Bizarre Chinese menus of bizarre Chinese take-aways of Prague, Czech Republic

你说你煮鱼给人家吃。可是，你并没有写清楚，是哪一种鱼。
那么，是哪一个品种？有那么多不同名称:

Trout? Cod? Seabream? Seabass? Carp? Alaskan pollock? Garoupa? Sole?

Chinese restaurant in Prague- missing an English-language menu (Dáme jídlo)

We have been having communications with the owners of a Chinese restaurant based in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. They got a Czech-language menu on the portal https://www.damejidlo.cz/ (Dáme jídlo), but they are lacking an English-language menu. Here is why the ‘boss’ of the restaurant business may feel motivated to add the English language to damejidlo.cz immediately:

Simplified Chinese:

在布拉格，有好多美国人、意大利人、葡萄牙人 、罗马利亚人 有专业的工作 比如说 ： 项目经理、办公室经理等等。董事长。副董事长。他们的消费能力很强。可是，他们是看不懂捷克语的。

你多捞点顾客嘛！！！无妨！我知道好多银行家 、办公室经理已经在吃你的饭了。不会嫌弃增多一两个顾客啊！我的捷克大叔朋友说你餐厅那里的中国水饺好吃。他吃了再吃！他本来说他不喜欢吃中国菜。原来是相反的！呵呵！

Traditional Chinese:

在布拉格，有好多美國人、意大利人、葡萄牙人 、羅馬利亞人 有專業的工作 比如說 ： 項目經理、辦公室經理等等。董事長。副董事長。他們的消費能力很強。可是，他們是看不懂捷克語的。

你多撈點顧客嘛！ ！ ！無妨！我知道好多銀行家 、辦公室經理已經在吃你的飯了。不會嫌棄增多一兩個顧客啊！我的捷克大叔朋友說你餐廳那裡的中國水餃好吃。他吃了再吃！他本來說他不喜歡吃中國菜。原來是相反的！呵呵！

Criticisms of Xin Tian Hao Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家) in Prague

The following is a review of Xin Tian Hao Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家), by a customer.

For a start, the name of this Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家) is so pretentious. It reeks of a craving for grandeur, wealth, privileges, exclusivity, money, desirability, a sparkly lifestyle, all these are things that are not attained here at this establishment. Woe to the owners of this restaurant, that they call themselves HAO (豪) but they certainly do not have the table settings, furnishings, and other facilities to go with it. Even the paper napkins of the restaurant are of the crude, rough type and as for the salt mill, pepper mill, the containers of soya sauce and chilli sauce are not even made of glass- they are plastic, which is inferior. I am not saying that there is anything bad about being cheap and tacky, but fundamentally all these tacky elements destroy the name of the restaurant itself. So the founder of this restaurant aspires to such high levels of wealth, privilege, grandness, but never got there, he/she has always fallen short of it.

I am critical of this restaurant’s branding/ logo. It just looks like the graphic designer hasn’t done any work on it at all. They have a dire identity crisis as this is a Chinese restaurant offering sushi which is Japanese, not Chinese. As for the meal that a friend and I had, it is not restaurant-grade at least by the standards of Britain, France and China. It is nothing that I couldn’t have cooked, for myself, at home, and almost all of my cousins cook more delicious food than that, at home. They have never even worked as chefs. They all work full-time, doing something else unrelated.

My friend was reading a book at some point. Lighting was inadequate so I actually switched on a torch at the dinner table. It is neither the romantic candelight sort of dim light setting, nor the bright Chinese restaurant sort of light intensity, to make a book readable.

I conclude that I do not want to go to Xin Tian Hao Restaurant (新天豪酒家) in Prague again. It does not do any justice to China and its richly varied cuisines.

I enjoy watching ‘Downton Abbey’. Why?

Why?

Yeah, as I watch ‘Downton Abbey’, well, I started watching it on TV in Hong Kong, the local TV channel bought the series. Lots of handsome sexy gorgeous men, why wouldn’t I watch Downton Abbey? So, I watch Downton Abbey. You know me. Can’t say no to sexy gorgeous men.
There are many more reasons why I like Downton Abbey, beyond handsome men wearing beautiful clothes. Like, I find the dialogues to be witty, the history is interesting, it is asking me questions about my own life, it is showing me how people get on with their lives and how I could be doing it. It’s so English. They’ve done so much work with the costumes on-set. It’s a really good TV show/ soap opera, in many ways. It’s fun. It’s dazzling. I like many characters of Downton Abbey. 
My Uncle Bob was particularly fond of Mr. Carson. But then he is probably … kindaaaaaa… quite a nutter… If I don’t have him to talk to about Downton Abbey, I could always go out to find somebody else to talk to, about Downton Abbey! 
And if people like to watch Downton Abbey because they like to look at beautiful ladies, then I can’t complain.

A European woman goes sugaring in Central Europe

We have gone to barbecues in Prague, to have merry banter with friends.

A female friend of ours revealed the following:

The normal rate of pay for a sugar baby is 9000 Czech crowns for a whole day or 296 British pounds for a whole day. It can be more money or less money. I say ‘rate of pay’, it is not normally considered to be employment. I think it is not prostitution. Although there are documentaries about sugar babies and one or two theorists put forward the proposition that a sugar baby is equal to a prostitute. And people (sociologists, journalists, psychologists and so on) fiercely debate against that proposition. 
For example, the entrepreneur from Denmark- who formally served in the military for x.y.z years according to him. He used “Tinder” for dating, he met women, he had girlfriends- women really really stressed him out. So while holidaying in Prague he just likes to relax with me.
He agreed on not having sex with me. I agreed on no sex, just a standard social situation. Indeed he never even touched me, paid money on my behalf and provided allowance money to me to compensate for the loss of my time, knowing that if he didn’t occupy my time, I would have been teaching and tutoring in Prague on the basis of being paid hourly fees. He’s pretty empathetic. He didn’t want me to suffer economic losses and associated misery just because I decided to use my time on having fun with him, having a laugh, eating delicious curries.
So, if one or two sugar daddies from last year, or even the year before, are such losers, I don’t HAVE TO pick up the phone, when they call me, or try to call me. If I think that somebody is just a waste of my time, he’s a lost cause, he didn’t even get his own work together, I want to move on, and move ahead, that’s fine. The pity is that I wasn’t educated more about sugar babies. The pity is that I didn’t read enough of a book, or two, about sugar babies, the core principles. 
So, if I don’t go out sugaring, I would be really stupid. It’s a sidey sideliney thing, a hobby; one needs to be careful as there’re loads of scams in the online dating world. Danger isn’t too far away, but then, I mean, I can end up in danger even just talking to the shop to buy a broccoli and three nuts bars. The sugar dating world never placed me in any physical danger whatsoever, and many sugar daddies work at the level of being the chief executive officer of a big corporation. That’s how they can afford sugaring. They might get really stressed out- sometimes they need to relax and literally sip a cup of tea. I have nothing against using my wit and dynamism to chat them up. 
There are sugar babies who operate as sugar babies 40 hours per week. Yes, there can be many moral problems with that. But I also feel sorry for men who can’t get a beauty, not every man is ‘successful’ and ‘sexy’ like my boyfriend. Also ‘traditional’ dating is plagued by loads of problems: murder in marriages, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, betrayal, … … 
If I go sugaring on average 4-6 hours a week, or less, it’d be worth my while- at least financially. 

A Western European person feels baffled by ‘Czech’ or pseudo-Czech goulash

It has been said that: “What the hell is goulash? So I’ve been living in the Czech Republic for five years, and I am still not sure what THAT IS. Don’t get me wrong. The taste of it is pleasant. WHATEVER IT ACTUALLY IS.”

I was looking for a carrot… I got a helicopter.

Oh! Parts of the beginning of chapter 12 of “New Jerusalem News” by John Enright is “absolutely fascinating”? How so? Explain! ! !
I didn’t know what that food was – what they are talking about. So I had to look up images in some kind of an encyclopedia. 

Don’t get me wrong. I love bivalves in general. To eat them, not to use them for decoration. Scallops… … my friends fed stir-fries of scallops with pods of peas to me in Hong Kong. Delicious. Oysters and clams are ok. Mussels are ok. 
I had no idea that the book existed. I went onto google. I wrote: “relative culinary merits of…” so, for example, if anyone wanted to compare roast beef with roast lamb; if anyone wanted to compare this pie with that pie; if anyone wanted to compare broccoli to leek; if anyone wanted to compare Lancashire hotpot with Irish hotpot; if anyone wanted to compare a watermelon with a banana; if anyone wanted to compare gravy with cranberry sauce; but I didn’t find Lancashire hotpot with carrots, meat, and potatoes. I found a helicopter. 
Would you rather get a carrot, or a helicopter? In the TV show “Hunter Street”, the adopted daughter Anika even said that Argentina was the same thing as Antartica, which I found really hilarious. She’s so cute. Especially when she was f**king around at the local library, pretending that she was totally clueless about the fact that the method of getting from the ground floor of the library to the third floor of the library was to walk upstairs to get to the third floor. I love her nonsense. She is very lovely and pretty too. Well, if you follow Anika’s principle, then a carrot is the same thing as a helicopter. Hilarious. 

A household in Prague is low on manpower- let’s watch MasterChef Junior

Among friends, we are talking about this. Our friend is a single parent with two children. There isn’t enough help to get all the cooking and cleaning done, as the father is working full-time and there is no mother.

This week, let’s get your girl watching MasterChef Junior! Here is some of season 6. Is she going to help you cook soon? At least, do some of it!

It’s my cheeky idea, the cheeky plan to get your girl hooked on the MasterChef Junior TV show. Get her obsessed with cooking. Then, before you know it, she’ll help you slice up tomatoes, boil pasta, wow, imagine that!!!! !!! !
Look! The little kids take eggs!

Look! ! ! ! Mikey is 10 years old! !!!!!!

Look! ! !!!!!!!

D. Koroncziova

“MASTERCHEF JUNIOR gives talented kids between the ages of 8 and 13 the chance to showcase their culinary abilities and passion for food through a series of delicious challenges. The hit culinary competition series features world renowned chef Gordon Ramsay, acclaimed chef Aarón Sánchez and nutrition expert, author and new judge Daphne Oz.”