Are you hungry but too lazy to get behind the stove? Don’t feel like ordering takeaway (点外卖 diǎn wàimài) again? Tired of boring instant noodles (方便面 fāngbiànmiàn) and annoying dishwashing (不想洗碗 bù xiǎng xǐwǎn)?There is good news for all slackers (懒鬼 lǎnguǐ) and couch potatoes (宅人 zháirén): In China, you can buy meals that practically […]
You’ve already put your feet up, but now you suddenly crave a roast chicken from your favorite chicken joint on the other side of town? You don’t feel like waiting in line at the trendy barbecue, but you still need a reservation? You’re too exhausted to go out and stretch your legs, but your four-legged […]
Are you looking for a career change? Then make sure that you don’t fall victim to a radish recruitment when browsing through the open jobs in your occupational field. The Chinese saying goes: 一个萝卜一个坑 yí gè luóbo yí gè kēng. Loosely translated: Each radish grows in its own hole. And that means: As far as […]
Let’s be honest: We all have a bit of a marketing strategist inside us who knows how to present ourselves well. And we generally know precisely which clientele we can best sell which product to. With Asian men – including Chinese men – 萌 méng – i.e., “cuteness” – is a great seller, at least […]
The European Football Championship is on. Which means that the action on the pitch is once again fierce. Unfortunately, the fierce duels on the pitch result in numerous football widows outside the pitch. Thankfully, we’re not talking about actual deaths here. Because the spouse is not turning in his grave, but at the very most […]
Are you fenced in at work by folders and filing cabinets, grazing on bland lettuce leaves from the canteen, watering yourself in the cramped coffee kitchen? Is your boss giving you a hard time with his strict schedules and miserable salary? Then it’s time you were let out to pasture again!In modern Chinese, this is […]
Did you know that there are not only iPhones, iPads and iWatches in China, but also iPeople? However, they have absolutely nothing to do with Apple. They are part of a letter oracle that has been circulating through China’s internet landscape for some time now. It is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI for short, […]
China has a problem with naked cadres! If you’re now thinking of nudism in the NPC (goodness gracious!), then I must stop you there. Because the undressed civil servants we are talking about are isolated cases, not a mass nudist movement. What’s more, in this scenario, civil servants don’t really strip naked. It’s more about […]
What do the coaching scene, multi-level marketing and the exploitation of interns have in common? In all these fields, Chinese chives are harvested by the bunch! You heard right, at least your Chinese ear did.Harvesting chives, or more precisely “cutting garlic chives,” in Chinese 割韭菜 gē jiǔcài (from 割 gē “to cut, sever” and 韭菜 […]
And how are your brain circuits wired? Are all your synapses hopelessly tuned to romance? Have matters of the heart gone so to your head that most of your thoughts revolve around your loved one?Dissected with the linguistic scalpel of Mandarin, China’s online community comes to the razor-sharp conclusion in such cases: you have (and […]