Winner gets to eat the fins

[Doc]

This ought to be pinned as an easy answer to the endless "I wanna see Sharks" posts.

 

[Angry Turtle]

don't get it

 

[Wookie]

don't get it

They are playing poker in a shark tank in someplace where the written Chinese language (Mandarin or maybe Cantonese, but probably Mandarin) is displayed on the awning. Shark fins are eaten by ethnic Chinese as a delicacy, which would lead to the conclusion "winner gets to eat the fins".

 

[g1138]

They are playing poker in a shark tank in someplace where the written Chinese language (Mandarin or maybe Cantonese, but probably Mandarin) is displayed on the awning. Shark fins are eaten by ethnic Chinese as a delicacy, which would lead to the conclusion "winner gets to eat the fins".

Manderin and Cantonese are dialects. The both use the same written characters; the verbal pronunciation is different.
As a fun fact, Japanese uses the same characters as well, calling it's writing Kanji. Same meanings, just different pronunciations.

Japanese breaks it down further though into Hiragana and Katakana. Hiragana is the Japanese verbal alphabet which can "spell" the whole syllable verbalization of Kanji. Katakana is the sister verbal alphabet of Hiragana, using different characters but still covering the same syllables. Katakana is usually used for foreign words, Hiragana is used for traditional words.

As you can imagine, learning to read Chinese is a whole lot harder than learning to read Japanese.

 

[TaoH]

This took place in FuZhou City, FuJian Province. More than likely, the locals here speak the FuZhou dialect.

While Mandarin is the political language in the mainland, many regions still speak their own regional dialect. There are about 50 dialects in all.

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