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hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Ups_rail posted:

interesting so why do they blend it?

The probably take expensive rice that is X$ per kg and add a bunch of much cheaper rice that costs Y$ per kilogram then sell it for X$ per kilogram.

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Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

WarpedNaba posted:

Eeeeeh, I know this is GBS, but we try to keep 4chan and D&D out of it for the same reasons, buddy.

Also, this'd probably belong in the Korea/Japan thread.
This is the Korea thread since Englais teachers from China go to Korea, or vice-versa, because they like pain.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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historically all asia threads have been subject to fatherly guidance by the glorious and compassionate china thread and now it is time for them to return to their natural place under its dominion

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
BOUT TO GET CRAY CRAY UP IN HEEEERE!!1



I said "hi" and got unmatched with 10 minutes later.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
are you ugly/ into lady boys?

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

I think my favorite part is the overarching theme of "china is doing great believe me, look at all these numbers that I will immediately acknowledge are bullshit, but believe me, china owns"

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Ups_rail posted:

are you ugly/ into lady boys?
No, they are just super rare here so it's a shock and a novelty. When I was in Thailand, finding a non-ladyboy in an app was also a shock. Even my Line was overrun with aggressive ladyboys demanding sex without asking if I was swinging that way.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Coolguye posted:

I think my favorite part is the overarching theme of "china is doing great believe me, look at all these numbers that I will immediately acknowledge are bullshit, but believe me, china owns"

I went to Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, and let me tell you, china is doing great

Dr.Radical
Apr 3, 2011

Known Lecher posted:

I once bought a bag of good-quality, imported Thai jasmine rice. You would have thought I was serving bowls of steamed dog turds from the reaction of the Chinese I served it to. They all reluctantly picked at it while complaining extensively that it wasn't nearly as good as their precious Chinar's Own Dongbei rice from the northeast. No doubt they happily wolfed down whatever crap came with their 9 RMB lunch the next day though.

Rice nationalism is pretty funny. I remember an old guy telling me how he doesn't go to cheap gyudon restaurant X because they use Chinese rice. Cheap gyudon restaurant Y, though, was delicious because they used Japanese rice. I'll let you guess as to how similar the two places taste.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


The nationalism is dumb, but given how efficiently rice concentrates soil/water pollution I also do not eat Chinese rice if at all possible. I don't blame anyone for avoiding it. Chinese people also buy all imported if they can afford it.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
my wife's entire family owns a large rice farm and she was always talking about how bad Chinese rice was and I thought she was just being dramatic but then I went to visit her family for the first time and OMFG the rice is insanely delicious and sooooooo much better than anything I had ever had in china

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo

Grand Fromage posted:

The nationalism is dumb, but given how efficiently rice concentrates soil/water pollution I also do not eat Chinese rice if at all possible. I don't blame anyone for avoiding it. Chinese people also buy all imported if they can afford it.

Yeah I'm kinda picky about rice too. I don't buy American rice because Arsenic.

I get a good laugh at all those health food stores selling "USA Grown" brown rice as if it's something healthier while they're pedalling a product loaded up with arsenic.

quote:

All types of rice (except sushi and quick cooking) with a label indicating that it’s from Arkansas, Louisiana, or Texas or just from the U.S. had the highest levels of inorganic arsenic in our tests.


quote:

Brown rice has 80 percent more inorganic arsenic on average than white rice of the same type.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much-arsenic-is-in-your-rice/index.htm

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


The Great Autismo! posted:

my wife's entire family owns a large rice farm and she was always talking about how bad Chinese rice was and I thought she was just being dramatic but then I went to visit her family for the first time and OMFG the rice is insanely delicious and sooooooo much better than anything I had ever had in china

Well, it's fresh. Rice on the farm is real good, I've had it in Korea.

Japan's extreme, pervasive autism also helps with quality of ingredients.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


MisterOblivious posted:

Yeah I'm kinda picky about rice too. I don't buy American rice because Arsenic.

I get a good laugh at all those health food stores selling "USA Grown" brown rice as if it's something healthier while they're pedalling a product loaded up with arsenic.



http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much-arsenic-is-in-your-rice/index.htm

I knew neither of those things, thanks buddy

I prefer to buy brown rice and non-Chinese rice so this is relevant to me
I also avoid US eggs and beef and dairy if I can
British milk, Danish eggs, Aussie meat
It probably doesnt actually matter but I feel happier for doing it

PS I not a sperglord about this, I still eat at local places, and family relatives' houses without questioning everything on the table, but it's daily lifestyle that kills you, be that beer or drugs or smoking or Saturated Fats or lack of exercise or soil cadmium or growth hormones or other fun things, not what you do once in a while

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo

simplefish posted:

I knew neither of those things, thanks buddy

No problem guy.


I know this has been posted here before, but somebody set it to a new soundtrack and it's good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI64RvRi7R4

Lots of guys stand around and watch. What's the phrase for that?

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!
As somebody in Denmark near the end of a monthlong stay for work-related reasons right now lemme say that Danish eggs specifically suck rear end.

e: not for any health reason that I know of, they're just tasteless

ee: the phrase you're thinking of is probably kan re nao

SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jun 11, 2017

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


In Russia the egg yolks were barely yellow and the eggs were overall bland. I was told it's because the chickens eat buckwheat and millet instead of CORRRRRNNMM

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

MisterOblivious posted:

Lots of guys stand around and watch. What's the phrase for that?

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

MisterOblivious posted:

No problem guy.


I know this has been posted here before, but somebody set it to a new soundtrack and it's good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI64RvRi7R4

Lots of guys stand around and watch. What's the phrase for that?

kŕn rč nao

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Grand Fromage posted:

No, I've never seen non white rice served here. You can buy some varieties in fancy stores.

I think all the rice husks end up in those fiber biscuits, which are good.

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
Where should I buy rice from so I won't be 30 percent metal in 20 years?

Jusupov
May 24, 2007
only text

nickmeister posted:

Where should I buy rice from so I won't be 30 percent metal in 20 years?

Use that vietnamese/chinese/indian plastic rice, 0% metal

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts



I feel like I would stand around and watch this too, how is it different when Chinese people do it?

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

MisterOblivious posted:

No problem guy.


I know this has been posted here before, but somebody set it to a new soundtrack and it's good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI64RvRi7R4

Lots of guys stand around and watch. What's the phrase for that?

The jets of water ensure that the car doesn't immediately burst into flame. Very efficient! China wins again!

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

communism bitch posted:

The jets of water ensure that the car doesn't immediately burst into flame. Very efficient! China wins again!

Pretty sure that's America.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

VideoTapir posted:

Pretty sure that's America.

America wins again!

Double Monocle
Sep 4, 2008

Smug as fuck.

Krinkle posted:

I feel like I would stand around and watch this too, how is it different when Chinese people do it?

Not jumping through an active hydrant of water, but still stopping, attempting to verbally contact driver, and calling 911 =/= standing and watching a women in the middle of the street, within feet of you struck multiple times by cars which could have easily avoided her while doing nothing.

twerking on the railroad
Jun 23, 2007

Get on my level

nickmeister posted:

Where should I buy rice from so I won't be 30 percent metal in 20 years?

Not these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9P-t8VX6Pw

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
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:backtowork:
Your plastic lunch box is an old blood bag

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2097871/grisly-find-exposes-chinas-dirty-trade-used-blood-bags

Pravda posted:

More than 140 tonnes of used plastic medical supplies, including syringes and blood bags, was illegally sold off through an underground network of recyclers on the mainland, state media reported on the weekend. The workshop’s yard was covered in piles of used medical supplies, with liquid residue from IV bags leaking onto the ground and syringes caked in dried blood. There was also a stench in the air, the report said.

The men – several workers and a dealer – said they bought the waste from a rubbish dump for 2,000 yuan (HK$2,300) a tonne, manually sorted the waste into categories, washed it, and chopped and smashed it into pieces. The material was then sold to another dealer for 5,000 yuan a tonne, they were quoted as saying. Investigators said one dealer in Langfang, Hebei province, traded in tonnes of the waste, which he processed into untraceable materials. The plastic was sold on for use in manufacturing pipes, and supplies for the food and medical industries, the report said.

Among the evidence collected in Miluo were IV drip bags and blood bags from hospitals in Xiangtan, Zhuzhou and Hengyang in Hunan province, and Xiangyang in Hubei province.

of course it's hunan

TTerrible
Jul 15, 2005
This world is a game of Pandemic and best china is about to win.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
In a way, though, 看熱鬧 would have saved that woman in the street. If enough people had been standing around staring at her, drivers would have seen a group of people and stopped to see what they were all looking at.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
I thought it was henan that pulled poo poo like that.

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


image text goes here

The Great Autismo! posted:

my wife's entire family owns a large rice farm and she was always talking about how bad Chinese rice was and I thought she was just being dramatic but then I went to visit her family for the first time and OMFG the rice is insanely delicious and sooooooo much better than anything I had ever had in china

Yeah, we get 新米 from my father in law's family and goddamn it's good.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

this is technically correct but no one uses it. it's like using Shakespearean English. Everyone uses 看热闹

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


reduce, reuse, recycle

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
*Turn on People Nearby in Wechat, see if anyone wants to talk*
*Get a message*
*Open it up*



*Clear my location in People Nearby, go back to skateboarding*

Also,
I don't know about you guys, but I don't eat rice. Maybe once per week, I am not sure. I love rice, but I don't do rice in China.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Haier posted:

*Turn on People Nearby in Wechat, see if anyone wants to talk*
*Get a message*
*Open it up*



*Clear my location in People Nearby, go back to skateboarding*

Also,
I don't know about you guys, but I don't eat rice. Maybe once per week, I am not sure. I love rice, but I don't do rice in China.

But it's the most famous food in china!!!

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\
:backtowork:
I honestly can't remember a day when I haven't had SOME rice in the past ten years or so

Fat Jesus
Jul 13, 2011

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2023




ingenious folk those orientals

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Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug
These dudes have the worst haircuts.

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