Guests: Kuan Kong, Ah Chew, Ah Leng (Dragon), and Xiamen Ah Long
As suggested by Water King from our forum, we talked about bad habits and bad attitude. We talked about the definition of Chau Kuan. And then we got into the juicy details about examples of Chau Kuan. Discuss more of your own in the comment area or in our Penang Hokkien forum.
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A very good programme about chau kuan. The chau kuan I dislike most is Chinese people pretending not to be able to speak Chinese!! Here I have said it!!
I hear two MinNan words in this programme. These are words which Hokkien and TC people use but there is no Hua Yu equivalent.
Na si – if – In Hua Yu is Ru2guo3 ??
pua kek kuan – I cannot think of the English equivalent. Is Xiamen AhLong really pua kek? Someone who is pua kek is someone who just wastes money and resources. No I do not think so! 😉
I must listen to the programme again and identify more of these MinNan words!
Hi Miku,
it shows “Error opening file”! What have happened?
Hailam kek pui, the server that I host the audio file is down. They are working on the it. It should be beck, hopefully in a few hours.
John, now is ok the file can be downloaded
Tuna: thanks for letting me know. Hope it doesn’t break again. 🙂
Hi hailam kek pui: Are you Hainanese ? I want to know more Hainanese…… ^^
I think bad attitude in Hokkien is “PAI KUAN”. “Pai” meaning “BAD”
Haiyoh! John help… why I cannot finish listening to the show one? Why why??? I listen straight from the website lah. Help pls, somebody help me! I need to finish it lah….DESPERATELY, be tahan loh.
Xiamen Ah Long,
Yes, I am pure hainanese. Why u r so interested in Hainan?
It is my pleasure to share the knowledge with you.
Xiamen Ah Long – really like to hear your laughters ( so hard ) ! u guys talked ‘CB’, a bit gross 🙂 but loved it ! make me so happy , more CB pls, more !
the server this morning really chau kuan, dun want let me dl the podcast. haha..
wan lan
wantan kuihun loo ur comment mana er chai….
Kuan Kong ah ! I m just being honest mah, I love the show afterall rite ? mai xiu ki lah, sayang sayang ha..:-)
Hi Miku,
I think you should not be too fussed about correcting your Penang Hokkien as it is not always a direct translation from Mandarin. For example, everyday Penang Hokkien don’t use words like ?? as ‘kok-oui’, instead we usually say ‘kah-liao lang’ to address everyone. It may be broken in terms of Mandarin as it’s not Mandarin oriented, but it makes perfect sense in Penang Hokkien and it is understandable by both Chinese and English educated Penang Hokkiens (as discussed in #57). Also, as Penangites we DO interject foreign words in our Penang Hokkien conversation. I think these little things are what Penang Hokkien is all about.
Some are for laughs.
My struggle is people’s enjoyment sometimes.
Plus, I’m striving for the middle. I also have many email messages asking me to pronounce things differently, going more pure with my Hokkien.
I’ll stay where I am now. I think stretching a bit of my Hokkien knowledge is good. And perhaps some can do the learning with me. But most of the time it’s a part of the show.
Similarly, we try to “self-censor” ourselves by saying “toot”, which is now useless, but it’s part of our signature now.
Thank you so much for your comments.
Hello Hailam kek pui: Can you send me mail or add me aokh2002@hotmail.com to your MSN ? Do you speak Hainanese ? Lu bat kong Heng Chiu Ue bo ? I want to know you ! ^^
PS: Nong su ma ti Hainam nang…… ^^
Hi, Xiamen ah long,
I have added you to my msn. if you free, just accept my invitation. Currently, I don’t have microphone to use, but later I will get one. I just applied streamyx at home, so that we can chat later. Actually, it is hard to meet Hainanese who can speak hainian one. I have some friends who are hainese but they only can speak cantonese or hokkien.
Hope to see u soon
Hailam Kek Pui, Can I eat you ? so hungry when i pronounce your name !
Hi Wantan,
if u r in kl, i can cook pure hainan kek pui for u, it is different from outside hawker one.
Hailan kek pui – are you going to give us your recipe? 😉
Hi Giam Cia Ark Teung,
No problem! I can post on website.
Hi Miku,
Did u received the Chung Tut Hip Hop mps that I send to you?
haha… This show very funny… especially the way you all describe CB… haha
Kuan Kong glad that U were on show again… 🙂
Actually juz to add in something:
“Wui Chi Pong Kok : was actually came from history in china,
last time, there was a king in china who was very hamsap…
he only know fxxxx with his 3000++ ladies. Once he was admired
with a beautiful girl which is “Hu Li Ching”, untill his country kena
attacked also boh chap siao… finally his country was gone… so call
Pong Kok…
Wui Chi Pong Kok is describe for men, while the girl one we mention :
Wui Lan Chut KoK (Out of country because of the stick) haha… for this I dun
know how does it came from… we juz speak like that nia…
we usually mention “Phua Kek” in my hometown…
Singa”tut” punya orang not only Kia su, but Kia si oso… the Kia Cheng Hu (gov) lagi ar… very the Jiak lat…
Last Sunday, I was going to Carre”tut” Hypermart to buy something, when I passed through the bakery corner, I saw many of the singa”tut” ppl crowded the place and rush to grab the bread sample to eat… so madness… I think they no need to buy lunch anymore… si peh phua kek ar…
The place I worked now , the boss is Tai’tut’ born lived in Singa’tut’, he got all the bad habbits combined from these 2 countries ! Kiam siap & Kia su..
if i open a restaurant in singatut sure i’ll hire people to que up
won’t give food sample
the people here loves to que
going back to the topic of ‘chau kuan’, i witnessed a really embarassing thing about the attitude of penangites. many years ago we had the longest buffet along the beaches of all the hotels in batu ferringhi. people actually brought plastic bags and started scooping food into them. basically they paid for one entry and wanted to feed the whole kampung at home! so disgusting!
spitting in public is another bad habit. worse still i see people spitting in the hospital! thats how diseases spread!
Oh my goodness, I witnessed the plastic bags and feed sweeping action
with my own eyes. I was so disgusted, I couldn’t eat!
>>SiongSiong
>>September 26, 2006 | 8:41 am
The strange thing is, many Penangnites find it hard to accept the original words used but instead want to replace it with foreign words. Instead the original word is called “Mandarin”. The truth is many original Hokkien words have an exact equivalent in Mandarin, using them doesn’t mean being influenced by Mandarin. For example I thought that tuala is the only way to say it in Hokien. Turned out that mo3kin1, which has a Mandarin equivalent, has always been the way of saying tuala in Hokkien language. I do not seek to become a 100% purist but I think no speaker should be discouraged from using the original Hokkien expression. Ko ui and tak tak lang are used in different context.
hahahaaha lol! this show is really funny especially the pang pui’s part u can just imagine how smelly it can be stuck in the same trem n there is no air ventilation, if i were him i will be really pai se n bo bin ki lang lo …..
happened to ‘gate-crashed’ ur hokkien page. very interesting. i summed up ‘xiemen ah long’ and hailam kek pui’ both are hainanese. mee too. actually i also want to find hainanese friends, so much so i go through the web for anything hainanese. that’s how i found your page.
for those looking for hainanese friends and want to practise hainanese dialect (i can teach you for free), you can find them at: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/hainanese
this group just started not long ago. already there are many interesting things, like hainanese chicken rice, hainanese satay, hainanese songs sung in hainanese dialect, etc. posted there. feel free to ‘drop by’.