie, nana, grape
gammon inglan, give us an ape
I was thinking about from a learner's perspective. and local people, especially middle age and older, don't talk like people on TV.
but yeah sichuanese or like hubeinese with their weird bendy tones and stuff is way more difficult for me as a non-native than southeastern mandarin, but i found most people in central/western china can code-switch to a kind of standard mandarin as well
since southerners including taiwanese don't distinguish s/sh, z/zh, c/ch, and in some cases r/l and f/h, it could be a bit difficult to listen and understand for beginners.
i was travelling in Vietnam a few months ago and considered taking the train from Hanoi to Danang. a friend did it last year and looked pretty comfy.
looks close enough on the map and i've been spoiled by hsr in mainland China and Taiwan. well Vietnam has no hsr but it should at least be as fast as a regular train right? like 8 hours at the most? nope, almost 20. ended up not taking the train and just staying longer in hanoi instead.
Vietnam really needs to suck it up and ask China to build their railway up.
we were also in Laos and considered taking the new HSR from Luang Prabang to Vientiane. built by the chinese and looks like the chinese HSR, even connects to Yunnan, should be great. turns out tickets are crazy expensive (LPB to Vientiane costs about the same as a cross-country ticket in China) and also you have to book them half a week in advance
sigh, the chinese system really is the best in the world, not even close
famous non-reader mao zedong. guy who wrote poetry with a calligraphy brush? guy who could probably quote much of water margin? no actually he just read two books
oh yeah i'm wasting a lot of time adjusting objects along xyz axes in planet zoo right now. but the late 90s/early 2000s were a magic age of very average games with blurry isometric pre-rendered graphics named "___ tycoon"
whatever happened to tyccoon games
mediterranean spain and greece are like the number one tourist destinations in europe? especially for beached moby-dick anglos, dutch and nordics. i'm sure you can find some dystopian resort town where you can stagger around all day between "irish" bars and all-day breakfasts and chip shops and only interact with other northern baron harkonnens, and maybe some local service staff.
so what's this guy's problem with south europe? that there are some north african people there, and non euros are scary? that the local people are somewhat tanned because it's sunnier and therefore 
? or is he doing the dennis hopper in true romance bit unironically?
let's see what this dude finds acceptable:
- good tier: scandinavia except anywhere within a two-hour drive of stockholm (isn't malmo the place in scandinavia that rightoids love to hate?)
- ok tier: estonia (??), former occupied germany, finance mountain, west poland (???), apple italy, french b*lgium, an incomprehensible section of france
- questionable tier: stockholm and the surrounding countryside, republic of ireland, latvthuania, former ddr, pasta italy, bohemia, austria, the parts of former yuguslavia where any anglo tourist has ever been, le epic weed and stag night nederland, nederflanders
- scary tier:
, bretagne (???), provence (????), central poland, east czechia (??), slovakia, belarus, atlantic spain - i pee my pants tier: middle spain/portugal, pizza italy, the french riviera, east poland, greece, romania, bulgaria
- literally mordor tier: le ebil russia, orbania, the place in former yugoslavia where they had wars and stuff, basque country (?) mediterranean spain, south portugal, mafia italy
...
is it just + places that were socialist + muslim migrant + risk of pickpocketing?
红烧素牛肉面。用猴头菇或者植物蛋白肉
Ail Ditler