Jumbo Kingdom is a famed restaurant in Hong Kong. According to a post from CNN , Jumbo Kingdom is the World’s largest floating restaurant. That’s why we have to try it. Everyone is welcome to join for a hangout among Local Guides in HK. Welcome to bring your own friends even they are not LGs yet. (Surely they will be one after the gathering.)
We can try out night mode on the phone @TonyChu !!!
@TsekoV : It totally depends, I have been back more recently in the last few years. Partly because flights to Asia at much cheaper than flights to Europe! It’ll be great to meet you somewhere, Europe or Asia!
The restaurant that you chose as a meeting spot also looks great, hopefully next time we can also come with @Shirley . : )
As for the flights @Shirley , indeed it looks like recently flights got cheaper to Asia and I am happy about it. : ) I am also very curious to learn more and more about Canada. I have studied French language for many years and I know people there do speak this language. What is more I know there winters are quite snowy and white and I am a winter-loving person.
@TsekoV : Canada is very different depending on where you are. I spent many years learning French but cannot really speak because very few people are fluent outside of Quebec province. Vancouver is also one of the few cities that doesn’t get very much snow, but plenty in the mountains, which is only 30 minutes away from the city! Most of us don’t enjoy the snow on the roads, but will go to the mountains for snowboarding or skiing! I have a trip coming up soon myself!
It is great when you can practice a language with natives @Shirley , but if it is hard to find them, learning it indeed is quite hard.
I am really looking forward to knowing more about those great mountains. These two words mountains and snow are of the things I like the most. Still, snow on the roads is a problem for everyone, but when you can enjoy it out of the city is simply beautiful and peaceful. Today will be the first day it is going to snow here in Bulgaria and I can’t wait to see the first snowflakes for the winter. I am so much excited about it.
Hopefully later you could share some great photos of those mountains.
@TsekoV , I live in the San Francisco Bay Area where a lot of the descendants of Hong Kongers, Macau, and from Canton (now Guangdong province) came from post California Gold Rush of 1849 to work as laborers for building the railroads, farms, ranches, flowers (prior to Silicon Valley being known for what it is today, there were fruit orchards and cut flower cultivation all along San Jose up to Menlo Park).
i am one of those descendants, 5 generations, born here in San Francisco. They came because of famine and for a better life. The Chinese name for San Francisco translates to “Gold Mountain.” My family is from Guangdong, what was known as Toishan and Macau. They came and never left the area.
Speak a little Cantonese. Studied Mandarin for years (but no one in my family speaks so that was hard). My Chinese comes in handy when I am in Hong Kong or mainland China. I get smiles from both.
We celebrate all of the Chinese holidays and customs that go along with them. We even incorporate “Chinese” into major American holidays - such as Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Hope this helps explain a little little more about me.
I understand, thank you @KarenVChin . So 旧金山 is San Francisco. I like the meaning of those words.
Do you like getting back to your origins and visiting those places? It is more than great that you and your family remembers where exactly you come from and keep it inside you.
In Cantonese, “hello” is “leihou” if I am not mistaken?