{"id":4499,"date":"2019-11-19T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/luo-bo-bai-cai-ge-you-suo-ai-luo2bo-bai2cai4ge4you3suo3ai4\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T23:10:37","slug":"luo-bo-bai-cai-ge-you-suo-ai-luo2bo-bai2cai4ge4you3suo3ai4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/luo-bo-bai-cai-ge-you-suo-ai-luo2bo-bai2cai4ge4you3suo3ai4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u841d\u535c\u767d\u83dc\u5404\u6709\u6240\u7231 \u2013 luo2bo bai2cai4ge4you3suo3ai4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Literal translation &ndash; Turnip Chinese Cabbage each has actual love<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>Turnip, Cabbage everyone has their own preference<\/p>\n<p>It basically means It means &ldquo;Everybody has their own perso<em><\/em>nal taste&rdquo; or &ldquo;Each persons likes and dislikes are different&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my MOST used expresssions.&nbsp; If you live in China then  this is a MUST learn.&nbsp; Reason being I was sick and tired of going into  restaurants and asking for dishes to be modified to the way I like them  (i.e. don&rsquo;t put any hot peppers in, as I don&rsquo;t like spicey food).&nbsp; Too  many times the waitress told me it was &ldquo;impossible&rdquo;.&nbsp; When I asked why  was it &ldquo;impossible&rdquo; the answer was always &ldquo;because it won&rsquo;t taste good  that way&rdquo;.&nbsp; I have no idea wher this logic possibly comes from and how  it can be so common nationwide, but it is.&nbsp; So I was SO happy to stumble  upon this idiom\/phrase which basically throws a spanner in their logic  using their own language.&nbsp; Now I don&rsquo;t need to argue with the waitresses  or explain to them that I have the right to decide what does and  doesn&rsquo;t taste good.&nbsp; o<em><\/em>nce I get any resistance from the staff regarding  my desires to change the dishes to my liking I simply utter the  proverb\/saying above and they normally smile (surprised a foreigner  knows how to use such an ex<em><\/em>pression) and they get the point.&nbsp; Strange  that such an ex<em><\/em>pression exists in their language but yet they insists on  telling others what does and doesn&rsquo;t taste good.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, be sure to learn this as you will use it almost daily (or at least almost everytime you go to a restaurant).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2805327807\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literal translation &ndash; Turnip Chinese Cabbage each has actual loveORTurnip, Cabbage everyone has their own preference<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2834,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases"],"views":159,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}