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Ccs posted:My girlfriend loves hot pot. And there's so much Chinese immigration to Canada that there's 3 hot pot restaurants in this city, so I can't avoid it. I don't get it. The meats are these thinly sliced things that don't have much flavor, and the vegetables are just... water cooked vegetables. But it ends up being really expensive. More than a sushi buffet. That's like Winnipeg levels of hot pot. Here's Richmond: 
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Jeoh posted:is this why they keep flocking to your apartment
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VideoTapir posted:Or just in general. Halal is the way to go in China, since at least some attention was paid to hygiene. Depends on the place but yeah Muslim and Buddhist restuarants are my go to for food in China. I can't stand the oil, white rice, bony fish, sickeningly sweet or the numbing spicy of the different regions food. Another random observation of language and the cultural barrier. Sick = lazy, not feeling it, don't want to, mild cold, headache, pain, severe period cramp, lost fingers, lost limbs, gangrene and everything in between. But in my experience is used on the very light side of the spectrum, I'm tired, I'm bored, I don't want to do this. So when I'm really sick you get an understanding gap, like this: I am on a business trip and get the biblical laduzi fountain from both holes. I am sick.  I will not be coming into the meeting tomorrow. I tell the liason, I am sick.  'Oh, but the meeting is important, you can't come? This is a big problem." No its not, a gopher will take the cliff notes so you have an idea which I will follow up probably in two days when I'm not sick and have had all the immodium. You should not eat Chinese food, Chinese food is for Chinese, you should eat foreign food. This is your fault and will cause a big problem. I'm going to the loving hospital, the gopher will bring the loving papers. I'm trying to help you, this is your problem you eat Chinese food A stream of non swearing anger Ok, ok, i will present gophers notesThey think the gopher notes aren't impressive enough, so rather than explain the situation down to laduzi which is so common its an understandable excuse for pretty much anything they baidu translate a random wikipedia page related to what we are doing and present that. Spicy = light numbing, medium numbing, small firey, medium firey Oh you know spicy food? Have you tried this? its ok, I prefer currys for the spicy food thoughIndian food is dirty Have you tried?No, its just too dirtySince I have some authority, I decide to be a bastard and organise a team lunch at an expat Indian resturant. Most of the fuckers, just eat pilou rice. A handful gave the curry a go, said they liked it, but now actively avoid talking about spice to me. BCR fucked around with this message at 17:36 on May 6, 2017 |
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McGavin posted:That's like Winnipeg levels of hot pot. Really craving some "dollar hot pot". Also come on man... "To Hot Hot Pot"??? Should have called it "Too Hot To Pot". Chinese gotta take notes from the the Vietnamese. They know how to work a restaurant name!!! 
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May 6, 2017 17:47
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nickmeister posted:It really sounded more like a story about China than Taiwan. It specifically says Taiwan
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Chomp8645 posted:Really craving some "dollar hot pot". There is also Hanppy Tofu Pot House, So Hot So Pot, and Typical Noodles. McGavin fucked around with this message at 17:50 on May 6, 2017 |
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May 6, 2017 17:48
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I'd go to a "Not Hot Pot"
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I will say that hot pot is better than shanghai food. "lets just cover everything in sugar or honey guys, that will be awesome, right?"
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*slowly rolls up to thread on three-wheeled tractor hauling 400 lbs of empty plastic bottles, leans over with a conspiratorial grin* "Actually, hot pot is good"
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Jeoh posted:is this why they keep flocking to your apartment Holy poo poo
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BCR posted:I will say that hot pot is better than shanghai food. One of the worst cuisines on earth, no question.
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So as we're all slowly starting to realize that China's economic numbers are all very suspicious, how is this going to affect entertainment? Like, right now it seems like every major studio movie is attempting to shoe-horn in something to appeal to the Chinese market, and the box office numbers for China are taken very seriously (almost as seriously as US opening numbers). Is there anything to suggest that these numbers might not be legit, or that studios aren't actually getting the amount of money out of China that they claim to? Will the "naked appeal to the Chinese market" trope in today's movies go the way of the "sinister Japanese corporation/businessman" trope of the late 80s/early 90s?
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reality will catch up with the statistics by 2020
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LanceHunter posted:So as we're all slowly starting to realize that China's economic numbers are all very suspicious, how is this going to affect entertainment? Like, right now it seems like every major studio movie is attempting to shoe-horn in something to appeal to the Chinese market, and the box office numbers for China are taken very seriously (almost as seriously as US opening numbers). Is there anything to suggest that these numbers might not be legit, or that studios aren't actually getting the amount of money out of China that they claim to? Will the "naked appeal to the Chinese market" trope in today's movies go the way of the "sinister Japanese corporation/businessman" trope of the late 80s/early 90s? the irony is that china isnt actually all that important to whether or not a movie is profitable everyone looks at the couple of instances where a flop was saved in china which masks the fact that only a small percentage of box office returns ever come from china
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Cantonese food is in fact the best food sorry China goons who didnt live in guangdong.
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hakimashou posted:Cantonese food is in fact the best food sorry China goons who didnt live in guangdong. weird way of spelling sichuan
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Hollywood seems like it's run by a bunch of idiots who don't understand basic statistics sometimes. Take how much you spent making the movie, add to that how much you spent promoting it. Subtract that from what you made (not just on opening weekend). This is the profit, movies that have high profit are good for the money. Ta da.
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Glenn Quebec posted:That's because he didn't because Sichuan is terrible This guy gets it. Some sichuanese food is OK but as a cuisine, its got nothing on cantonese.
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LimburgLimbo posted:That hot pot story is likely bullshit anyway. Something like that there would be new stories and more attention. Also no ambulance? Taiwan has a pretty good medical system from my understanding. No I believe it. Everyone says Taiwan has a great healthcare system, but I have gotten some really poo poo service and outright lies told to me by doctors to make the foreigners go away. Almost everyone I know has a story like that.
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ntan1 posted:https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/the-struggles-of-writing-about-chinese-food-as-a-chinese-person quote:Prosciutto, in the Western world, is glorified, but people have rarely heard of Chinese ham. Marco Polo allegedly brought ham-making techniques from the Chinese city of Jinhua to Europe, and many of today's processing technologies for dry-cured hams have evolved from the techniques from this modest Chinese city Hear that Western world? China invented ham.
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Fojar38 posted:marco polo sure could carry a lot gunpowder, compass, printing press, AND ham!
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Haier posted:Mainlanders love it. A critical thinker will see that 99% of what Mainlanders enjoy is garbage, so... Jeoh posted:is this why they keep flocking to your apartment holy poo poo also hot pot is really good and you guys are dumb if you don't like it
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:*slowly rolls up to thread on three-wheeled tractor hauling 400 lbs of empty plastic bottles, leans over with a conspiratorial grin* lol
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So are hot pot and shabu-shabu analogous? Because shabu-shabu is lame, and I'm imaging hot pot to be equally lame as a result.
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bedpan posted:Hear that Western world? China invented ham. I know vice is absolute poo poo but is a 30 second google search to fact check too much to ask? 
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big time bisexual posted:I know vice is absolute poo poo but is a 30 second google search to fact check too much to ask? clearly sino-roman contact was far more extensive than we thought if the romans were able to learn how to cure ham that early
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big time bisexual posted:I know vice is absolute poo poo but is a 30 second google search to fact check too much to ask? rice flour, see? China wins again
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Wizchine posted:So are hot pot and shabu-shabu analogous? Because shabu-shabu is lame, and I'm imaging hot pot to be equally lame as a result. shabu shabu is a style of hot pot sichuan hot pot is the best hot pot, and if you don't think so, well, you'll just have to live your life being incorrect about this topic
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Friends and beer and a good hot pot place is one of the best ways to spend a couple hours in China.
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hakimashou posted:Friends and beer and a good hot pot place is one of the best ways to spend a couple hours in China. the best two ways to spend time in china are either sitting outside with your friends on the side of the street on a summer's eve eating really good xinjiang skewers, ideally from way out west xinjiang, or going to sichuan hot pot in the winter and sitting there for a few hours with your friends and eating really good sichuan spicy hot pot food the food is the best part of china, the beer kinda sucks but there are places that are starting to pop up that are like microbrews that offer something other than tsingdao or harbin or snow
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The Great Autismo! posted:the best two ways to spend time in china are either sitting outside with your friends on the side of the street on a summer's eve eating really good xinjiang skewers, ideally from way out west xinjiang, or going to sichuan hot pot in the winter and sitting there for a few hours with your friends and eating really good sichuan spicy hot pot food I'd say the #1 way to spend time in china is drinking the lovely beer, eating whatever, and playing drinking dice. Hot pot is definitely a winter only thing at least in the souf though.
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Cheap beer and friends and an activity is good whether it is food event or chat with snacks or peoplewatching or hiking or chilling on a boat or live music or a game arcade or boardgames or watching soviet sci-fi from the 1940s.
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Just recently my cousin in Hawaii invited me to go eat at a hot pot restaurant some time later this year. I guess it's his favorite place or something. It's a Japanese one: http://ichirikinabe.com/ Any goons ever eat here before? Haier's from Hawaii right? If you take a look at the dinner menu, what broth would you pick? I don't have any experience with nabe, so I don't know what's good.
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LimburgLimbo posted:It specifically says Taiwan I know, but I was responding to someone else saying that the story sounded fabricated. big time bisexual posted:I know vice is absolute poo poo but is a 30 second google search to fact check too much to ask? Whenever I try to talk to someone here about ancient civilizations that aren't China, their eyes glaze over. Or when I point out that people eat rice all over the world quite frequently, when they recover from the shock of this revelation say, "But... they don't eat rice every meal, right?  "GoutPatrol posted:No I believe it. Everyone says Taiwan has a great healthcare system, but I have gotten some really poo poo service and outright lies told to me by doctors to make the foreigners go away. Almost everyone I know has a story like that. Can you share any stories? Was there trouble with communication or did they not even have that excuse to try and get rid of you?
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Chomp8645 posted:
This restaurant used to be at Victoria and Kingsway in Vancouver: 
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Escape Addict posted:Just recently my cousin in Hawaii invited me to go eat at a hot pot restaurant some time later this year. I guess it's his favorite place or something. It's a Japanese one: I've never been there, so I can't say exactly, but based on my general knowledge there are a lot of variables to consider. How comfortable are you with spice and are you getting seafood, beef, or pork? Ichiriki or miso with beef or paitan with pork are probably the closest to authentic, but tom yum with seafood would also be pretty good if it's done right. Personally, I'm down with spicy, so I'd pick angry goma with pork belly. McGavin fucked around with this message at 03:34 on May 7, 2017 |
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McGavin posted:I've never been there, so I can't say exactly, but based on my general knowledge there are a lot of variables to consider. How comfortable are you with spice and are you getting seafood, beef, or pork? I love spicy food so maybe I'll go with that angry goma. It's supposed to have jalepenos and habeneros, which is right up my alley. That said, the ginger-based broth sounded quite appealing as well since ginger is one of my favorite flavors. I have a bunch of relatives with no spicy food tolerance at all, so maybe I'll get to sample a variety.
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Escape Addict posted:Just recently my cousin in Hawaii invited me to go eat at a hot pot restaurant some time later this year. I guess it's his favorite place or something. It's a Japanese one: This is kind of confusing though because it seems like they're using "nabe" and "shabu shabu" interchangeably. As someone said above, nabe is more like a stew where you eat everything including the broth, shabu shabu is more like the Chinese hot pot where you dip stuff in to cook and then eat it. Any way, I agree with the guy who would go with angry goma.
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