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oohhboy posted:People like to see the game they are playing. that part in MGS with the snowstorm, same with uhhh, whatever that russian game where you paid with bullets was I mean, drat, that game was like post-apoc Russia, surely China can copy that? Even had people living in subways; China already got a leg up on that with the whole underground neighborhoods Atlas Hugged posted:I introduced my Texan friend's Mainland girlfriend to tacos last night. She was blown away. She's from Sichuan and considers herself to be the queen of spicy, but discovered for the first time last night that peppers come in multiple flavors. She's cooked for us a few times and while it doesn't taste bad, I'm guessing the giant bag of salt she keeps on her counter is the main ingredient. I tried to explain to her that unless a recipe specifically calls for salt, like baking a cake or something, there's usually no reason to add any since any pre-made sauce or seasoning she's using will also have salt in it.
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oohhboy posted:Boo whoo, little Hong Kong is trying to subvert CCP threatening to destabilise China. Starts drawing arbitrary lines they themselves will abandon at in the first moment of inconvenience. The autistic screeching continues. They're really putting on a great show to entice Taiwan to rejoin the fold.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I'm thinking of fallout, with the filters, silent hill, all the other games more like Superman 64 with all that distance fog
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Pham Nuwen posted:more like Superman 64 with all that distance fog also when he fucks up and crashes into a building he just acts like nothing happened
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Atlas Hugged posted:I introduced my Texan friend's Mainland girlfriend to tacos last night. She was blown away. She's from Sichuan and considers herself to be the queen of spicy, but discovered for the first time last night that peppers come in multiple flavors. She's cooked for us a few times and while it doesn't taste bad, I'm guessing the giant bag of salt she keeps on her counter is the main ingredient. I tried to explain to her that unless a recipe specifically calls for salt, like baking a cake or something, there's usually no reason to add any since any pre-made sauce or seasoning she's using will also have salt in it. Salt is the most important thing though, but yeah I guess if you're only using pre-made sauces. My Chinese ex was very impressed with my cooking because I used sauce at home "like a real fancy restaurant" and she grew up with salt as the only seasoning used, ever. Like not even soy sauce, just straight salt.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:You sure that ain't MSG? Which reminds me actually, I'm running low so I should go to the thai market and get some mo' The big bag of salt that says salt on it? Yeah I'm pretty sure it's salt. I bet she's also using MSG, but it's the saltiness that's a problem.
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Pham Nuwen posted:more like Superman 64 with all that distance fog Superman64's draw distance fog might actually be better than China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpBwU3PTX8 Deceitful Penguin posted:I'm thinking of fallout, with the filters, silent hill, all the other games Metro 2033 is the Russian game. A Chinese version would have everyone starve to death as you can't eat Face. Soy sauce already has small amount of MSG in it. For most foods  that aren't pre-made you should add a dash of salt to help bring out the flavour. MSG gets you the flavour without the saltiness but is viewed as a shortcut unlike salt and sugar. People freak about it for some reason like because chemicals.
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I like msg but it makes my family sick. I'm the only one that isnt destroying a toilet and screaming about painful gas and bloat after an msg heavy meal.
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Grand Fromage posted:Salt is the most important thing though, but yeah I guess if you're only using pre-made sauces. My Chinese ex was very impressed with my cooking because I used sauce at home "like a real fancy restaurant" and she grew up with salt as the only seasoning used, ever. Like not even soy sauce, just straight salt. If you are using any bottle of sauce or pack of seasoning I really don't think you need to be adding salt at all. It's not like she's grinding peppercorn and pounding herbs in her studio apartment.
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I married a Taiwan #1 thank you very much. She can't cook to save her life though.
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The stereotype I developed so far is, Taiwanese men typically can't cook and don't see it as their responsibility. In Taipei both men and women can't cook, same deal, special case for that city (even if that's 1/3 the pop). Taipei apartments don't come with a kitchen standard. Maybe a hotplate and a fridge. Sichuan girls are not good at cooking, but can, and the men are much better. Modest Mao fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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She's from the south. Her dad apparently went to chef school and spends most of his free time baking and her mom is a typical homemaker who can cook the standard dishes. She somehow never bothered to learn and found herself a husband who cooks and changes diapers.
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Modest Mao posted:The stereotype I developed so far is, Taiwanese men typically can't cook and don't see it as their responsibility. so if both men and women cant cook....how do they eat good food?
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Dicky mouse posted:so if both men and women cant cook....how do they eat good food? Taipei sounds like Hong Kong, people eat out the vast majority of the time.
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便當很好吃！我真的喜歡沒有味道的食物。
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Modest Mao posted:The stereotype I developed so far is, Taiwanese men typically can't cook and don't see it as their responsibility. Maybe true, every professional chef I've met here is a dude. Dunno why though. My current landlord is a retired chef born and raised in Sichuan but then decided to branch out and moved to Urumqi where he worked at some decent-ish hotel and learned how to cook all sorts of central Asian halal dishes. We live in the same complex and he invited me over to eat with him and his family right before new years and he cooked a few amazing lamb and yak dishes. I guess yak is halal. He even bakes his own naan (I dunno the actual name of flat central asian breads but it looks a lot like naan) and gave me a bunch, A+ landlord. Atlas Hugged posted:I introduced my Texan friend's Mainland girlfriend to tacos last night. She was blown away. She's from Sichuan and considers herself to be the queen of spicy, but discovered for the first time last night that peppers come in multiple flavors. She's cooked for us a few times and while it doesn't taste bad, I'm guessing the giant bag of salt she keeps on her counter is the main ingredient. I tried to explain to her that unless a recipe specifically calls for salt, like baking a cake or something, there's usually no reason to add any since any pre-made sauce or seasoning she's using will also have salt in it. tbh most Sichuan people wouldn't say sichuan food is as "spicy" as mexican food cuz they're different kinds of spicy which get lumped together in translation. Sichuan food is by far the most ma food in China, but it ain't the most la. That's like Hunan or Guizhou food which most of my friends here in Sichuan openly admit they're afraid of cuz it's too spicy. Hunan food is generally way spicier than most texmex/central American stuff. Really authentic hunan food is just kinda sadistically spicy, tbh. A friend of mine from shanghai said the food there is so spicy because it's so awful to live in hunan they make the food spicy enough so that they can forget. Shanghai people really seem to hate people not from Shanghai. Mexican stuff is having some weird boom in chengdu right now and a ton of places have opened and seem popular in the last year. As it's all tortilla+rice+meat+veg it makes sense it'd be popular here though.
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Go drink some oil. You have experienced Sichuan food.
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Go drink some oil. You have experienced Sichuan food. *Wonders why you are making GBS threads yourself to death*
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I was walking outside and saw this hella old white guy walking and this ayi was barreling towards him on her e-bike without any hint of slowing down. She made no effort to go around him at all, despite having like 5 meters of open space around him. At the last moment he turned and put his hand out and grabbed the front basket on the bike. The bike stopped and he acted like nothing even happened and just kept walking. The ayi had a look on her face like "WAS THAT A LAOWAI? WHY IS HE SO OLD AND STRONG?" Then she started the bike again and kept going. Dude is a genius. I never thought of grabbing retards by the bike before.
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Haier posted:I was walking outside and saw this hella old white guy walking and this ayi was barreling towards him on her e-bike without any hint of slowing down. She made no effort to go around him at all, despite having like 5 meters of open space around him. At the last moment he turned and put his hand out and grabbed the front basket on the bike. The bike stopped and he acted like nothing even happened and just kept walking. The ayi had a look on her face like "WAS THAT A LAOWAI? WHY IS HE SO OLD AND STRONG?" Then she started the bike again and kept going. Sounds like a kung-fu master.
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BONGHITZ posted:Does anyone know what those things on the plate are? Look like longan- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longan
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Magna Kaser posted:Look like longan- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longan might be, kind of looks like there's a stem sticking out. on the other hand, the color doesn't look like longan
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Invisible Handjob posted:might be, kind of looks like there's a stem sticking out. on the other hand, the color doesn't look like longan It's most likely lychee.
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Lychees are red you doofus. Longans are brown
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Blistex posted:I explain that "colour" has a "u" in it, and that the US is the only place which doesn't use a "u" in it, but every university in Canada and the US will accept either spelling. That's a great story. My wife told me that when she went to college in Canada the professor who graded her first paper failed her for spelling color wrong and refused to let her re-write it.
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caberham posted:Lychees are red you doofus. Oh no, I must protect my Face! By the power of Google, I summon FAO. Lychee posted:The skin (pericarp) ranges from yellow to pinkish or red and is leathery, with small, short, conical or rounded protuberances. Longan posted:The fruits are similar to those of the lychee, but smaller, smoother and yellowish-tan in color. Your move, face loser! 
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Couch to 0k (with Chinese characteristics)
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Accretionist posted:SUBWAY AD, BEIJING: No one cared who she was until she put on the mask.
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Let us English posted:That's a great story. I'm sorry your wife ended up with an rear end in a top hat with an inferiority complex for a proff. The dean of English at my university was saying that there was a generally accepted rule amongst proffs that either spelling is fine since it's not a big deal to anyone who isn't an idiot. (his words)
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Deceitful Penguin posted:how the gently caress is there not a goddamn real cyberpunk china game mission 1: find the handsurm laowai
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