Shit, no wonder my wife’s dumplings are so sweet and high in calories. She was born there. This is why I don’t eat much of the food she cooks unless I really want to bulk.
I love butter more than anything else but I always forget to buy it at the grocery store since I’m back to being a fucking Neanderthal there and my wife refuses to buy it since it’s “unhealthy” but she’ll cook a dish with fatty pork submerged in 3 inches of oil.
Sorry, apparently it’s Hokkien, and in Hokkien, it’s kinda derogatory. Basically it means people outside the wall, and implicitly says the uncivilized ones lol
BUT!!! It’s the fact that you’re saying it in a language the person can’t understand. Throw in a little side glance and some laughter and it will drive straight through the heart!
My brothers wife and her sister would play this game sometimes at the grocery store. They could be asking each other which aisle the bread was in and people would get all huffy. Just follow it with a sinister laugh!