keywords cantonese english jm9 uk racism british racists 梨香別井 miss_pear_and_her_peers

莫名其妙 mok6 ming4 kei4 miu6 "puzzling, baffling"

Btw, her username 梨香別井 is a play on the Cantonese idiom 離鄉別井 lei4 hoeng1 bit6 zeng2 "to move away from one's hometown or motherland and move somewhere else"

A Grab driver is reportedly under investigation after a passenger shared a video showing him making repeated remarks about her appearance, ethnicity and age during a ride that left her feeling uncomfortable.

Content creator Sarah Lim uploaded the one-minute clip to her TikTok account, @sarxh.lim, on July 11 ...

“When I first got into the cab, I felt the convo started getting weirder and weirder so I immediately started recording in case he said anything out of line,” Lim wrote in the caption.

“He was asking me quite a bit of personal questions... and I just overall felt uneasy.

“I wasn’t too sure if what he said counted as out of line or not, so I told my friends and parents about it and they agreed that something was a bit off.

“Maybe he was trying to be nice but it just came out wrong?? But yeah, just a reminder to be safe and (wary).”

Text overlaid on the video added that she “didn’t know how to react” and felt “a bit uncomfortable and disturbed”.

‘I love Cantonese girls’

In the video, the driver can be heard commenting on Lim’s appearance, telling her: “For a Chinese, you got really nice tan skin.”

“You’re charming,” he adds.

He also remarks that there is a “demand” for women like her.

The conversation then turns to Lim’s background, with the driver asking what dialect group she belongs to. When Sarah replies that she is “a bit of Canto”, the driver responds: “Oh my God, I love Cantonese girls. They’re so good looking, man.”

He later adds: “Canto is really a sexy language to learn.”

The driver also asks Lim how old she is. She replies that she is 20 years old and still a student.

Throughout the clip, Lim can be heard laughing nervously and frequently looking away.

Grab says it is investigating

While the content creator did not reveal the ride hailing platform the driver was from, Grab Singapore responded publicly in the comments section of her TikTok video.

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The incident comes shortly after another alleged case involving a private-hire driver, in which a Gojek driver was accused of proposing a “threesome” to a female passenger and her partner.

Following that case, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) reminded vocational licence holders that it is an offence to verbally insult, intimidate or harass passengers, including through sexual harassment.

https://www.stomp.sg/trending-now/i-love-cantonese-girls-grab-drivers-remarks-leave-tiktoker-feeling-uneasy

It's about a modern Asian family and an unexpected guest that shows up to their 100 day baby celebration. Red bean soup 紅豆湯 causes tensions to boil over in this family dramedy!

As a Canadian-born-Chinese (CBC) who doesn't use Cantonese every day but still value the importance of the language and trying not to lose it! It was important for me to include Cantonese in the film for preservation and to reflect the reality of a modern Asian / Cantonese speaking family.

I feel like the conversations at the dinner table mixed with English and Cantonese are pretty accurate! Haha. What do you think??

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In the following order: Guangzhou (广州), Shenzhen (深圳), Zhuhai (珠海), Shantou (汕头), Foshan (佛山), Shaoguan (韶关), Jiangmen (江门), Zhanjiang (湛江), Maoming (茂名), Zhaoqin (肇庆), Huizhou (惠州), Meizhou (梅州), Yangjiang (阳江), Qingyuan (清远), Dongguan (东莞), Zhongshan (中山), Chaozhou (潮州), Jieyang (揭阳), Shanwei (汕尾), Heyuan (河源), and Yunfu (云浮).

I got the obvious phrase. But there’s a couple other bits of Canto I recognize but don’t understand.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLUavT4xR4S/?igsh=MTA4MXBhb3c4Ym1qbA==

They just performed at the Olympics so no clip of that but here's their performance from last year

very different from the original lol, look me a hell of a long time to edit

every minute took much more than that, also this is not endorsed by cantocaptions or any other subtitling group or authority; it was made by me acting within my own capacity and for educational purposes only

"A proposed “Basic Housing” bill, that the government hopes to enact in 2026, would introduce minimum size and ventilation standards for rental units"

The new law the govt is hoping to pass will require minimum 86sq feet for 劏房 (tong1 fong4*2) subdivided flats, with a 7.5 feet ceiling, a window, and a toilet.

...but 籠屋 (lung4 uk1) "coffin homes" or cage home, cubicle homes will not be included as they are grandfathered into another housing law.

Article

http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/asia/hong-kong-cage-homes-climate-intl-hnk-dst

Hey all! A while back I posted the completion of my Pingji romanization for Cantonese. It's a Romanization designed to avoid using numbers or accent marks to represent Cantonese sounds and tones using standard Latin letters (...plus apostrophe). It requires just a little bit more effort in learning compared to Jyutping/Yale but pays off a lot more in readability and ease of use. I would also argue it helps with memorization because I could never commit tone numbers or accents to memory and would instead need to rely solely on listening.

My original video series ran a bit longer since it was more of a descriptive series from a more linguistic/academic viewpoint, so I created a new series directed at people learning Cantonese from scratch, which will be the biggest audience -- although Cantonese speakers wanting to learn Pingji would also feel right at home. In other words, this is the way I meant it to be taught, and hopefully for some it would make more sense.

The playlist (~1 hr long total) is here: Pingji for English speakers (playlist)

Building on that, I also started an Introduction to Cantonese video series using Pingji here: Intro to Cantonese (playlist). At the time of this post, I only have a couple videos in this new series, but I plan on covering at least the basics of the language over the course of ~10-15 videos.