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Example sentences for: cantonese
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Although the economy has changed radically in recent years, many local traditions live on, including the love of flowers, Cantonese Opera, and the local dialect (incomprehensible to fellow Chinese).
And then there is Cantonese food — some say the world’s greatest cuisine — much appreciated in its adaptations internationally but unexcelled when created in its home kitchen.
So, for example, the varieties of Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.) are about as different as the Romance Languages (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.).
4. He said at a World Wildlife Fund function: "If it has got four legs and it's not a chair, if it has got two wings and it is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it's not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
Grown in India, it was delivered to Canton, and while China outlawed the trade in 1799, local Cantonese officials were always willing to look the other way for “squeeze money” (a term still used in Hong Kong).