Vocabulary Archives - Hong Kongese Speak Cantonese

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018

Religions

You may know China government is controlling and persecuting the religions in mainland China from newspaper. Or you may query that if it happens in Hong Kong too. I can reply you that religious freedom is one of the fundamental rights enjoyed by Hong Kong residents. Hong Kong is still alright under the protection of the Basic Law and other relevant legislation.

Therefore, I can share how to say the religious words in Cantonese in this post 🙂 . Due to the colonial and Chinese society background, you can find different religions in Hong Kong. They are mainly Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism, but we still have some people believing other religions.

Continue reading “Religions”

November 18, 2018October 25, 2018

Livestock

In this post, we will talk about the names of different kinds of livestock we can find in the wet market. Surely not including dog meat, it is a forbidden food in Hong Kong. 🙂

In Chinese culture, we eat all kind of meat, for example pork, beef and lamb. The most popular one is pork, for we can cook it in various ways. We use different part of pork to cook different dishes according to the pork’s texture. For the bone, we cook soup with vegetable or Chinese medicine.

The information is abstracted from the food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd. It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat (livestock), vegetable and etc.

There are no related photos in this post, but you can find the photos by clicking the Chinese characters which are linked to the database. Continue reading “Livestock”

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018

Domestic fowl

We finished how to say fish and aquatic product in Cantonese in the last few posts. This time we will talk about the names of domestic fowl.

In Chinese culture, we don’t only eat the meat of domestic fowl and livestock, but also eat their internal organs, like liver. You will also learn how to say the different parts of the body in Cantonese.

November 4, 2018October 25, 2018

Aquatic product

In the previous two posts, we published the topics of sea fish and fresh water fish. This time we will talk about the names of aquatic product.

You will learn how to say oyster, lobster, cuttlefish and etc in this post.

Again the information is abstracted from the food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd. It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat, vegetable and etc.

There are no related photos in this post, but you can find the photos by clicking the Chinese characters which are linked to the database. Continue reading “Aquatic product”

October 28, 2018October 25, 2018

Fresh water fish

We will continue the series of “how to say it in Cantonese”. This time we will talk about the names of fresh water fish.

There are no related photos in this post, but you can find the photos by clicking the Chinese characters which are linked to the database. Continue reading “Fresh water fish”

September 23, 2018September 30, 2018

Tools

September 20, 2018October 10, 2018

Sea fish

Why not no “How to survive” series for a long time?

I have been thinking of continuing the series “How to survive in Hong Kong Wet Market” for a long time, but there were a lot of difficulties. It is hard to find photos in various kinds of seafood, meat and other foods. Copyright of photos is another issue to prevent it happen. Making video without good photos cannot be achieved!

Recently, I found a website of food database built by the Association For Hong Kong Catering Services Management Ltd. It categorized the food into different sorts – sea fish, meat, vegetable and etc. Then I started thinking of changing my target from making videos to writing posts. Continue reading “Sea fish”

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018

Kung Fu

Last year, when I started the facebook page, one of my subscribers told me that he loved Chinese Kung Fu. I promised him I would make a video about Kung Fu’s Cantonese, but up to now, I have no idea how I can make it interesting. Due to license issue, I can’t use copyright videos in my channel and if just teaching Cantonese, I don’t need to make a video.

Therefore, I will introduce some words of the Kung Fu manual “圖解詠春拳” (tou4 gaai2 wing6 ceon1 kyun4) in this post. The ebook I found in a facebook page. This book was originally written by a student of Bruce Lee and then Bruce Lee revised it. Hope that you are interested in this book.