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   マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:24:51 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

   I totally forgot about this until Google Photos reminded me today. Last month, I came across this weirdly named coffee place in Shanghai Pudong Airport. I can't figure out if it's just a misspelling of Cakes that was too complicated to correct after the fact, or if there is supposed to be some other meaning. 🤔
   FWIW, the Chinese 咖啡美食 means something like Coffee & Fine Foods.
   #CoffeeAndCates #Shanghai #China

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     Robert Belton (shiawase@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:51:11 JST Robert Belton

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     @mario
     Somebody found a suitable word to fit that is no longer in use.
     Actually quite clever but I don’t think a native speaker would have chosen it.

     https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cates

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     マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:52:55 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

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     • Robert Belton

     @shiawase ha, perfect. Yeah that matches the Chinese meaning of 美食, so I guess that where it came from. Never even heard of that word in English (admittedly I am not a native English speaker, but consider myself pretty fluid after 30-odd years in London 😁).