What's New?
23rd August
Well time has flown and lots has happened with my life.
I am now a
proud father and as such site updates have been impacted I'm afraid!
CantoDict is still going strong though and I hope to find time for some useful updates soon.
On a less positive note, we are currently undergoing a spam attack, so please bear with us while we
try and deal with this.
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Last 10 posts in our forums:
Re: There is a new route to flee persecution from autocratic regimes and file for political asylum in the US 05/10/2026 by ♭♫
[+-]It would be better to sneak into Spain than to the USA for political asylum. Desperation leads to poor decisions.
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05/09/2026 by ♭♫
[+-]The United Nations creates more problems than it solves.
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I voted for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz bid for the White House and now they have made me more of a Conservative Republican. I am glad that my Democratic vote did not count as they prove to be unpatriotic and do not stand for American interests. I agree with President Trump to withdraw from the United Nations and NATO because I feel their budgets do not deliver a good rate of return as an investment from American taxes. There is no such thing as international law as it only exists on paper without any teeth or any regulatory enforcement hence the political abuses China and Russia exploits seems to always get away without consequences especially with crimes against humanity. Since Europe has done nothing to assist with American operations in Iran, I won't be surprised if Europe does nothing when America seizes Greenland. After Iran, I won't be surprised if PyongYang is next because we now know from Iran that Chinese weapons are useless and China will not come to the aide to help their allies.
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VP Kamala Harris should now announce her trip to Taiwan with the G-7 countries and play cat and mouse whether or not she will go to Taiwan just before Xi JinPing is inaugurated to leader for life.
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Shooting down Pelosi is a declaration of war with the United States and NATO. The CCP can't afford to isolate itself like Russia and suffer a backlash from NATO Article 5.
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A propagandist for the Chinese government warned that the plane carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be attacked.
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05/08/2026 by ♭♫
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Re: Chinatowns Ain't Nothing But Ghettos 05/04/2026 by ♭♫
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The Real Reason Every Chinatown Is Secretly the Same... Cantonese 05/04/2026 by ♭♫
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By the 1930s, most of the Chinese merchants lost their leases as the area was redeveloped. As a result, Chinatown moved to the French Quarter. By the 1940s, about 10 Chinese-owned businesses filled the 500 and 600 blocks of Bourbon Street. Smaller in number than the original enclave, most of those Chinese businesses and residents were gone by the 1970s. 05/03/2026 by ♭♫
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Re: Cool Asian Kids Who Love To Dance 05/03/2026 by ♭♫
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Re: Let's talk Chinese American Food 05/03/2026 by ♭♫
[+-]My father made his living at Trader Vic's in San Francisco and his Canton-born Taishanese uncle from Shanghai (married a Shanghai-born Cantonese and they both fled Shanghai before the Japanese invasion and raised a family in San Francisco Chinatown) was the hiring manager at San Francisco's Trader Vic's. As a kid when I visited this restaurant, I remember the kitchen staff was mostly ethnic-Chinese so I do not believe that the business owner Victor Bergeron was the inventor of crab rangoon. When the restaurant closed their San Francisco location, it was only natural for all these laid off Chinese chefs to open their own Chinese-American restaurants and prioritizing putting the crowd-pleasing crab rangoon on their money-making menus.
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10 Foods You Think Are CHINESE But Were Invented In AMERICA
If you walk into a Chinese takeout restaurant in America, the menu looks Chinese. But some of the most famous “Chinese” dishes in the United States were actually invented in America.
In this video, we break down 10 foods people think are Chinese but were invented in America — including General Tso’s chicken, orange chicken, chop suey, crab rangoon, beef and broccoli, egg rolls, fortune cookies, and more.
American Chinese food is its own cuisine: built by immigrants, adapted for American tastes, and served in tens of thousands of restaurants across the country. But many of the dishes Americans associate with China do not exist in China at all. 05/03/2026 by ♭♫
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What They're Burning for the Dead in San Francisco's Chinatown
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For Christmas, I plan to visit the cemetery. There are places in Chinatown where you can find gifts to give to those who have crossed over. If Christmas is part of your tradition, then you can find something at these Chinatown mom and pop shops to send a Christmas gift to those who you miss dearly by burning the gift at their resting place.
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Do today's contemporary Chinese still strongly believe that closure is absolutely necessary in order to make a smooth transition into the next life?
Call me old school, but I think meeting death without closure (ie departing this reality with unresolved personal issues) will keep the soul constantly encountering the same problems crippling him/her over & over again until there is closure be it this lifetime or the next or the next thereafter...etc.
I was thinking about this when I "corrected" the chopstick habits of a young Korean who stuck his chopsticks vertical into his noodles a few weeks ago in front of me. I pulled his chopsticks out and placed them flat against the rim of the bowl...perhaps I was imposing Chinese values on him...I don't really know...but then later he offered me tea.
People often say vertical free standing chopsticks is just bad luck because it resembles an incense offering to the dead...however the interpretation I received when I was young is that restless souls see vertical chopsticks as an invitation to join you if it isn't specifically offered to an ancestor...and I was warned that when they come uninvited they may not want to leave your home.
I've often wondered where do restless souls go when they are stuck and can't move forward. I wonder about these restless souls during QingMing/Tomb Sweeping Day. I wonder if a little compassion makes a difference to them if so then how can it be demonstrated to them when it might be too late. Life is already too short and so I often wonder if I'll end up as one of them.
Some people will dismiss this as superstition...but I feel they need to learn how to respect other peoples belief systems which may be older than their own and start questioning what they themselves believe in.
Call me old school...but it's the only school I believe in even though I may be the last one left to graduate.
05/02/2026 by ♭♫
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