My favorite ones are the more traditional ones. My wife is from Shanghai, she prefers the Shanghainese salty one types, with meat. In Hong Kong Moon Cakes can be very expensive. So people need to save up several month before the Festival to afford buying them (they will then offer them to their family and friends). I keep the empty boxes of moon cakes. They are usually very well decorated, embossed with a design of the moon, Sun Ngo and the rabbit. The night of that Mid-Autumn Festival, my wife contemplates the full moon and likes to recite the poem 李白 靜夜思.

I was waiting for this video. Thanks, it helps a lot understanding and practicing the passive form.😊

Thank you for this video. I will be learning Cantonese in the future. It is a target I hold deeply in my heart. Your videos are a goldmine and know there are many of us who have been helped by the hard work you have put into these videos. So thank you 💙

In Russian we often say 'батя [batya]' to refer to someone's father in a friendly, maybe even ironic way 😁 But usually it's just 'папа [papa]', or more formal 'отец [otets]'

Your parents did a great job, I think this is an example to be followed 🙏

全世界有一億二千萬人講粵語💪💪💪。 粵語是我認識的語言中最有感情和美妙的😊 最能代表人類語言的最高境界☀️！ 如果能用粵語朗誦 中華文化中的詩、詞等文學，你就會明白何謂 人類語言的 "最高境界"☀️！ 所以一定要推廣粵語☀️！ 總結： *粵語是一種感情豐富、有正能量的語言。👍 *普通話是擦鞋仔用的，是用來擦鞋的！🤪 *在地球要搵食最緊要學好英語。😊

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Hehe, this is good 😂 I think I have only tried *one* so far, and I didn't understand what the filling was... Me and my friend are going to an event this weekend celebrating 中秋節 here in St. Petersburg, so maybe I'll get to taste many, I usually don't eat much though (hopefully, there will be 迷你 ones 😁) I'll sure try to find any snow skin ones-that I took a note of, thank you 😌 中秋節快樂！🐇

Great video 😊 I tried the white lotus double yolk one for the first time with my (Cantonese) wife. It was given to us by someone from HK (we live in the UK) and i thorougly enjoyed it. Famous brand - 香港美心月餅

Thank you so much for your videos!!

That's a great video and great explanation to something that I've been wondering for awhile. Thank you!

我食過山楂餅, 買山楂餅每次我去中舖頭。好食! 😌 Is it understanable? ☺️

Sharp to the point, thanks for your teaching. ❤

My own mother makes pineapple mooncakes. Yeah, I know. Not traditional.

Mood cake

Awesome video!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

I like the 雙黃白蓮蓉月餅

I also like all kinds of noodles ☺️ Saint Petersburg, where I grew up, has all kinds of cuisine-both European and Asian, including Central Asian cultures like Uzbek cuisine (laghman noodles, most notably) For the most part, Russians eat Western-style pasta, and don't differentiate between its various types (we call them all «макароны»); often, they would just cook some pasta or spaghetti and add cheese on top-this is a dish we all remember from childhood 😁 But right now I really want some glass noodles hehe

Wow, this is brilliant acting ☺️ I have also worked through the description, thank you very much 🙏

In Russian, we say «выходные [vihodniye]», which means 'days of going out'-we work during the week, and then go out and socialise ☺️

Hey, this really cheered me up ☺️ Thank you for the insight 🙏

My favourite poem is in Russian 😄 It's a short poem «Когда посеяно зерно...» by Olga Chyumina, published in 1897 The first lines go somewhat like: When people sow the seed Of freedom, truth, and kindness There will be time indeed When gracefully it sprouts It doesn't rhyme well, but it seemed right-it's very difficult to translate because Russian language doesn't have any strict word order and has a lot of 'melody' or 'dance' in it, which cannot be rendered, so please forgive me 😂

I am awful at small talk 😄 In Russia people are usually straightforward-I have a neighbour and she is a rather old woman, any time she sees me she goes: 'shave your beard already, when are you shaving your beard' (I have quite a beard, true), and it's not considered impolite, if anything it's actually friendly tone People discuss their work and salary, private life, gastritis, you name it-and they usually get right to the point, unless you are getting swindled haha

made me giggle 😁

Thank you for another great lesson

haha, brilliant! 😄

想唔想 ☺️ The example I came up with: 你得唔得閑飲茶？😁 nei5 dak1 m4 dak1 haan4 jam2 caa4 You free or not free for yum cha (my friend from Fujian brought me a cardholder with a similar phrase for me to use in Hong Kong, I'm so happy 😄)

The way I like to remember how to use bei2 is by thinking of it as the English word by. They sound similar and can be translated as such.

I usually forget about some things when I am sleepy, even if I am not busy 😂 And otherwise I take things really slow, it became apparent to me when I studied at university with people from other places and they were like: wow, you really are carefree right 😄 It's to an extent cultural, on the one pole people in Moscow being unbelievably fast, be it public transport or a business meeting, and on the other St. Petersburg, where people seem to care less about their careers and just enjoy the ride, as it were

In Russian we often say 'да нет [da net]' , which is very hard to translate much like Cantonese final particles, especially because taken literally 'да' means 'yes' and 'нет' means 'no', so it's like 'yes no' 😂 But it's actually a kind of hesitant 'no', because 'да' can also mean just softening the statement And Cantonese is at times so poetic if read literally, I've had so much joy 😄 (and also fun, my favourite is all sorts of animals that have 鼠 in the name like 松鼠-pine mouse hehe-and of course the majestic ✨龍貓✨ 😄)

河內！😄 (ho4 noi6, lit. «river inside», Hanoi being situated between two rivers)

I agree that learning the language helps to understand culture as a whole, I think it’s necessary One of the most insightful examples for me is the use of wordplay in Cantonese festive traditions and also superstitions 😄 Thus, tangerines are actually part of the New Year celebration in Russia also, but for entirely different reasons... And so you would have to learn that they were initially used by wealthy families as a Christmas tree decoration/treat before the Bolshevik Revolution; and then much later in the 1960s, when the import began, they happenned to be the only fresh fruit available in the USSR by New Year-they had reached there by that time from Africa-and thus they came to be associated with the New Year and acquired this distinct festive flavour 😌 And then you have 柑 which sounds the same as 金！😄

Thank you🎉

This is funny 😄 I remember when I was a child I overheard someone using a very bad word in Russian, but I didn't know what it meant so out of sheer curiosity I began asking other people, and I started making up songs with that word and so on 😂 Our neighbours were very surprised and pretended they didn't know the word, and my family just yelled at me-as a confused disciplinary measure I guess 😄

I decided to establish independent film production in HK by the end of 2024, which I think is not going to work as I am not even in HK yet 😅 Anyway, I am definitely better at not getting angry, which was another resolution 😄

I tried and, well, at least I liked it! 😄

I appreciate the depth and clarity you bring to your content. Keep it up!

中秋節 😄

Great, thks, I like the help with the tones. I guess I will avoid doing stuff on Mondays and Sundays 😅

幾好用呀，呢個video! 多謝多謝😁

Amazing

Love you way to explain Biblical truths, blessings sister❤

Whoa, thank you for opening this magical world of herbal tea for me 😄 I think I saw this kind of thing in 元朗 when I was in HK-the whole place has a magical feeling about it, I remember a man in the street saying 'Hello' in a very friendly manner as though he knew me very well ☺️✨ I've read all of the description and learned a lot! Thank you for this tiny yet enchanting trip that has brought up some very warm memories 😌

These are brilliant and beautiful videos, thank you 😌

Amazing acting! This truly makes a great comedy 😂 May I ask if I understand the 開年 part correctly? So it's like a wordplay, meaning literally opening the New Year with the person (and thus expecting them to give you the envelope; hence 我*同*你?), but also figuratively getting disciplined for being cheeky? 😂

我幾時都得閒呀。😄 我攰嗰陣會去瞓㗎喇。 May I inquire why do you say 《專心啲》with 啲？🙏 What does it mean here grammatically?

你諗緊乜呀？ What are you thinking about? 諗 seems to be an interesting word, peculiar to Cantonese and its roots seem not to be clear

邊個係你嘅班主任呀？ 呢部電話係邊個㗎？ I would never have guessed what this 㗎 is used for here, thank you very much 🙏

半個月前 😄 But I honestly wasn't sure about the quantifier (I feel a bit unsure where to use an attributive 嘅 and so I see any noun as a normal noun with a possible quantifier, and where the grammar itself allows for a more straightforward structure, but still demands the quantifier), I checked the comments and found the answer, thank you 🙏 I guess one can also say 上半個月? ☺️ Also thank you for the tip about the calendar, I now use it all the time 🙏