HONG KONG – Hong Konger Jeffrey Wong started his Instagram account Jyuttoi in 2022, sharing interesting Cantonese idioms to help people pick up the language through casual conversation.
Two years on, he has more than 111,000 followers, among them Hollywood stars like US-born actor Daniel Wu, whose parents hailed from Shanghai; British actor Benedict Wong, whose parents emigrated from Hong Kong; and even Singapore’s Minister for National Development Desmond Lee.
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