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Old Mar 22, 2014 | 2:33 pm
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Originally Posted by BuildingMyBento
...and I've been admonished for speaking Mandarin in NY's Chinatown and Oporto. In fact, the guy in the latter place yelled at me to "speak in English or Portuguese, but not Chinese."

欢迎暗临, I guess.
But is that because you are Caucasian (I think)? What would happen if you try to speak Cantonese?

Did the Oporto guy speak Portuguese??
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