Chinathread: Look at this pig'zhuge balls!

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mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Magna Kaser posted:

i learned from urumqi chef landlord.

you need:

1. fatty mutton. fat is a must.
2. onions
3. garlic
4. cumin
5. carrots
6. raisins (this is more authentic but i dont like it)
7. rice
8. more spices and junk ill forget until they're needed

do things:

1. need to RINSE THE RICE
2. once you do this soak the rice for at least like half an hour before cooking.
3. chop up lamb into pieces. keep any bones/etc and trim off a good amount of fat. keep the fat and put it to the side
4. boil some water with some scallions and slices of ginger, throw in the lamb (NOT THE FAT) and any bones and blanch for like 5 minutes
5. take the lamb out and keep a bunch of the liquid. you will use this as the rice cooking water.
6. slice up onions + some garlic
7. start rendering the fat you saved in a pan, throw in the onions and garlic and fry the poo poo out of them over low-ish heat for a while.
8. once they cooked turn up the heat and add the lamb pieces just to sear the outside. you can skip or add the bones with the rice if you had any.
9. add a ton of cumin, pepper, some salt, maybe some soy sauce and whatever else you want at this point for seasoning. i think cumin is the only rule. i added a bay leaf last time. it was annoying to find when i was done.
10. once you mix it all up add in like 450~ ml or so of the lamb water we made earllier. let everything simmer for like 15 minutes or so.
11. add in the carrots and raisins if you want, and then the rice. you want the rice to sit atop all the other stuff in one layer. you also want about as much liquid so that its even with the top of the rice. you may need to add more, you can just add water if you dont have lamb water any more.
12. peel the outer papery layer off a bulb of garlic and place it on top of the rice. also poke a couple holes in the rice layer with chopsticks or something.
13. cover and simmer till the rice is done.
14. open it up, remove the garlic and mix it all up.
15. very important: **do NOT RINSE THE RICE**

the garlic will have become v soft in the cooking process and you can open up each clove and use it as a spread.

also after step 10 you can move to a rice cooker/pressure cooker/instant pot (if you have a sautee function on it you can do everything there!!!) and it will also work.

Very cool, plov is all over central and eastern Asia and always a bit different. Here's my grandfather making Uzbek version:

https://i.imgur.com/Z7OsQJN.mp4

I don't have an exact recipe on hand but, stir fry the mutton, add onions and then other vegetables and sautee for a bit. Add rinsed rice and water to cover, reduce heat and wait until cooked. Fine tuning definitely takes a lot of trial and error thought.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2020 10:36

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 04:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

yaffle posted:

Unless there is an extremely subtle joke I'm missing about Uzbeks all moving to central Germany I think you posted the wrong picture.

Not a joke I just reused the same project to cut this clip as the Autobahn thread one and hosed up the cut. It's just a frame or two of the time lapse though so :effort:

# ¿ Jul 31, 2020 11:12

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Magna Kaser posted:

whats that bread

whats in the little tiny pot that appears next to the big pot towards the end

Don't remember, could've been some sort of pie. The little pot is a cezve for making Turkish coffee:

Yeah that's using sunflower oil too usually
Vvv

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Jul 31, 2020

# ¿ Jul 31, 2020 11:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

I once cooked orzo in my rice cooker and it turned out pretty darn okay. Just needed to fluff it. I've also tried alphabet pasta in there, that turned into a sticky mess but I definitely got the water level wrong.

I have one of those old lovely rice cookers with a magnetic switch, a single metal bowl and glass lid and no fancy presets or anything just an on off switch. Been using it for over a decade. Done rice mixed with meat, rice cooked in broth, rice cooked in fatty broth, rice cooked with fatty mince, etc.

But what you really want is a good claypot so you can make yourself some claypot rice in the winter. Don't feel the need to stick to the usual mushroom and chicken / Chinese sausage mix, try it with anything. You can do it over any old burner just fine.

I have a similar basic rice cooker and once you nail down the water/rice ratio it delivers very consistent results with no fuss. I really don't know if the fancy once could do something more for me.

Since we're talking about food, any Taiwanese goons here? I've been trying to replicate the beef noodle soup I've eaten there but not getting very close. This one was the last I tried: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/01/taiwan-eats-taiwanese-beef-noodle-soup-recipe.html

Besides not getting exactly the right flavor, the noodles were all wrong too. I just can't find anything in Europe with the same texture that all the Taiwanese ones seem to have. Any ideas?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2020 17:25

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

My Samsung Note9 was made in Vietnam before it was cool. I'd guess the major components are more likely to be from Korea too.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 20:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Zakrello posted:

forwarded from reddit/pincong.

diplomats don't just please their assignments, nor did anyone need to.

can't read Czech so no way to verify the correctness of translations. is anyone able to do that here?

The translation is obviously pretty lovely but vaguely accurate. It's written in a very casual, non diplomat-speak manner. I doubt the actual document is legit, but if it is the mayor of a city district doesn't have much of a role in foreign policy anyway.

The background btw is that a senator went to Taiwan with a delegation of politicians, scientists, culture and business people and China got mad for hurting the feelings of 1.4 billion people. So that's a (fake?) reaction to their reaction.
https://translate.google.com/transl..._zahranicni_aug

# ¿ Sep 1, 2020 08:16

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

GoutPatrol posted:

kaoliang still sucks and whenever I see people drinking it, they look sad

I brought a bottle from Taiwan and it's still unopened. Because I'd have to be drinking it alone and it would make me sad too.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2021 10:20

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

The North Tower posted:

I�m going to Taiwan! What should I see? I have like 4 days.

Will you be in Taipei? I'd check out Tamsui district, Taipei 101, some night markets, Guandhua digital plaza if you're into nerd poo poo, the zoo is good too. Nearby also the Xiaoyoukeng Recreation Area and a bit further the Taroko park but it's worth the trip.

# ¿ May 24, 2021 11:47

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Stink Billyums posted:

the race where one in eight died is only "one of the deadliest running events"?

Have you seen the Running Man?

# ¿ May 25, 2021 10:13

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

What "evidence" would you expect to see? Until the pandemic completely overwhelms the hospitals, there isn't much an average person would notice because people aren't just dropping dead in the streets.

I was literally in one of the worst hit countries in the world for a while but nothing looked different unless you worked in a hospital. According to the data, around a dozen people died yesterday. If it was 250 like at the peak, how could I possibly tell unless someone released the real number.
That is not to say that china is now actually worse than India and there's a massive coverup of course.

# ¿ May 25, 2021 15:42

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

bones 4 beginners posted:

Posting for the duck page

They should probably keep it down about the revolutionary stuff

# ¿ Feb 22, 2022 15:55

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Hey China goons, is there a way to use WeChat without the app? I just need to contact an ecommerce seller once and would rather not go through all the bs of installing and activating it with a number etc.

# ¿ May 26, 2022 12:56

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Grand Fromage posted:

China's just weird because on a grand scale it's a totalitarian nightmare with laws for everything and a central government that would love to control everyone's life at a micro scale. If you make the mistake of doing anything that attracts Sauron's eye to you, you are profoundly hosed. But in your day to day experience living there it's a ultra-libertarian anarchy where even the most common sense behavior rules like "don't drive through a red light directly in front of a big red dump truck going 150 km/hr" don't exist, everything is random and the only social value is money.

I think part of why the subway security theater is so infuriating, beyond its pointlessness, is it's the most visible way the government fucks with you on a daily basis and interrupts your surf through the chaos.

I think it feels this way in most totalitarian countries. A few years ago I was visiting some friends in Uzbekistan and as hellish as the regime is, on day to day basis if you don't get in the way, it all feels perfectly fine and you can bribe your way with traffic cops with a few bucks, or wink at a juice vendor to get a black market exchange rate for your USD. And yeah they also have the security theater in subways and railway stations.

# ¿ May 27, 2022 17:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

poo poo's hosed in the Good China again it seems

https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1571400090891452418?t=Pvc_u_lPkPwQhCY5nNKISg&s=19

I think this is at least a second time since I've been there like 4 years ago

# ¿ Sep 18, 2022 16:05

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

GoutPatrol posted:

There were 3 large earthquakes and several aftershocks over the weekend, let's hope that there are no more.

The latest news is around 8 hours old so I don't know what's happening but looks like it was pretty serious stuff

https://i.imgur.com/uLIIaWl.mp4

# ¿ Sep 19, 2022 08:50

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

my homie dhall posted:

a wet market is basically a farmers market lol

Yes exactly they're bad

# ¿ Sep 30, 2022 12:20

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

The junk collector posted:

Until the secret police finish confirming their allegiance they will be counted in both camps.

Please don't say camps that has negative connotations

# ¿ Oct 2, 2022 20:00

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Kharnifex posted:

RIP Hong Kong, I visited you before you died, I better hurry the gently caress up and get to Taiwan before it dies too.

Taiwan owns, definitely go check it out.

Thankfully I don't think they're in the same boat as HK at all so I wouldn't worry too much for the foreseeable future.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2022 12:03

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Forceholy posted:

Could this be a possible false flag?

That doesn't look like a flag at all

# ¿ Oct 13, 2022 12:00

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

There's an India/Pakistan thread in D&D. We were just talking about the Modi camps recently.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2022 00:20

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

McGavin posted:

Sad that we will never see anything like this ever again.

Or this
https://twitter.com/TimesSqKungFu/status/1512856871748743179

or this
https://twitter.com/hkfilmnet/status/1339780336650231808

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 00:35

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

^^^
Yes please

PITY BONER posted:

If you don't mind slumming it, most, or maybe even all the popular HK films can found on free pirate streaming sites (and some on archive.org, including The Ghost Snatchers). Video quality is going to be hit or miss, but some of the category 3 video streaming sites will have quality at least as good at the original VHS can offer.

Coincidentally, the "Sex and Zen & a bullet in the head" book is also available to borrow from archie.org: https://archive.org/details/sexzenbulletinhe00hamm/page/n3/mode/2up

Interestingly though, not in other usual places though.

I did see "Hong Kong Neo Noir" as well which is a newer and obviously differently focused book. Haven't read it: https://www.amazon.com/Hong-Neo-Noir-Edinburgh-Studies-Asian-ebook/dp/B07CN83N65

Marshal Prolapse posted:

It is barely scratching the surfaces

Yeah. Even of that particular film.

The Hong Kong Film Net twitter is fantastic btw. This was retweeted by them and yeah I've seen the movie (Tiger on the beat)

https://twitter.com/HeadExposure/status/1570111744642531337

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Oct 25, 2022

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 08:34

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

It's actually pretty easy. If workers don't own the means of production, it's not socialism.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2022 21:47

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

It's about justifying repression and authoritarian crackdowns under the pretense that it's necessary for socialism.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2022 10:03

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Mr. Sunshine posted:

"Tankie" seems like a perfectly sensible way to describe people who defend imperialism as long as the imperialists have a red flag, given the origin of the word.

Yeah it has a pretty clear origin and specific applications. Of course it can get misused because there's no language police but it's a useful term that also tends to trigger a lot of assholes

"Public housing is good" => not tankie
"Workers should benefit from the surplus of their labor" => not tankie
"CCP should've crushed the CIA student protesters in HK much harder" => tankie

# ¿ Oct 27, 2022 11:20

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Strategic Tea posted:

But then you have to admit that there's a problem festering on the left, rather than:

- Well I've never met anyone like that
- There's no proof Comrade Zizek was ever left wing anyway
- No True Leftist would support oppression qed

I don't know if it's even a left problem or more a contrarian authoritarian bootlicker problem. China sure as hell isn't actually communist after all, and I don't want to drag too much other drama here, but it's apparently also an opinion that a certain country should be purged of the influence of nato and its associated bourgeois interests. By another noted worker's paradise. So :shrug:

Is Zizek a tankie? I don't follow him or anything but he seemed ok.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2022 00:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Herstory Begins Now posted:

Zizek came out like 6 months ago with a statement along the lines of 'there's no possible interpretation of marxism that supports what Russia is doing in Ukraine, leftists should be against it totally' and it went over exactly as you would expect.

which is to say:

E: tried to find it because I hate paraphrasing but 15 seconds of googling didn't turn it up, so have another comment from him on the subject 'Take Putin and his pack, who are in no way left-wing, but rather authoritarian conservative capitalists with fascist tendencies. It�s sad when someone pretending to be left is trying to �understand� Russia because what Putin does is a prime example of Russian fascism. His ideology is built on the fascist views of Ivan Ilyin and all those Dugins. There is nothing to be read between the lines here.'

full disclosure I know very little about zizek, I just saw all the meltdowns after he made statements opposing Russia's invasion

Strategic Tea posted:

Yeah now I feel bad, I just wanted to pick a recognisable name but actually my post reads like a hit on the guy

Yeah no worries, not like I'm a fanboy or anything. I was just confused if I missed something about him:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/21/pacificsm-is-the-wrong-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine

# ¿ Oct 28, 2022 10:31

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

This article says 146 dead, hoooly poo poo

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/29/asia/south-korea-halloween-cardiac-arrest-intl/index.html

Some pretty :nms:

poo poo visible here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYHYWlMjW0

# ¿ Oct 29, 2022 20:36

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

VSOKUL girl posted:

it's about the size of california and similarly mostly population centers along the coast alongside a whole lotta nothing aside from crazy woods people. maybe the latter's more of a california thing, we get that in exchange for not thinking we're small

It's also the same area as Germany (helpful comparison for me as a dirty euro). Higher population, but not by a crazy margin. There's a cool map that was posted in D&D that I think helps understand it much better, because you can clearly see metropolitan vs rural areas as they don't get bunched up into whatever statistical areas the country has.

I couldn't find the same for Japan but this one is pretty cool

Grand Fromage posted:

Yep. Most things in China are local or, at best, province level decisions. The central government makes a decree like COVID Must Be Contained At All Costs and it's left up to local officials to carry it out. Which is part of why everything is so wildly inconsistent in China. Like even the great firewall is, from what I understand, a province-level thing so a VPN blocked in Sichuan may work in Guangxi or whatever.

This is why you talk to two people living in different parts of China and they have such divergent experiences. One person in a weird 1984 nightmare and the other says everything is fine and normal. That guy may be a party bootlicker but also may be telling the truth, it might be completely fine where he is.

Souds like russia too. Regions are told to implement centrally-decided poo poo, when they inevitably gently caress up, Putin gets to ride in and save the day by screaming at the local officials. Nothing is his fault of course.

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Nov 7, 2022

# ¿ Nov 7, 2022 09:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

ili posted:

It's also far better than korea (source: I've been to korea).

That's because you're not considering Best Korea

# ¿ Nov 7, 2022 10:40

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Shumagorath posted:

US to start requiring negative covid tests for travellers incoming from China per BBC. Apart from the usual Hurt Feelings, according to several posts in this thread the testing apparatus has largely packed up and gone home�?

Hopefully they require rectal swabs for entry

# ¿ Dec 29, 2022 14:11

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

NoiseAnnoys posted:

probably shouldn't have killed all those pesky traditional chinese martial artists during the great leap forward.

They should send Jackie Chan

# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 18:02

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Does anyone know if there a way to use taobao from abroad in peace? I had an account that got frozen and sometimes I can use it with my work HK VPN or google translate to get past the login wall but sometimes that doesn't work either. Especially when browsing a store or searching even if viewing a specific item can still work.

# ¿ May 19, 2023 09:20

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

How's China taking their dictator buddy's recent troubles?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2023 17:34

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Grand Fromage posted:

Korea's flipping their poo poo about it too but no one cares.

Fondly remembering when maps were being passed around in Korea of how most of Japan was uninhabitable nuclear wasteland, and multiple Korean friends begging me to cancel a trip to Osaka because I was going to die from radiation.

You should tell them to watch out for fans if they don't want to die

# ¿ Aug 25, 2023 21:31

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

free hubcaps posted:

Uh oh, looks like National Feelings are in danger of being hurt again!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66737272

brb ordering the patches

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 10:55

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Yeah, not Korean. Though SK do seem to have a disproportionate number of good action and thriller movies.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2023 17:43

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

How's Korea for just visiting as just a tourist for a few weeks? I've been looking for a good time to do a combined trip with Japan (since it's a long / expensive flight) for a while. Never noticed any hostility to a whitey in Taiwan, HK, Macau or Shanghai but no idea about Korea now.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2023 14:11

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Grand Fromage posted:

I think I've gotten over it, but I moved to Korea one week before the Tohoku earthquake and seeing so much gleeful celebration of the deaths of tens of thousands of people just for the crime of being Japanese was not a great first impression to have of the country.

It's fine, you'll have a good time. I'd suggest going to Korea first because Japan is a lot cheaper and after two months in Japan, I went to Korea and was just boiling every time I had to pay for anything. Also suggest not just staying in Seoul, there's a lot more to the country than that.

Also do a lot of hotel research. I've never gotten owned by lovely ones as often anywhere else in the world. If you can, the Japanese business hotel chains like Toyoko Inn are safe bets.

If you drink Korea is the easiest place in the world to make local friends, it's like the country equivalent of freshman year at college. In more ways than one.

Wait Korea is more expensive than Japan? Fuuuk.

Well anyway, thanks, good to hear that it's actually fine. I haven't done any real research yet but definitely was planning on traveling around the country a bit.

I don't really drink at home but on vacation that's another matter :getin:

McGavin posted:

Oh god, it's so much worse:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1701268584138264620#m

Yeah saw this before, definitely not going to the mainland anytime soon or I'd get immediately arrested for punching some vatniks.

MarcusSA posted:

They are like the people that hand out samples at costco.

Maybe if they were at Samsung or Hyundai it wouldn't be so bad

# ¿ Sep 12, 2023 00:24

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 04:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

MarcusSA posted:

Yeah not really a thing. This guy is just a moron who forgot he had it. Very very very few Americans will actually travel with a gun but you are allowed to travel with a firearm in your checked luggage

Also lol at TSA missing yet another gun. They have / had something like an 80% failure rate a while ago.

It's still mind-blowing because people outside the US don't just "forget they have a gun" because a) they don't have a gun or b) if they do, they don't just keep it in ther checked luggage, ever.

Also here's an article on the incident as posted in the trump thread. It's even better because he got into a fight with some reporters lol.

The Last Call posted:

US Republican Senator Jeff Wilson arrested over carrying gun into Hong Kong, barred from leaving city

Jeff Wilson, a Washington state Republican senator, reportedly called the police on journalists who photographed him as he walked out of the courthouse on Monday.

https://hongkongfp.com/2023/10/24/us-republican-senator-jeff-wilson-arrested-over-carrying-gun-into-hong-kong-barred-from-leaving-city/

Jeff Wilson, a Republican senator from Washington state, appeared at Shatin Magistrates� Courts on Monday following his Saturday arrest. He was released on a cash bail of HK$20,000 and ordered to hand over his travel documents and not to leave Hong Kong, local media reported.

Sing Tao Daily reported that Wilson, as well as his wife and two men who were with him, got into an altercation with reporters who took photos of him as he was leaving the courthouse. The police were called, with Wilson�s group demanding reporters delete the photos saying Wilson had not consented to being photographed.

Police arrived on the scene to mediate, as Wilson and his wife threatened to photograph the reporters in retaliation.

Wilson is scheduled to appear at West Kowloon Magistrates� Courts next Monday.

Carrying arms without a license is punishable by up to 14 years in jail and a fine of HK$100,000, but cases heard at magistrates courts see a maximum jail term of two years for a single offence.

Under the US Transportation Security Administration�s restrictions, firearms cannot be taken in carry-on bags on international or domestic flights. They can be checked in, but the carrier must ensure they are packed in a container and declared to the airline while checking in.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2023 20:59

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