@hikari heh, our "was allergic to phones until very recently" is showing 😆

although... interesting memory unlocked wrt phone menus:

"您好，中文請按一。For English, please press two. 廣東話請撳三。"

certainly a rather... to-the-point greeting message for a budget US->Asia calling card service (possibly now defunct? also, remember calling cards?)

@hikari oooh, another recovered childhood memory: extremely aggressive television advertising for "dial-around" long-distance carrier access codes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-10-321 )

we *definitely* remember several cantonese-language commercials being aired on the KTSF TV station, but... we currently can't find any internet evidence that this ever existed? might be unfortunately lost media?

@r advertising is the kind of stuff that should be preserved but i don't think many people care enough to save it

@hikari oh, various English-language ones have been preserved and are easily findable, the problem is specifically just the Cantonese-language ones (that we really hope we are remembering accurately enough)

the problem is that these exist in (what appears to be) a rather unusual media landscape and were probably only aired in limited markets (SF Bay, Los Angeles??)