Pirate and Invasion? Man, that's some WW II ill will I guess. I notice we don't carry much or any anger really for Pearl Harbor, but how do you guys we think we would feel if Germany had invaded us? What about people in Japan, what do they think about the 2 nukes we dropped on them.
You may very well be right, but General Tso or General Zuo is a known historical figure in Chinese history from the latter half of the 19th century. I have it from a professor I respect that General Zuo actually liked the way said chicken was prepared. These stories do not have to be mutually exclusive however. I like General Tso's chicken.
To my understanding, it's a famous Sichuan dish. Cooking the meat twice makes the it soaked with flavor and a little on the dry side. The pork should be lean and fatty in the same piece. In reality, I doubt they really bother to cook it twice. Being a Chinese, I can't understand the fixation of some Chinese' thinking on food. Some of them think eating an animal organ is good for the corresponding organ in human body. Eating liver is good for your liver, pig kidney, blood, and brain goes the same.
Japan : Nintendo Sega Sony China: Cheap Tiger Electronic Video Games USA: The box, XBOX that is. Bill Gates
Being Japanese, I often have to hear an earful about the 2 nukes everytime a topic about Pearl Harbor, nuclear attacks, or WWII comes up. I've always resented Truman and his decision, and Japan should not have been used as an example for other countries daring to mess with the U.S. The war in the pacific was pretty much over when Truman ordered not one, but two nukes dropped in major Japanese cities. The thing that gives me the most sense of partiotism is how they recovered in the post-WWII era. From a country the size of CA, Japan was able to accomplish so much in terms of technology, economy, and education. Basketball, however, is not one of those accomplishments...
Pirate : I read a lot of books on Chinese history. It is very interesting to find out that there were so few positive descriptions on Japan in millions of Chinese books for more than 2000 years. The word of Japan and pirate always appeared at the same time. One story is: 100 Japanese pirates defeated 100 thousand chinese army in Nanjing city 600 years ago. They are so tough. Invasion: I am a chinese. I think every chinese can feel the invasion though it is 70 years old. If you have no idea why chinese suffered so much, you can bring a tool, dig the ground of Northeast of CHina, you will easily find the bones , made by Japan. Two nukes dropped in Japan? To me, they are candy. Small but sweet.
You mean Sei Ree Pak? Nice try. BTW, why classify the Asian culture by food? We don't say all Africans eat fried chicken and chitlens, do we?
The Japanese written language was derived from chinese characters, but the spoken language has very little to do with Chinese. Originally, everything was written in Chinese (not just using the characters, but actual Chinese). Adapting the Chinese characters to the Japanese language was problematic because Japanese includes numerous gramatical markers and other constructs that didn't work with the Chinese characters too well. Over time, two syllabaries were created (Hiragana and Katakana) from the chinese characters. The characters are relatively simple looking characters and there aren't that many of them (I can't remember the exact figure). Each character represents a syllable in Japanese. All Japanese syllables consist of a consonent sound followed by a vowel sound, a vowel sound, or 'n'. Basically they phoenetically spell out words. The chinese characters are still used, but for most reading, the number of 'kanji' (as they are called) has been reduced to a little under 2000 characters. So modern written Japanese is created using a combination of kanji, hiragana, and katakana. yay me!
Thanks for you insight. I have several Korean friends and they all will tell you that the prejudice between all of the East Asian cultures is worse than anything we see here. So mishii's comment about confusing cultural differences is very true. To mistake a Japanese man for a Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese or any combination of the above is very insulting to all involved.
No offense for any one... I heard this one long time ago... BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD TO HAVE: Chinese food American salary French dress Japanese wife WORST THINGS TO HAVE: Japanese food Chinese salary Russian dress American wife (I said I didn't create this one!)
