Newbie | Chinese Green Eggs and Ham

Homework is a huge part of every Chinese kid's childhood. In this lesson, we cover that dreaded moment when the teacher asks for everyone's homework and one unlucky guy doesn't have his. There's gonna be a reckoning! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1594 

In today's dialogue, a vending machine is going through an identity crisis and struggling between being a 饭店 or a 商店, as one does. Through this dilemma, we will learn how to use the word 请 to treat somebody to a meal, 但是 to indicate a turn in the statement, and 也 to express 'also ...  Show more

It’s slightly reminiscent of your friendly neighborhood ‘Oriental Palace’, but where is the General Tsao’s Chicken and florescent pink sweet and sour pork? Though the smells and greasy tables feel strangely familiar, this isn’t the Chinese take-out of your memory. This podcast ...

Walking through a street food miasma where you smell the food before you see it, and seeing it is not necessarily believing it, this lesson is about one of the better smelling and easily-identifiable of the street foods of China. Which in itself is a good enough reason to purc ...

In the 2000s an anonymous American man found an egg worth millions. It was a Faberge Imperial Egg and it's story is fascinating. This episode traces the origin of the Faberge Eggs, and also the story of how it wound up in a kitchen in America’s Midwest. Also, as the Gold Rush boo ...  Show more

We go deep in this episode into the next set of questions. Tom doesn't know where pineapples grow and if elephants really eat peanuts or not. Ula wouldn't eat delicious poo for some reason and they both hit their feet on the corners of stuff. It's all up in the air in this one bu ...  Show more