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netherlands  ·  4084 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy Chinese New Year!

It's been a good one so far! Hope everyone's enjoying the reunion dinners and angpau back where they are.





user-inactivated  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you in Netherlands or your name is just netherlands? Is angpau in min nan dialect?

netherlands  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, I'm not in Netherlands. At the time of creating an account on here, I was casually glancing at a jacket that my Dutch cousin had gifted me, and it had Netherlands on it, so, tada.

I'm actually based in Malaysia. Also, I have no idea. We Malaysian-Chinese just romanize the word as 'angpau' or 'hongpau.'

user-inactivated  ·  4076 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh that's cool. I have a friend from Malaysia and I think the Chinese there is more based off Min nan language, so more Taiwanese.

I'm currently in Netherlands, thats why I was wondering. Haha.