Yay, Tapioca Ed! We're counting down the days until he's scheduled to get back! (5 days to go.)
Today's Chronicle runs a story about how Ed Jew's travails have been covered in the Chinese-language local media. Man, we are sorry we didn't study the characters harder in our Mandarin Chinese classes (which -- fame whore alert!! -- we took with a certain elected Newsom city official) because their coverage sounds awesome.
The World Journal reports that the owners of the Good Neighbor Cafe are buying papers every day because of the story: "[It is just like watching a serial soap opera. There is a twist and new development every day." Yes it is! They also said, "Unlike other elected officials, we can always see [Ed Jew] on Irving Street after he was elected." They saw Tapioca Ed in the Sunset? They'd be the only ones.
Another paper, the Ming Pao, says Jew has told them he will not resign, and yet another paper, the Sing Tao, says that Jew's having a grand time in Guangdong visiting his ancestral village. Is he going to try and establish residency in that village next?
Finally, Quickly owners have reported that they're feeling ostracized in the community now and that people are calling them "sinners" for reporting Tapioca Ed's alleged shakedown. Aww, Quickly! We're totally picking up some popcorn chicken and an almond snow for lunch today.
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Seriously, we should be more supportive of the Quickly folks for coming forth. Nobody exploits immigrants like their own people, and the Chinese tend to be pretty tight-lipped about it. But for the Quickly people, we may not have found out about this crooked supervisor -- and yes, I know nothing has been proven, but there's far too much smoke here for there not to be fire.
Argh, Chinese character fadeout.
Lately I've been using a Firefox extension called gTranslate that allows one to select some text and translate it into English from any language supported by Google's translation service. The translation is quite nonsensical, but for individual words it works as a dictionary, and one can blunder through a few sentences at least.
Unfortunately the translation fails on some key phrases:
"The bitch set me up" -- "该荡妇set me up"
Oh No, Ed Jew! The gift that keeps on giving!
How about a mass greeting at SFO when (if?) Ed returns from PRC?
We can have banners, balloons and maybe a Lion Dance.
I guess firecrackers would be nixed at the airport. Too bad.
If this is ALL over the Chinese Media- Why is it that Asian Week hasn't had a mention of it?
You know, being the fine publication that it is...