The speaking of plums quenches one’s thirst 望梅止渴

This Chinese metaphor is a good icebreaker line. The presence of a pickled plum will bring saliva to one’s month and helps quench his thirst. If you can’t buy your son a Ferrari buy him a model.

One man’s poison is another man’s meat

That is what I amounted to say yesterday, when I put up  a post about eating poisonous snakes.
I, and most Chinese do, find that snake meats or snake soups tasteful and good for health. I can understand that some people feel otherwise.
A few of my friends found the said post distasteful (see the reverse pun). [...]

The Tsing Ma Bridge Hong Kong, a magnificient suspension bridge

Over the weekend I have taken some pictures of our beautiful airport bridge, known as the Tsing Ma Bridge. I hope this would help salvage the damages I have done with regard to my post of yesterday (title intentionally omitted), which one of the readers found distasteful. To him I must apologize.
According to Wikipedia:
The [...]