Carson Hom’s family has run a thriving fortune cookie and almond cookie company in Los Angeles County for 35 years. And for much of that time, it was a business that required two languages: Cantonese, ...

HONG KONG – Hong Konger Jeffrey Wong started his Instagram account Jyuttoi in 2022, sharing interesting Cantonese idioms to help people pick up the language through casual conversation. Two years on, ...

The year is 1972. An inebriated Richard Nixon is fending off table tennis balls fired towards him by Chairman Mao. Moments later, a clone of the Chinese leader takes the stage to introduce a young ...

If you're not familiar with Chinese, have you ever wondered why game localisations tend to have two language options? There's Traditional Chinese, which refers to the original Chinese characters that ...

Viewers tuning in to Pixar’s animated movie Turning Red may wind up wondering exactly what the characters are saying during two key sequences where they begin to chant in Cantonese. In one scene in ...

A wave of new restaurants are challenging diners to go beyond sesame chicken and crab Rangoon. In Manhattan, the restaurant Cha Cha Tang serves French toast with violet ube cream alongside classic ...

When Hong Kong was handed back from the UK to China in 1997, only a quarter of the population spoke any Mandarin. Now, two decades later, that figure has nearly doubled. But even as people get better ...

A colourful, Cantonese rebuke of an opposition member by a Singapore minister in parliament has sparked debate on the rare use of dialects in public discourse in the city state, with critics also ...