To hail a taxi, you say "Suh-fu".
Mandarin:
"Sure-Who".
In Kmg, you greet by asking a q'n:
"Knee kuh LAW dee-er kuh LAW?"
Mandarin:
"Knee Chew Nar?
To be fake-polite, like Chinese, u ask them "Have you eaten?"--rhetorical bs where u pretend to care--just like they do lol.
Kmg: "Guh chur fahn (like "aah" at dentist) LAW?"
"Guh chur fahn LAW?"
Mandarin:
"Knee chur fahn?
Or, "Knee chur boo chur fahn?"
More beginner phrases next time...
Don't listen to people downing Yunnan or Kunming dialect--Chinese do that ALL over China--in each population center. True.
That peasant from Yunnan or
Yunnan mountain tribal person
ARE the very soul and essence of China--not the arrogant, educated, a-hole, big-city person frm Bj/Sh/HK/Tianjin/Guangzhou.
If you've toured in Yunnan, you
HAVE seen China--more than going to the Great Wall, or Beijing lol. True.
You know Yunnan is the most scenic, unique place in all China, right?
You're sooooo lucky to be there. 100.
The most btfl places in China r Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guangxi and where u r--in the middle of the action.
And Suchuan-Yunnan food is off-the-chain--don't let people tell u otherwise.
Yunnan is beyond amazing.