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Hey China thread. What's the difference between a chinese kitchen and a western kitchen? https://www.ft.com/content/3557750e-c559-11e3-89a9-00144feabdc0 quote:European furnishings may be in vogue but interiors still cater to Chinese functionality. Many villas, for example, are built with both a western and Chinese kitchen – the former is for show and the latter to do the cooking. Two kitchens?  Some googling lead me to a strange website with an assortment of chinese kitchens. But the website looks straight out of 1995 so these may not be contemporary. http://www.paulnoll.com/Oregon/Chinese/kitchens-optic.html  Okay a Chinese kitchen has no oven. And a hotplate with 1 or 2 burners instead of a 4 burner stovetop. And a much smaller fridge than you get in american kitchens. Includes a rice cooker but maybe no microwave? So why not cook in the westerns style kitchen if you have one? To my round eyes the Chinese style kitchen doesn't seem to have any functions that are missing from a western style kitchen. Most of the examples are small and cluttered, which saves steps I guess.
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China has a few thousand years' lead on us when it comes to kitchens, it's not something you would understand.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:02
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If you had like a jet wok burner and a big ventilation thing it might make sense I guess.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:04
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Ups_rail posted:But why dump on chaingmai when they got the tiggers. Your second question is that it only recently became a place for families and tourists. For many, many decades (from Vietnam War times), it was a US Navy shore leave sex land (particularly Pattaya) and the "best" place in Mainland Asia to pick up a cheap Asian wife. It was extremely cheap, hookers were included with hotel room prices, and lonely men from all over the world retired there to get cheap beer and sex until they died of heart attacks. It was also a great place to get drugs, and tons of backpackers flocked there for "exotic" year-long holidays where they taught English to little kids and got super rowdy and wasted at night, or just lived in a haze since the cost of living nicely was like $100 a month a couple decades ago. Back when weed was still an important reason to go somewhere (like how Amsterdam was famous), Thailand was one of those places where weed was everywhere and cops were easily bribed, not to mention all the drugs easily found there. Even when I was a kid meth was a popular problem people didn't want to talk about much. The prostitute scene and culture surrounding catering to foreigners has never stopped, has become more ingrained than ever no matter what the government pretends to do, because those same type of guys never stopped coming (lol), and people there in the countryside are as poor as ever. Even with all the glitz and "international destination" monikers and Chinese tour groups now, you can still find whatever seedy stuff you want. Basically, like 40+ years of Thailand being a place where a guy could bang whores and get drunk every night for 1/5th of their pension, or cheap holiday away from home will probably to do the same, will always be part of its reputation, especially since all of that is still part of the package.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:06
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Facebook Aunt posted:So why not cook in the westerns style kitchen if you have one? To my round eyes the Chinese style kitchen doesn't seem to have any functions that are missing from a western style kitchen. Most of the examples are small and cluttered, which saves steps I guess. See kitchen. Oil splatters go all the way up and around the ceiling and walls. Kitchen is like 2m square. "This is fine"
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Jul 4, 2018 05:08
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Facebook Aunt posted:Hey China thread. What's the difference between a chinese kitchen and a western kitchen? This is a pretty normal kitchen in an older apartment. I've never heard of this two kitchen thing before. Standard is two burners (not particularly strong), small fridge, no counter space, small sink. My apartment's kitchen is fairly large by Asian apartment standards and is still tiny. That one in the pic has a lot more counter space. You get used to it but it's in no way superior.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:09
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Facebook Aunt posted:Hey China thread. What's the difference between a chinese kitchen and a western kitchen? Are you really thinking that big mansions that have two kitchens have some tiny grungy 90's Chinese style kitchen because you found it on some dudes old rear end Geocitiesesqe website
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Jul 4, 2018 05:09
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LimburgLimbo posted:Are you really thinking that big mansions that have two kitchens have some tiny grungy 90's Chinese style kitchen because you found it on some dudes old rear end Geocitiesesqe website I don't know that's why I'm asking. The article was criminally short on pictures as it described the villas.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:12
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Just picture the tackiest thing you can possibly imagine. Someone blew up Liberace with a grenade inside of Versailles, but it's all cheaply made trash. Rich Chinese apartments all look like that.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:16
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One is for show so you don’t want to get it dirty. The other one is the one the help actually uses. I mean it’s weird that they describe them as “a Western kitchen and a Chinese kitchen” but I would guess that yeah the Chinese one doesn’t have an oven
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Jul 4, 2018 05:20
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Its like Versailles and Neuschwanstein gave birth to your house. That chinese kitchen is also uniquitous and universally awful and sweet god why doesnt anybody install elbows/u-bends in the plumming
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Jul 4, 2018 05:21
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I dunno I can kinda see the appeal of cooking in an enclosed, smaller, mostly tile room with a big vent hood and a couple wok burners, especially for vigorous stir-frying that loves to spray a thin film of oil droplets all over the place. Wouldn't necessarily HAVE to be a tiny grungy broom-closet to have some advantages over the ridiculous open-plan great rooms that tend to be popular in expensive western houses, especially ones decorated with a bunch of crushed velvet and gold tassels and whatever the gently caress.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:24
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I've never seen a Chinese apartment with a wok burner in the kitchen. I have a little adapter thing that will hold a wok to my burner, but it doesn't have anything remotely close to the heat needed for proper stir fry.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:25
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Pro PRC Laowai posted:https://youtu.be/f4hUZwdZKqg This is good, but it’s also humanizing, and therefore does not belong in this thread. “drat, he’s good. It’s like staring into the sun!“
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Jul 4, 2018 05:25
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hailthefish posted:I dunno I can kinda see the appeal of cooking in an enclosed, smaller, mostly tile room with a big vent hood and a couple wok burners, especially for vigorous stir-frying that loves to spray a thin film of oil droplets all over the place It also helps if you cook extremely spicy and dont want that permeating the whole house, thats a spice kitchen. Its the forgoing the oven that always gets me
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Dunno if this has been posted before, but I hadn't seen it so: http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/bro-code Small sample: quote:Group sex can also directly demonstrate a man’s relative standing in the group. A friend’s husband, formerly involved in the coal business in Shaanxi province, described this. “You’re there [in the KTV] with these jumped-up thugs. One of them picks a girl, and then he fucks her, and everybody else has to watch. The most important boss there goes first. At least it’s over quick.” Other members of the group then have to follow the bosses’ lead with the woman. Those who can’t perform in front of other men, he added, are mocked.
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Jul 4, 2018 05:27
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:This is good, but it’s also humanizing, and therefore does not belong in this thread. The “Laowai 👍” at the end had me dying but I suppose you’re right
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Bajaj posted:When they have WHAT? tigers (stupid auto correct) ? how did you dad meet your thai mom? Ups_rail fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jul 4, 2018 |
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Jul 4, 2018 06:15
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Ups_rail posted:tigers (stupid auto correct) At first I thought you were using some kind of Thai racial slur, but after conducting some research, I've discovered you're correct: 
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Jul 4, 2018 06:43
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BexGu posted:Against China's own people? No. But if they us it against another military? Funny thing about using weapons that are considered war crimes is that then other armies don't tend to follow the Geneva Convention when fighting, capturing and dealing with war time prisoners. ... and China gives a poo poo about its cannon fodder?
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Jul 4, 2018 06:44
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Barudak posted:Its like Versailles and Neuschwanstein gave birth to your house. because they love the smell of poo gas.
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Jul 4, 2018 06:45
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Every kitchen I've had in China has had a burner 100x more powerful than and a hood above it way bigger than anything I ever had in the US. I think the lowest setting on my current stove is somewhere between medium and high on any I had back home. Those are the only two differences I cant think of.
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Jul 4, 2018 07:25
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More like a private room with small doorway and ventilated hood to keep the smells out of the house. Not an open kitchen
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Jul 4, 2018 10:49
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One kitchen to show off, and another kitchen for the ayi to actually cook in? Seems pretty obvious.
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Jul 4, 2018 12:04
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Pirate Radar posted:Taiwan’s cool if you like: Also being able to visit #1 country
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Jul 4, 2018 12:04
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The head of HNA, a company in huge debt with murky Party ties, just died in France because he climbed over a wall to get a better camera shot. No word on whether he left a convenient note before conveniently falling to his death.
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Jul 4, 2018 14:21
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I almost died in France once by drunkenly jumping off a wall that I thought was not a barrier over a steep hill. It was. I think this is totally France's fault.
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Jul 4, 2018 14:29
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Escape Addict posted:At first I thought you were using some kind of Thai racial slur, but after conducting some research, I've discovered you're correct: They had to go somewhere after Uncle Xi banned them all from China along with Pooh 
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Jul 4, 2018 14:35
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so if xi is pooh who is piglet
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Cry Havoc posted:so if xi is pooh who is piglet classic fresh off the boat emigrant to 'straya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGkxpx-O91U
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Jul 4, 2018 16:02
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I almost died in France once by drunkenly jumping off a wall that I thought was not a barrier over a steep hill. It was. I think this is totally France's fault. *Mimes* "Mais, non"
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Imperialist Dog posted:The head of HNA, a company in huge debt with murky Party ties, just died in France because he climbed over a wall to get a better camera shot. No word on whether he left a convenient note before conveniently falling to his death. Ugh, HNA, even in the context of large Chinese companies, they are shady as poo poo, I've been hoping for their demise for some time now. It won't happen though, as like you say, the murky party ties will keep them afloat like a turd you can't quite flush down. R.I.Piss
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Jul 4, 2018 17:03
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That's Cambodia, captain
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Jul 4, 2018 17:24
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I wonder if the Khmer will ever have a democracy.
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Jul 4, 2018 20:26
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I'll be interested to see how China's new self-driving buses pan out. http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/07/05/18/chinas-baidu-rolls-out-self-driving-buses
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Jul 5, 2018 00:34
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poo poo who left this pile of self driving busses on the sidewalk??
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Jul 5, 2018 00:39
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Gromit posted:I'll be interested to see how China's new self-driving buses pan out. I'm going to guess exactly the same as their previous game-changing bus technology.
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Jul 5, 2018 00:40
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Gromit posted:I'll be interested to see how China's new self-driving buses pan out. they'll just build them like tanks, heavy enough to unequivocally demolish any vehicle and pastify any pedestrian they come across so they don't have to pay post-injury care reparations. and then they drive at maximum speed along their set route
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Jul 5, 2018 00:43
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Gromit posted:I'll be interested to see how China's new self-driving buses pan out. There's no way the self driving buses will be actually worse than current chinese bus drivers, right? 
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Even in Taiwan, the kitchens in modern apartments were fairly lovely. They just don't really put any emphasis on space or appliances. And why would you bake at home when you can get a sugary, sausage filled mess covered in mayonnaise at the local super market? Bajaj posted:Your second question is that it only recently became a place for families and tourists. It's also worth noting that prostitution and compensated dating have been a deeply ingrained part of Thai culture for centuries, to the point that Chinese traders would comment on it in their letters and journals.
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