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8A Sackville St
Mayfair, London
W1S 3EZ
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Website: http://www.murgerhan.com/
Last checked: 2019/01
Cuisine: Xi'an
Biangbiang noodles with all extras zhongla is amazing!!! Niuroupaomo OK, but not exciting. Roujiamo not very interesting, too bland for my taste.
[[resturants--uk--london--tier-2]]
===== London tier 2
[[restaurants--uk--london--chinese-tapas-house-london]]
====== Chinese Tapas House
Address:
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Little Newport Street
WC2H 7JJ
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Not yet on Google maps so I don know the number, but the street is very small so should be easy to find.
Jianbing guozi, interesting spicy fast food.
[[restaurants--uk--london--rice-coming-restaurant]]
====== Rice Coming Restaurant 米齐临
Rice noodles are good, and small dishes authentic.
Address: 10A Coptic St, Holborn, London WC1A 1NH
Last checked: 2019-04
Website: https://ricecoming.business.site/
[[restaurants--uk--cambridge]]
==== Cambridge 剑桥
[[restaurants--uk--cambridge--spring-restaurant]]
===== Spring Restaurant 春天
Address:
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66 Mill Rd
CB1 2AS
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Last checked: 2017/08
Spicy chicken with pasta and potatoes.
[[restaurants--uk--cambridge--seven-days]]
===== Seven Days 天天美食剑桥
Address:
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66 Regent St
CB2 1DP
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[[resturants--uk--cambridge--72-china]]
===== @72 China
Address:
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72 Regent St
CB2 1DP
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Douhuaniurou 豆花牛肉, kaoyu.
[[resturants--uk--cambridge--golden-house]]
===== Golden House
Address:
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12 Lensfield Rd
CB2 1EG
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Meicaikourou, luobo bing.
[[restaurants--uk--cambridge--1-1-rougamo]]
===== 1 + 1 Rougamo
Tier: 2
Address:
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84 Regent St
CB2 1DP
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Last checked: 2019/05
Roujiamo very good. Also good: broad noodles, 凉皮.
[[restaurants--uk--oxford]]
==== Oxford 牛津
[[restaurants--uk--oxford--a-taste-of-china]]
===== A Taste Of China 三秦百味
Tier: 2
https://goo.gl/maps/oERKCv6Q8a32
Last checked: 2019/03
Redamian good, Biangbiangmian not as interesting. Nice people working there. Two two seat tables only, mostly takeaway. Fair price.
[[restaurants--uk--oxford--xi-an]]
===== Xi'an
Tier: 3
https://goo.gl/maps/DrDCPKWnG2M2
Last checked: 2019/03
Not real Chinese food I'm afraid. Songshuyu not cut correctly into stripes and too much liquid sauce. Sijidou beans not dry enough, maybe need more frying. Early immigration (1968, mentioned on menu), almost no Chinese clients. Nice decoration and environment.
[[restaurants--uk--sheffield]]
==== Sheffield 谢菲尔德
* China Red Restaurant
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3 Rockingham Gate, Sheffield S1 4JD, United Kingdom
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Last checked: 2016/06, shuizhuyu.
[[restaurants--brazil]]
=== Brazil 巴西
[[restaurants--brazil--sao-paulo]]
==== Sao Paulo 圣保罗
* Chuanxiangyuan Restaurante (川香园餐馆 )
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\R. Barão de Iguape, 47 - Liberdade, São Paulo - SP
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Eat the big fish dishes, they are worth it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqi_feipian was not very good.
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Free tea was good.
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Rice could be better.
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Owners are actually from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin , not Sichuan, as implied by the 川 in the name of the restaurant. GF told me that those big fish dishes are typical from there.
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Last checked: 2016/01/09
[[restaurants--canada]]
=== Canada 加拿大
[[restaurants--canada--montreal]]
==== Montreal 加拿大蒙特利尔，
Last checked: 2016/01
* Cuisine Szechuan
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2350 Rue Guy, Montréal, QC H3H 2M2, Canada
* Kanbai
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1110 Rue Clark, Montréal, QC H2Z 1K3, Canada Good
* Délice oriental
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1858 Rue Ste-Catherine O, Montréal, QC H3H 1M1
Not worth it:
* Chez Chili
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1050B rue Clark
== Chinese television 中国电视
Modern themed television is generally crap due to <<censorship>>, but this leads to a big focus on ancient stuff, and some of it is amazing.
* 1994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series) | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/三国演义_(电视剧) The best https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms[Three Kingdoms 三国] adaptation of all time? Mind blowing. There seems to exist a version with full Chinese + English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_r3eWfTMDs&list=PLdAMXqGeRsOkXzuocRkBPhe5RhZ6RotGH&index=2
[[learn-chinese]]
== Tips to learn Chinese 学习中文方法建议
Perapera and Pleco, obviously: <<does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese>>
* 几分钟看完: illegal 10 minute summaries of movies with clips from the movies and a narrator speaking quickly instead of movie sounds.
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Some have Chinese subtitles, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFSMvtS6SYQ and it is great content to learn from, because it is someone telling a not too boring story in a natural and clear way, with supporting images to help with context.
=== Chinese character sentence component mnemonic systems
Associate one word to each character/character component.
One good way to find mnemonics is to just Google for whatever random words you want to fit into a sentence. You end up learning fun things this way, and those make the best mnemonics.
Then to learn a new character, break it down into components, and create a sentence or short story that includes all the component words.
* http://rtega.be/chmn/ CC-BY-NO-SA but not clear way to contribute to it
* Proprietary books
** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824833236 "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson from 2008. This is the classic.
** https://www.amazon.com/dp/9881919339 STICK by Dr. Melanie Schmidt ed.
** https://www.amazon.com/dp/109565960X "Learn Chinese Characters: Easy Mnemonics to Memorize Hanzi: 400+ Characters, 700+ Vocabulary, 1300+ Practice Questions with Solutions" by L Castelluzzo
Japanese Kanji:
* proprietary:
** https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kanji-radicals-mnemonic-method/
** https://www.wanikani.com/
Single author open source Pleco + "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" in a single .adoc file? Let's go.
We'd use http://rtega.be/chmn/ as basis if it weren't for the NO in CC-BY-NO-SA? But that NO is evil, what the heck does it even mean to gain money from something? Too restrictive.
Format will be very constant, database like. Would therefore be cool to parse it from the Asciidoctor into a proper database as a way to verify and allow third party usage.
Base mnemonic components can come more or less directly from the 214 Kangxi radicals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
One key principle is that characters and words often don't have a well translatable meaning: the minimal always translatable unit is a sentence: <<sentences>>!
You can't fully learn a language by learning words and characters alone, you must learn sentences.
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[[<character>]]
=== <character> (<pinyin>, <mnemonic name>)
* <chinese-word-containing>
* <chinese-word-containing>
* <character-containing>
* <character-containing>
Translations:
* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
Notes:
* `Translations` is only used when it is a single character word, if it goes inside a word, only the word will contain the sentence
Mnemonic: the dot indicates something that stays on top of the head of a king (<<王>>)
Notes: there is no "proper" Chinese name for this, it is just known as "the top part of <<青>>" (青字頭) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/龶
Characters:
* <<青>>
[[巴]]
==== 巴 (ba1, Brazil)
Characters:
* <<爬>>
Words:
* <<巴西>>
[[匕]]
==== 匕 (bi3, spoon)
Mnemonic: an ancient spoon, looks like this: https://read01.com/aAEn50x.html#.XnfZDN_niV4 "古人吃饭最早不用筷子，用的是“匕”，那“匕”是什么？
Mnemonic: the kangxi description is "divination". Since this is completely unrelated to common contexts of modern people, we select a wand use a magic-related object that can be easily put into fun stories: a magic wand.
[[车]]
==== 车 (che1, car)
Characters:
* <<轮>>
[[寸]]
==== 寸 (cun4, inch)
Characters:
* <<讨>>
Mnemonic: that **evening** (<<夕>>), **one** (<<一>>) **supervillain** attacked us!
[[对]]
==== 对 (dui4, correct)
Mnemonic: to progress slowly, adding **inch** (<<寸>>) by inch, **again** (<<又>>) and again, is the correct way to progress
Characters:
* <<树>>
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[[艮]]
==== 艮 (gen4, root)
Characters:
* <<根>>
[[根]]
==== 根 (gen1, roots)
Mnemonic: **roots** one **root** (<<艮>>) plus one root and lots of **wood** (<<木>>)
[[禾]]
==== 禾 (he2, grain)
Mnemonic: **one** <<一>> **grain** of **root** (<<艮>>) plus one root and lots of **wood** (<<木>>)
Characters:
* <<私>>
* <<和>>
[[和]]
==== 和 (he2, harmonious)
Mnemonic: nothing is more **harmonious** than putting some **grains** <<禾>> in your **mouth** <<口>>
Characters:
* <<私>>
* <<和>>
[[口]]
==== 口 (kou3, mouth)
Chars:
* <<台>>
* <<和>>
Mnemonic: there must exist a **list** of **supervillains** (<<歹>>) with **knives** (<<刀>>) on the web? A knife-yielding supervillain **list**! https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/
[[仑]]
==== 仑 (lun2, logic)
Mnemonic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory[spoon theory] is very logical and explains how using **spoons** (<<匕>>) is a good metaphor for a **person**'s (<<人>>) energy consumption
Characters:
* <<论>>
Mnemonic: "**rationale**" the fancy way that engineers **say** (<<言>>) "**logic**" (<<仑>>)
Mnemonic: it is pretty **logical** (<<仑>>) that a **car** (<<车>>) needs **wheels**
[[木]]
==== 木 (mu4, wood)
Characters:
* <<根>>
Words:
* <<木头>>
Mnemonic: you need **claws** (<<爪>>) to **climb** (爬) **Brazil**'s (<<巴>>) tallest mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_da_Neblina[Pico da Neblina]
[[攴]]
==== 攴 (pu1, to tap)
Short forms: 攵
Mnemonic: to transform a frog into a princess, you have to **tap** your **magic wand** (<<卜>>) **again and again** (<<又>>) on it
Characters:
* <<政>>
[[丬]]
==== 丬 (qiang2, split wood)
Characters: <<状>>
Mnemonic: the **crown** (<<龶>>) of the king was **blue** and **moon-shaped** (<<月>>)
Notes: it is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan[green-blue/Cyan], see also https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/青色 but let's call it blue because it will be used in many constructs.
[[犬]]
==== 犬 (quan3, dog)
Short forms: 犭
Characters:
* <<状>>
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[[水]]
==== 水 (shui3, water)
Short forms: 氵,氺
Chars:
* <<治>>
[[厶]]
==== 厶 (si1, private)
Chars:
* <<台>>
* <<私>>
[[私]]
==== 私 (si1, privacy)
Mnemonic: **privacy** is all about storing your precious **grain** <<禾>> in a **private** <<厶>> location
[[树]]
==== 树 (shu4, tree)
Mnemonic: it is **correct** (<<对>>) to say that **trees** (树) are made out of of **wood** (<<木>>)
Mnemonic: in their **discussions** (<<讨论>>), they always **talked** (<<言>>) about how his penis was only one **inch** <<寸>> long
[[台]]
==== 台 (tai2, platform)
Mnemonic: he was doing something **private** (<<厶>>) to her with his **mouth** (<<口>>) on the train **platform**
Characters:
* <<治>>
Words:
* <<台湾>>
[[王]]
==== 王 (wang2, king)
Characters:
* <<龶>>
[[言]]
==== 言 (yan2, speak, say)
Short forms: 讠
[[又]]
==== 又 (you4, again)
Characters:
* <<对>>
[[月]]
==== 月 (yue4, moon)
Characters:
* <<青>>
[[爪]]
==== 爪 (zhao3, claws)
Short forms: 爫
Characters:
* <<爬>>
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[[政]]
==== 政 (zheng4, politics)
Mnemonic: to do **politics** in China, you have to **tap** (<<攴>>) those <<xinjiang,Uyghurs>> on the shoulder and tell them to **straighten** (<<正>>) their backs
Words:
* <<政治>>
[[正]]
==== 正 (zheng4, straighten)
Mnemonic: **one** (<<一>>) **stop** (<<止>>) at the bone doctor is all it takes to **straighten** up your hurting back
Characters:
* <<政>>
[[止]]
==== 止 (zhi3, stop)
Characters:
* <<正>>
Words:
* <<禁止>>
[[治]]
==== 治 (zhi4, cure)
Mnemonic: she **cured** him from his heat stroke with water **water** (<<水>>) right on the train **platform** (<<台>>)
Words:
* <<治愈>>
Mnemonic: imagine a **dog** (<<犬>>) model **shaped** from **split wood** pieces (<<丬>>)
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[[<character>]]
=== <character> (<pinyin>, <mnemonic name>)
* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
* <character-contained>
* <character-contained>
Notes:
* mnemonics are mostly useful for proper nouns, for common nouns, it is usually obvious from the composing characters. This is why Chinese is amazing.
[[巴西]]
==== 巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)
Characters:
* <<巴>>
* 西
[[歹人]]
==== 歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)
Characters:
* <<歹>>
* <<人>>
[[理论]]
==== 理论 (li3 lun4, logic)
Characters:
* 理
* <<论>>
[[木头]]
==== 木头 (mu4 tou, wood, timber or log)
Characters:
* <<木>>
* 头
[[爬行]]
==== 爬行 (pa2 xing2, crawl)
Translations:
* crawl
** <<大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行>>
Characters:
* <<爬>>
* 行
[[台湾]]
==== 台湾 (tai2 wan1, Taiwan)
Mnemonic: <<台>> 湾 TODO
[[讨论]]
==== 讨论 (tao3 luan4, discuss)
Characters:
* <<讨>>
* <<论>>
[[政治]]
==== 政治 (zheng4 zhi4, politics)
Characters:
* <<政>>
* <<治>>
[[治愈]]
==== 治愈 (zhi4 yu4, recover from a disease, be cured from a disease)
Characters:
* <<治>>
* 愈
Format:
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[[<chinese-sentence>]]
==== <chinese-sentence> (<<pinyin>>, <<translation>>)
Source: <<source-url>> (<<source-url-archive>>)
Words: <<sentence-with-linked-breakdown>>
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[[大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行]]
==== 大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行 (Dà duōshù bǎobǎo zài 6-10 gè yuè zhī jiān xuéhuì páxíng, Most babies learn to crawl between 6 and 10 months)
Source: https://baike.pcbaby.com.cn/qzbd/13387.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20180213164914/https://baike.pcbaby.com.cn/qzbd/13387.html[archive])
Words: 大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会<<爬行>>
==== 现有王位觊觎者列表 (Xiàn yǒu wángwèi jìyú zhě lièbiǎo, List of current throne pretenders)