maiTAI remix (12:30:33 PM): Hey so I read your blog and commented today. And then I asked my friend if she knew anything about the "beefcake" comment. And we have a theory.
maiTAI remix (12:32:00 PM): My friend is from Qingdao and has a few classmates who became Beijingers and she explained to me their slang.
Andy Young UNC (12:51:26 PM): oh
Andy Young UNC (12:51:29 PM): and what does it mean?
maiTAI remix (12:51:47 PM): it has nothing to do with weight
maiTAI remix (12:52:12 PM): so my theory about the transliteration was right
Andy Young UNC (12:52:13 PM): i immediately jumped to the southpark episode
maiTAI remix (12:52:35 PM): so if you translated beefcake back into chinese
maiTAI remix (12:52:37 PM): niu
Andy Young UNC (12:52:50 PM): yeah
maiTAI remix (12:52:55 PM): and the word "bing" as in moon cake
maiTAI remix (12:52:58 PM): that bing
Andy Young UNC (12:53:16 PM): i've been here, but my logic stopped
maiTAI remix (12:53:22 PM): you get a phrase that is beijing's way of saying
maiTAI remix (12:53:24 PM): hen bang
maiTAI remix (12:53:47 PM): to say that someone is niu
Andy Young UNC (12:53:48 PM): cause i got to mad cow disease from there
maiTAI remix (12:54:03 PM): means to say they are hen bang
maiTAI remix (12:54:07 PM): or li hai
maiTAI remix (12:54:25 PM): 很棒
Andy Young UNC (12:54:35 PM): strong
Andy Young UNC (12:54:37 PM): like ripped?
maiTAI remix (12:54:41 PM): the chinese characters for hen bang
Andy Young UNC (12:54:50 PM): gahahha
maiTAI remix (12:54:52 PM): no, just basically awesome
maiTAI remix (12:55:10 PM): but the thing that i found quite strange is this
Andy Young UNC (12:55:11 PM): well i was drenched in sweat from running
maiTAI remix (12:55:26 PM): oh, haha...could be it
Andy Young UNC (12:55:34 PM): well im a fatty by chinese standards either way
maiTAI remix (12:55:45 PM): "bing" is a slang for a sexual term
Andy Young UNC (12:55:53 PM): meaning?
Andy Young UNC (12:56:03 PM): was i getting hit on?
maiTAI remix (12:56:25 PM): like female organs
maiTAI remix (12:56:32 PM): but the thing is
maiTAI remix (12:56:46 PM): when you add it to niu
Andy Young UNC (12:56:54 PM): udders?
maiTAI remix (12:57:13 PM): it doesn't have any type of sexual connotation
maiTAI remix (12:57:25 PM): no, stop comparing yourself to a cow
Andy Young UNC (12:57:37 PM): this is not helping as much as i expected
Andy Young UNC (12:57:41 PM): now im a cow udder
Andy Young UNC (12:57:44 PM): jeez
maiTAI remix (12:57:49 PM): calling someone niu
Andy Young UNC (12:57:48 PM): a fat one at that
maiTAI remix (12:57:59 PM): is like using it as an adjective
maiTAI remix (12:58:01 PM): for awesome
Andy Young UNC (12:58:09 PM): whereas in the us
Andy Young UNC (12:58:16 PM): if you called a girl a cow... you'd get slapped
maiTAI remix (12:58:29 PM): for some reason though, beijingers like to add another phrase for it
maiTAI remix (12:58:44 PM): character to it*
maiTAI remix (12:59:01 PM): but whether he said "niu" or "niu B"
Andy Young UNC (12:59:14 PM): he said "beefcake"
Andy Young UNC (12:59:19 PM): in english
maiTAI remix (12:59:53 PM): (niu B is actually what it is suppose to be as oppose to 'bing") he basically means you're awesome
maiTAI remix (12:59:58 PM): i know he said "beefcake"
Andy Young UNC (12:59:58 PM): so in summation, what did he mean by beefcake?
maiTAI remix (1:00:15 PM): he meant, "you're awesome"
Andy Young UNC (1:00:23 PM): even though he never met me before...
Andy Young UNC (1:00:35 PM): i must be a badass over here... ha
maiTAI remix (1:00:36 PM): must have been amazed by the fact you had a nice body and you were sweatig
maiTAI remix (1:00:45 PM): doesn't matter that he doesn't know you
maiTAI remix (1:01:00 PM): chinese people will say whatever the hell they want to you
2 comments:
I'm pretty sure that the person really just meant beefcake as in the english word beefcake as defined by wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefcake
It has nothing to do with fat and everything to do with a muscular and toned body often associated with sexual attractiveness.
Learn to take a compliment. I wish I had your body.
niu bi bascially means "damn beastly" in crude beijing hua
also people probably just stare b/c you have a really tall nose bridge and deep set eyes (both of which are considered handsome in china) so don't take offense...
-jenny (i have to justify the actions of my fellow beijing natives, we are not as rude as you think i promise! those who are are probably not from beijing, 2/3 of the people in beijing nowadays are from elsewhere... )
Post a Comment