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Me and my 4-year-old son were having a little fun over dinner yesterday night. As he is quite into learning English at the moment, I tried to have some conversation with him. So I started asking…

Dad: What is your favorite color?

Son: Black!

Dad: Ok. What is your favorite food?

Son: Grapes! (with BIG smiles!)

Dad: Who is your favorite person?

Son: Emily! (a cute girl in his kindergarten class, sitting next to him!)

Dad: Hmm… 

Son: Me ask Me ask! … What is your favorite color?

Dad: Blue of course! (Steemit BLUE! Yeah!!)

Son: What is your favorite PRISON?

Dad: What!? Prison? Are you sure? Who taught you that?

Son: Yes. Prison. What is your favorite PRISON?

Dad: It’s not like I had been to one. But perhaps Tu-Chen prison (as it is the first prison to imprison a former President of Taiwan. It might be good if I really have to choose) (of course, he did not respond to my reply…so I kept asking …) 

Dad: Then. What is YOUR favorite prison then?

Son: THOMAS!

Dad: What!? Is it an American prison? Oh… I see, it is ‘present’ you are talking about! (But Thomas the engine train is from UK - Dad noted)

Son: Yes! Thomas the friends! Yes! (Got off from table and went for his Thomas trains… )

Thanks for watching! 

Note. Writing this partly for fun and partly to echo @nanzo-scoop ‘s post today:  

Give users an easy way to post QUICK UPDATES. No Title. No Tags (default it). WYSIWYG input. Character limit. 

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For the past three weeks, I have gave away $15 SBD in total to three different Steemians (see #1, #2 and #3) and the first two are both interesting and the winners both blogged about this experience in their blog… The last dude … well, I haven’t heard from him/her ever since. 

This week, I am changing this game a little bit as 1) $5 SBD is now less affordable to me and 2) I am running out of cafes but have some dinning experiences to share. So, this time let’s have fun with more people! I am going to offer two meal selections to you, both of which I had last week, and if you take the ‘correct’ side in the end, you will get a small prize for fun! 

朋友們，本周不猜咖啡廳了，我已經快沒有適當的咖啡廳可以用了。猜謎送獎方式也改變一下，第一，SBD現在有價值多了，我已經快送不起 $5 SBD了，改成多人參與，更多人有獎的方式，或許也好玩一些。只要你選對邊吃飯，你就有機會拿獎喔！

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So, in the following we have three parts: first, the rules for this SBD giveaway; second, the presentation of Set A Meal; third, the presentation of Set B Meal. Join now by replying your choice and may the best gourmet side wins!

以下會有三部分：一、送獎規則與簡介；二、套餐Set A上菜；三、套餐Set B上菜。選中贏的一邊的話，你就進入獲獎隊伍囉！

Rules and Introduction 送獎規則與簡介

Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight we have prepared for you two exquisite selections of Asian style meals from two different restaurants - the first one is Set A, the traditional Chinese cuisine by Golden Chicken which specialized in Jiangsu and Zhejian cuisine; the second one is Set B, the flavor of freshness from sea by Waisanding Sand Bar which is famous for their fresh seafood especially oysters and milkfish. Details in the following. Both meals are not expensive and cost around USD $11-$12. So this is en equal contest between meals as well.

女士們先生們，今晚為你們準備的是兩套亞洲美食精選，都是我個人上周在台北吃過的餐廳，價錢也差不多在11-12美元左右，雙人份量。套餐A來自金雞園－傳統江浙點心名店，其小籠包與糕點都是名菜；套餐B來自外傘頂洲－海鮮來自當日台灣雲林縣外海的外傘頂洲的連鎖餐廳，牡蠣(蚵仔)與虱目魚是其主要賣點。菜色詳情以下會詳細介紹。

The rules for this giveaway are: 

• How to Join: Just reply with your selection of either Set A or Set B and you are in. Each account is allowed only one answer. Notice that all entries must be made BEFORE the first payout - that’s the cutoff point for deciding the Winning Side.


• Decision of Winning Side: After the first payout, I will count the valid entries from both sides (A and B) and the one with more votes is the Winning Side! Note the votes here is not ‘upvotes’ but your selection of meals only. So, nothing to do with your SP, your vote counts equally with @dantheman if he participates (not likely though :p). Sounds good!? This is food democracy! [if we have a tie, then EACH side will be rewarded!]


• Giveaway PRIZES: For the first 5 entries (1st-5th) on the Winning Side, each will get $0.3 SBD; Subsequent 5 entries (6th-10th) get $0.2 SBD and the next 10 entries (11th-20th) get $0.1 SBD. Total prize pool is $3.5 SBD. Sorry the economy is not as good as one week ago… But there is something to hope for… see next


• Pray for MULTIPLICATION: All the prizes will be MULTIPLIED should the total payout exceeds $15. The multiplier will be M=(total first payout)/15. For example, if the payout turns out to be $60 (same number with my rep now :p), then M=4 and all prizes are 4 times bigger! So the first 5 on winning side gets $1.2 SBD and etc…  

給獎規則：

• 參與：在本帖回覆你選擇套餐A或套餐B即可，每人只能有一個答案。必須在第一次payout結束前回覆才有效，屆時會決定哪邊是獲勝套餐Winning Side。


• 獲勝套餐：第一次payout結束後計票，票多者獲選為獲勝套餐Winning Side，選擇正確的才有獲獎資格。注意在這裡票票等值，跟你的SP無關，就算dan來參加，他的一票也跟你一樣，開心吧？[如果平手，則兩邊一起給獎！]


• 給獎標準：選擇獲勝套餐Winning Side的投票者當中，前5位可獲得$0.3 SBD，5-10位可獲得$0.2 SBD，11-20位可獲得$0.1 SBD。總獎值為$3.5 SBD。抱歉！目前Steem不景氣，跟上周比是差多了，不過，還有機會可以擴大獎項…


• 獎項倍增：如果本帖payout超過$15，則將進行獎項倍增：乘數M是(本帖實際收入)/$15。例如如果本帖能達到$60，則倍增乘數為4，所有獎項將乘上4倍！

Hints:

• Select what you really like or if you don’t have clear preference, select what you think others will like…


• Enjoy the picking process. Don’t worry about the tiny prizes… 


• If you are late to the game, well, count yourself and see which side has better odds


• If you do care about the prizes, Ring Your Whale Friends to upvote and trigger the MULTIPLICATION, if you think you will end up on the winning side.

溫馨提示：

• 選擇你所愛，享受美食幻想，不用太在乎獎項；如果你沒有偏好，那猜猜別人喜歡什麼也不錯


• 如果你比較晚看到，那麼先數數前面的投票狀況或許有助於你獲獎


• 如果你眼見你有機會獲獎，趕緊通知你的大鯨魚朋友來助陣，協助啟動獎項倍增機制！

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In this delicate and delicious meal, we will serve steamed dumpling or aka Xiao Long Bao, Pearl Balls or rice meat balls, seafood porridge with egg yolk, fried beancurd puff with vermicelli soup and finally the dessert - Eight Precious Sweet Rice. 

首先，套餐A，金雞園江浙風味傳統中華美食。今天菜色包括：小籠包、珍珠丸子、海鮮粥、油豆腐細粉，以及最後來個八寶甜飯！你看得懂中文大概也不用我多介紹了，好好用眼睛吃吃看吧！

First, the Xiao Long Bao, served with ginger shreds and soysauce. 

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Take a small bite and release its essence…  

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Pearl Balls. Steamed meal balls with rice coating. Yum.

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Seafood porridge with egg yolk. Hot and Good!

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After you stir it up a little bit, it looks so beautiful and now you can see some seafood inside.  

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Fried beancurd puff with vermicelli soup. This is just another famous traditional JiangZhe dish.

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Something sweet to finish - Eight Precious Sweet Rice. Sweet!

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Take a look around the restaurant. Some news reports (here and here) even compare it, the Golden Chicken, with Din Tai Fung (if you don’t know this restaurant, see @ace108 ‘s report from Singapore). Well, honestly, it is not as good as DTF, but given the price level, it may be comparable!

金雞園40年老餐廳內部的樣子。有些新聞報導甚至將之比擬為平價版的鼎泰豐。平心而論，還是有差距，但考慮價格的話，那可不一定誰勝出啦！

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Don’t rush making your decision, keep looking!

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Okay then. You do have other options and this coming one is definitely a good one! Set B is a fantastic meal from nature’s offerings. If you love seafood, it might steal your stomach. We will serve fried shrimp rolls rice combo, oysters fried noodles, milkfish soup, oyster soup, fried beancurd and boiled vegetables. If Set A is about flavors from a long long time ago, then Set B is about flavors to your mouth in no time from the nature! 

好了，接下來是完全另一種風情。套餐B是走自然新鮮路線的台灣當地美味，喜歡海鮮的朋友可能更愛這個。上菜了，餐點內容有炸蝦捲飯、牡蠣炒麵、虱目魚湯、牡蠣湯、炸豆腐與燙青菜等小菜… 如果套餐A販賣的是古老與時間的醞釀，那麼套餐B賣的就是跟時間賽跑要把大自然風味馬上送到你五臟府的心意。我相信你們都看得懂這美妙的食材可能的滋味啊！

First one is the fried shrimp rolls rice combo. I cut the roll open to let you see inside stuffing - it is crispy, juicy and delicious! 

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Oysters fried noodles - my favorite dish here. Fried with lots of garlic and fresh oysters directly from the sea (the restaurant name is actually the place where all seafood are from). 

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Milkfish soup. Milkfish is a very famous cultivated Taiwan fish which contains a lot of good proteins and hence considered very nutritious. 

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Oyster soup. It is cooked with some sauerkraut to enhance the flavor. Don’t bite your tongue. 

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Side dishes like fried beancurd and boiled vegetables to give you balanced diet.

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Last, an overview for your final consideration.

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Take a look around as well. The bottom shows where the place (also the restaurant name) is in Taiwan. 

餐廳裝潢沒什麼特別，畫面下方是外傘頂洲(也是餐廳名)的位置所在，是雲林縣外海的一個沙洲，有許多養殖漁業。

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That’s it, folks! Now it is time for you to decide: Set A? or Set B? 

Bon appetite and have fun!! 

好了！抉擇時間到了，套餐A？還是套餐B？好好享受吧！

(thanks to @papa-pepper !)

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My reputation just reaches 60… Sweet! ^^ 分享一下，聲譽剛剛達到60，本帖也可以到60嗎？ ^__^ 好玩就好！

UPDATE! The winning side, a little bit to my surprises, is 8-to-1 Set A!! but, unfortunately Multiplication is not activated… still all 8 voters have been given the prize and the lonely Set B supporter is also given a $0.1 as thank you! Seems most people still go for oriental flavor! Thank you all upvoters and participants. It is a nice outcome!

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A few days ago, a payout option of 100% Steem Power is available for authors. You may have already seen it at the bottom of your post editor. Like this…

應該是幾天以前，作者開始可以選擇寫帖收入以100%的Steem Power來支付，你可能早就在發帖編輯器下方看到過了，如下…

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Also recently, if you do not select this 100% SP option, the default payout payment option is also changed slightly - a small portion of your original 50% SBD is paid by Steem instead.  Therefore, you are now paid by ALL three forms of currencies of this Steem system - SBD, Steem and SP. Well, personally I think it is quite messy. Take a look of my record in the following. The blue underlined are the default payment ones and the red one is the one I tried with 100% SPs.

最近還有一項改變：就算你沒有另外選擇100% SP的付款選項，原先的付款方式也已經略有調整了－現在原先你會得到的50% SBD當中會有一小部分改採用Steem來支付。也就是說，你現在的發帖收入會一次得到Steem貨幣生態系當中的全部三種貨幣：SBD、Steem以及SP。我個人是認為看起來很亂，你可以看看我最近的收入紀錄：藍線就是目前的三幣齊發，紅線則是我試驗的100% SP，看起來簡單多了。

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The following is my suggestion to authors fulfilling certain criteria… 以下是我對於符合以下條件的作者的建議

If you are an author that … 作者們，如果你…

• Don’t need the SBDs in the short run: it could be that most of your posts are under $10, or that you are very successful but you always convert your earned SBDs into Steem and then power up because you are extremely confident on Steemit’s future and/or you don’t need post earnings to pay collaborators or daily bills. 


• 短時間內沒有SBD需求：或許你發帖收入大部分頂多幾塊錢，或許你是成功作家，但是因為你相信steemit未來或是不需要流動性來支付合作者或是日常所需，反正賺到的錢最後還是都轉成SP


• Don’t think that Steem price will keep falling: if you believe in Steemit but are pessimistic about whales’ powering down and the short run price trend, then you should probably store more SBDs…


• 不認為steem價格還會跌多少：當然，如果你是相信steemit但是大鯨魚大量倒貨讓你短期沒有信心會止跌，那還是持有SBD來抗跌價吧

Given the fact and recent trend … 事實跟趨勢是…

• Procedures involved with transferring SBD to exchange, doing a transaction into BTC then into Steems, transferring Steems back to Steemit and then powering up… It is just troublesome and there are some costs associated… Just not worth your time and energy if the amount is not big. Internal markets are easier but the rate is not as good. 


• 把SBD轉到交易所、兌換成BTC比特幣、再兌換成Steem，然後再把Steem轉回來再Power up，其實蠻累的，如果金額不大的話，更何況是有些交易與轉帳的手續費。如果是內部市場是方便多了，但兌換費率比較差…


• Recent Steem price is at least stabilized, if you don’t think an upward trend has been formed. From the recent lowest point of 0.0007 or so, we have the price back to around 0.001 now… IF the price keeps rising, then powering up as soon as you get paid might be a good idea! Of course, there is no guarantee of that.


• 最近的Steem價格如果你不認為是止跌了，那至少也回穩了。從近期低點0.0007左右，現在已經在0.001上下了。如果價格持續上升，那麼得到款項的第一時間就Power up其實是蠻好的選擇… 當然，價格這件事從來沒有一定的…

Hence my suggestion is … 所以，你應該也知道，我的建議就是 …

It is time to choose “Pay me 100% in Steem Power” and grow with this platform NOW !! 

現在是選擇“Pay me 100% in Steem Power”的好時機，一起和這個平台共同成長吧！

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Disclaimer 聲明：1. This post only represents my own personal opinion and I am not sponsored by anyone in any form (but you are welcome to ‘sponsor’ me by upvoting… :P 以上都是我個人看法，本人沒有接受任何人的任何資助，但歡迎你用upvote資助我！:P    2. this post will be paid by 100% SP 本帖選擇100% SP支付

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What do you see? 你看到什麼？

City? Life? Fading sunlight or brewing darkness? 城市？生活？日光的消逝還是將臨的幽暗？

Or maybe just the canvas of Nature? 或者，其實就只是，上蒼的畫布？

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I just found out about this change today. Not sure how long it has been effective… 今天才剛剛發現，不太確定生效多久了… 

So, now you, as an author, will no longer bothered by the 24 hour or first payout cutoff point - before or after that, you can do editing as much as you want… Only the posts older than one month, i.e. after 4 week or second payout, are not allowed to be edited again. Still, one month is fairly enough or even a little bit too long from readers’ perspective (if the author can edit after such a long time… why should we read or upvote so fast?). One convenience it brings about, IMO, is when you need to repetitively post similar contents (like a regular update of something but you still do it manually) then you can copy the code from older post by entering editing mode and easily revise it to be your new post. Hope this is a valuable information for you.

作者們！現在超過24小時或是第一次payout的帖子已經可以重新編輯了！你不用再被24小時的編輯截止點困繞擾了，之前之後都可以任意編輯到你高興為止了。唯一要注意就是超過4周（或一個月，或是第二次payout期限，等義）的帖子還是不能再編輯的。這也很合理，其實4周時間已經很久，甚至太久… 作者其實早該把內容確定好，否則讀者為何要那麼早閱讀或是點讚呢？這次變動可能的好處包括：如果你常常想copy之前舊帖的格式，便於發表類似內容的文章，那你就可以點舊帖的編輯功能，就可以直接copy啦！我已經利用之前的memo帖來嘗試編輯過了，確實是可以的。

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Note. This post will try the 100%SP payout option for the first time. 這帖我首度嘗試一下100% SP報酬試試看。

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Please, don’t bother reading this post if you are not extremely bored.  

Two weeks ago, Steemit introduced the Promotion function. Somehow I found out that you could actually ‘promote’ a ‘comment’ (which is pointless obviously) and the team solved it very quickly along with the problem of promoting posts after first payout… Good. Great!

Days ago, Steemit introduced another new function - “Reblog” (or “Resteem” ?? I am confused…). Which is also interesting and great… Good! Well, this time again I found that there is a button for Reblog/Resteem when you have the comment shown in a single page. See here - comment to my linguistic coffee from the poet @richardjuckes … 

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I have a such a strong desire to just click it and see what happens and I think Richard’s comment looks very good to appear on my blog page so I will give it a go. Although, it is also quite pointless to reblog a comment (which is processed similar to posts in many ways inside the Steemit system). Anyway I clicked it and nothing happened. Nothing new showed up on my blog page. There is one error message though. Saying… (sorry! Richard! your comment is not Top level enough… :p)

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So… Conclusion: You CAN click the reblog button at the comment page but nothing will happen (have fun clicking though… ). And, this is not a bug as the team has obviously cut off this possibility (they just haven’t found time to remove the button I guess… ). If you really want to see bugs… check here: my bugs or @pfunk ‘s more beautiful(?) bugs…  

Have a great day!!

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