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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-22 20:57 發表
Pen Hing: Any idea?

I haven't got a clue, but it'd be somewhere around Greater London, as you can see the double-decker bus over there!

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-23 10:37 發表

Yeah! but which part is hard to tell, it looks in the 60s'.

I’m quite sure that the picture just shown under the Ginza of Japan was taken in London, as I can clearly see the unique London Bus Stop sign (a circle with a line runs across in the middle) next to the lamp pole situated right under the clock that hang outside of the wall of a building on the right hand side of the road.

A picture of the London Bus Stop is shown below for your ease of reference.

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-23 17:16 發表

The photo you mentioned looks like the underground sign, red circle with blue dash in middle. ..

My dear brother av8s, you’re half right.

Basically, both the signs of London Bus (Transport for London) and the London Underground (they normally called it the Tube) look like the same, i.e. a circle with a line runs across in the middle of which.

However, the only difference is on the line that runs across in the middle of the circle. The London Bus has not got anything written across the line, whereas the Tube has got the word “Underground” across the line of which.

I’ve got the official sign of the London Underground below for your easy reference.

Since it’s only a misunderstanding on the sophisticated transport systems signs by a group of stupid Chinamen, I don’t think we need the secret agent MI5 to look into the matter in this instance.

In fact, you can’t find them for the time being as they’re on X’mas and New Year holiday, or they’ve been frozen by the heavy snow covering Britain already.

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-24 00:08 發表

Yeah! Great.

After a careful study of the third picture given by Brother ces in post #1 above, with the aid of a sophisticated microscope, I’ve sufficient reasons to believe that the picture was taken in Central London, no doubt.

I can see a bronze statue with a man riding on the horse in the middle of the road. Such an erection of a monument or bronze statue on the road or in the park is not uncommon in Central London. They used to do it like that as a memorial to their kings, queens, heroes, etc.

By the way, I wish you, and everybody as well, a very Merry X’mas and a Happy New Year!

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-24 09:57 發表

the old building with a sign "Bovril" beef extract ..Most local cafe provide as "Beef Tea" ...

Yes, Brother av8s, you recall my memory; I had also taken this awful taste drink in a Café when I was young.  

Except those “old cakes” like us, I don’t think the young lags would realize how the taste of it looks like.

It’d been off the menu of the Café ages. I guess it’s largely due to the cost of which was a bit expensive in comparison with other traditional drinks like tea, coffee, ovaltine, horlick, etc., in addition to its awful taste.  

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-24 11:48 發表
I recently heard some people use a spoonful in making "ngau lam".: ..

Does it work? I wonder!

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-24 14:01 發表

A man told his "for kee" go to buy one bottle of Bovril and add some onto the "ngau lam". ...

As far as I know, 花椒八角should be the right stuff for炆牛腩。

It seems that using Bovril is a bit funny, but it’s not a bad idea, perhaps鬼子佬 would like that taste.

However, being the brother of you, I think I need to remind you that Britain has got the mad cow disease in the last decade or so. Hence, if I were you, I’d do it in our Chinese way, to play safe.

“Don’t take a chance, make a choice” is always an unchanged golden rule, and you won’t get it wrong at the end of the day.

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原帖由 suewong 於 2010-12-24 19:13 發表


me too when I was 6/7 years old...

What's your comment, I mean the taste?

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原帖由 suewong 於 2010-12-24 19:19 發表

從此我就知廣告信唔過....

所以咪話鬼子佬唔會滾人，之不過人家疴個屁都香啲，俾佢滾咗都好似值得咁。  

呢啲係咪叫賤格呢？吓？

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-24 20:33 發表

It seems someone living there for over 6 months can not make blood donation, is that true?: ...

Yes, it’s true. Perhaps we may have got that scary disease in our body already.

I’ve got a stupid question, why is that our motherland China has not got that mad cow disease so far? As far as I know, Japan and America have got that scary disease in their herds as well.

Are we really that lucky or our agricultural system is far better than these ex-superpowers and now downgraded to under-developed countries?

But facts are facts, I think I need to take away that tinted glass in seeing things of my lovely superpower motherland from today onwards, and adjust myself in such a way that buying Chinese products is to be my first choice in shopping.

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-25 10:38 發表

Probably we already have antibody to the mad cow disease. Like influenza could kill a

You must be a happy man, as you get used to see things on the bright side, I like it!

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原帖由 suewong 於 2010-12-25 16:59 發表

I doubt much about that...男人不忠, 會唔會坦白 ?  

我希望係我自己多疑啫！否則真係避風避着雪矣！

响英國餓牛餓得耐，番咗嚟咪搏命食番夠皮囉。

我信哂祖家話中國牛冇瘋牛症�謘C見佢哋誓神劈願，仲保證話如有作假弄虛，甘願雙手交個政權出嚟俾柴玲、吾爾開希佢哋，從此退出江湖咁話，講到咁，冇理由唔信�瞴I

至於話去滾，都話咗冇咯，做咩係都要話人唔坦白唧，嬲�謘I

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原帖由 suewong 於 2010-12-25 20:50 發表

p.s. 下次飯聚, 話你知我點會知...

Fine, thank you.

到時講時講呀，千祈咪洩露國家機密呀！國安局知道就蝦碌喇！

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原帖由 理魯竇 於 2010-12-25 22:42 發表

SAR時期，香港死左299 人，但据稱無一個係吸煙者，究竟有無其事？

一啲都唔出奇吖！政府當時想淡化市民恐懼，一見啲煙剷香咗，就將佢classify為肺癌而唔計入沙士條數，咁做法可以理解。

兼且當時兵荒馬亂，邊度有人咁神心，得閒走去問佢係咪煙剷吖，仲唔嗱嗱淋打包燒咗算喇！

一係就係鷹尾煙草公司放啲咁嘅流料去害人，等啲冇腦嘅人誤信以為可以以毒攻毒，攞啲煙攻吓就百毒不侵，好似滾人食萬壽膏咁。

用個腦諗吓喇，沙士個正式學名好似叫乜鬼肺炎、唔知上定下呼吸道感染。平時已經日日煲煙傷害自己個呼吸系統，個肺有幾好自己最清楚，仲有乜理由期望會對此致命病毒有抗疫能力呀？信嗰個都白痴兼低B喇，係冇？

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原帖由 ces 於 2010-12-28 02:25 發表

Trafalgar Square....

講起特拉法加廣場，英國華人對此有個美麗的誤會。

此廣場離唐人街一箭之地，揸車出入猪乸街南下South London，差不多乃必經之路。

若果問路，與其話乜鬼法加廣場，不如問「大狗」响邊仲好過。

我初來步到，不明所以，後經老叔父指點，原來廣場有幾隻大銅獅子（見圖左黃色衫鬼婆側）佢哋叫獅子做咗「大狗」。

你知早期來英者，大多乃新界鄉親，响唐人街餐館做到辰昏顛倒，就算行過都係趕猴趕命咁，邊有心機企定定睇真嗰幾隻黑古勅掘嘅係獅子定狗呀！  

另一說法係「獅子」發音近似「死仔」，唔老黎喎！

ps Av8s兄有乜補充，小弟所聞，老兄有否聽過？

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原帖由 av8s 於 2010-12-28 17:22 發表

Yes! they call Gerald street as 猪乸街. also local Chinese call 大狗 and not Trafalgar square. .

As far as I could remember, Trafalgar Square is situated on a fairly level and flat place, whereas the road at the far end shown in the third picture given by Brother ces in post #1 seems going down a slope.

Hence, I doubt very much if the picture was taken around the Trafalgar Square.

Talking about Gerrard Street, the official Chinese name of which is elegant and extraordinary - 爵祿街. The pronunciation of which is also very closed to the original English name, and it couldn’t be better with any other words.

Unfortunately, we naughty and silly Chinamen used to call it 猪乸街, just like pulling it right from the heaven down to the hell, sad, isn’t it?

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原帖由 ces 於 2011-1-3 17:11 發表

Carnaby Street.........

第三幅圖條街最易估，正中米字旗雞乸咁大隻字寫住Carnaby Street歡迎全世界。

位處Central London之SOHO區，乃全英最旺，隣近唐人街，由成條街都係英女皇物業嘅Regent Street入最近，Oxford Street嗰邊入就行遠咗些少。

條街乃很短之橫街仔，路好窄，但非常聞名，因各新潮時裝舖雲集，潮人朝聖必到，街尾有一大型連鎖年青服裝店Liberty坐鎮。

成條街古式古香，包括Liberty在內，所有建築物相信皆有百年歷史，我指外牆而矣，屋內可能全新起過也未定，因法例不准改外牆，只可翻新。

小弟同老妻於此留下不少脚毛，因每星期六、日皆會由South London揸一小時車去唐人街飲茶兼買雜貨，一場去到Central London，必行勻Oxford Street，
Regent Street，包括此Carnaby Street，然後返回唐人街食埋晚飯才番歸。

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原帖由 av8s 於 2011-1-3 20:07 發表

there was a small cafe near 唐人街's HSBC, operated by Chinese. a cup of milk tea at 50p.

Absolutely! 50p for a cup of tea in Central London is considered value for money. It cost you at least a pound in the Café inside the Department Store of Selfridges or John Lewis in Oxford Street.

Yes, you’re right, whenever we went to Central London, the first thing we needed to do was to replenish those Chinese groceries from Chinatown for that week and the car must be fully loaded when returning home.

You’ve once said that you lived in Britain in the 90’s. Do you think we’ve met each other before somewhere in London Chinatown? Have you ever been in Croydon and taken the Dim Sum lunch at大同 Chinese Restaurant and shopped at榮業 Chinese Supermarket over there?

If you consider it as your personal privacy, please just ignore this stupid question would be all right.

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原帖由 av8s 於 2011-1-3 23:13 發表

No problem. It just a small world and I am sure we should have met in 1996  ...

Sure, Chinatown was the only place where we’d cure our homesick at that time, particularly in the first few years of our stay in England.

We used to stay there almost every weekend, and I’ve got a funny feeling that we must have met over there at least once, probably sitting in the next table of a restaurant, though we didn’t know each other at all.

Talking about the VCD, it was a very strange product to those Britons, as you couldn’t find VCD and VCD players in Britain except in the Chinatown. In fact, VCD was only an interim and premature product of DVD. Probably due to the poor quality of which, it’d never appeared in the market of Britain, as they’d gone straightaway from LD to DVD in the 90’s.

Yes, IRA was an awful nightmare at that time, as Chinatown and the nearby areas were targets of them. Even after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, we stayed away from Central London for couple of months, of course including the Chinatown.   

Which part of the country you lived at that time? You ran your own business over there, or took up an employment like me?

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原帖由 av8s 於 2011-1-4 13:47 發表
I got involved a project of image recognitionsoftware development and marketing with a MOD contractor ...

Me and my wife once stayed in a hotel in Russell Square when we took a tour around West Europe in 1983. As far as I’d remember, Russell Square is a place where there are only hotels and expensive apartments, British Museum is just around the corner and it’s only about 30 minutes’ walk from Chinatown.

Since you’d afford to live in that expensive area during your stay in England, I do believe that you must have earned loads of money from your business, isn’t it?

Being a contractor of Ministry of Defence (MoD), you must be a leading and reputable firm in that field and had been security checked and screened by MI5 already. That said, you’d afford to get early retire and are able to chat with me online right now, even though its daytime of a weekday, isn’t it?