Speaking of Chinese, I heard a good proverb last week: "The man who waits for roast duck to fly into his mouth waits a very long time" I thought that one was kinda cute.... JCO
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Alan Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT - Chinese Ducks-was: Happy Holidays to All I think another reason that the name "Peking-duck" was called because most Chinese restaurants are opened and operated by Chinese people from Canton which is the very southern part of China. In China, we have different kinds of Chinese restaurants which are designated by the regions. Yours regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan >Well, that's what I thought, too. But a couple of posts back, Alan >explained that "Peking" is in fact the Cantonese name for Beijing. IIRC, >most or many Chinese immigrants to North America (and probably Britain as >well) were Cantonese speaking, so perhaps that's why we in the West adopted >"Peking" as the name for the capital of China. > >At least that's the case for Canada; until recently the majority of >Chinese-Canadians were Cantonese speaking. I believe that they may still >be in the majority, but of late more and more Mandarin speaking Chinese >have been arriving. > >cheers, >frank _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin .msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
