As you guys know, Chinese in Penang usually speak in Hokkien; and I don't much much of it, just able to understand simple 1, if speak, worse.
It happen in my lunch hour at hawker centre near by my work place. My colleague and I went outside for lunch, and we were ask by 1 ah pek wanna order what for drink. My friend also donno Hokkien, wanna play save so he order barley ice, however, me being kekiang....
Ah Pek: Ai lim sia mik (what you wanna drink)
Me: Wu sia mik zhui? (what sort of drinks you have?)
then this ah pek give me all sort of drinks that I can't understand even a word!
Ah Pek: !#$%*&#^, $)^$*#^&#((%-0
Me: O_O, errr......barley peng lah (barley ice)
Ah Pek: =.=
Friend: ahhahahahhahahhahaha........
Me: T.T
sigh....
11 comments:
Haiyah, like me too lah. Can understand Hokkien, but cannot speak. Once I open my mouth, yhey know I am not local. That's when they start to "kelar leher" (cut-throat), by charging you more expensive than the locals. A good example is when you go to have your car repaired or serviced. That's when they recommend a price higher than what tey charge the locals.
LOL, why the ah pek gave you =.= face? Haha, I understand, but you can try to speak mandarin to them la, they will understand one la usually. :P
why SIA mik gei?
:P
HAHAHA!!! Someone trying to be smart but in the end, fail big time! Hahaha!!!
Same goes here...Haha..But very rare Penang ppl cant speak hokkien wor =)...I also hate it when i'm with my bunch of Cantonese Ipoh frens & whnever we encounter a Hokkien-dominated area, they'll look at me & i'll just have to swallow the embarassment whenever i open my mouth...Hahah
Hokkien? I'm probably worse than you. And I don't like people speak hokkien in front of me..
Saintner, hmm...true also...it's about the time my car need to be service, i think better i ask my friend accompany me go to workshop...
Freedom, is after he give me all sort of name, at the end i order barley ice mah...hehhe...
bong, sia mik means "what", not meh??
Calvin, you don't laugh at me hor!
Simon, i'm not from Penang lah, i just here for 1 month mia...
Keenyee, me is ok lah...not until to the extend don't like. But i do find that when people speak in hokkien, sounds like uncle or auntie...hehe...
Hahahah! action la you! next time.. Just.. Coca cola! kau tim. :D
Hey what is wrong with Hokkien folks? Don't forget that it is the highest spoken dialect in Malaysia. Anyway I am gonna speak to Kenn Yee next time!
The Penang Hokkien is also different from those in Klang, JB, S'pore and Taiwan. I also dunno what is Sia Mik. Apa tu?
Evann, donno how many thousand years i not drink coke liao.hhaha...
Twilight, i'm actually waiting your reaction comment on this post......and finally you appear, ha! ayohh...i just wrote based on my memory...my hokkien not that good lerr.....
Granny, just make sure you put on your smiley face while cursing me in Hokkien lo, don't make me feel bad. Not tat I say hokkien is bad, just that don't speak in front of me with the language that I can't understand lo.
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