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AlbertFlasher posted:We are shipping some product to Shenzhen today at work. I've never been there before. Is it nice? Seems nice. i like it
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Dijkstracula posted:I don't think I'd ever have cause to visit but this Wired piece about it always made it seem like a really unique place fun fact: i was hired to play bass in a cover band for a halloween show one of the factory owners in this video. my picture made it into the shenzhen daily newspaper, where i was playing bass while wearing a cheap ghostbusters costume
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Aug 17, 2023 16:34
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shenzhen is unironically a great city
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Aug 17, 2023 16:39
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The Management posted:last time I was there was about 15 years ago and it was a grimy and depressing place, and you couldn’t eat anywhere outside the fancy foreigner hotel because it would destroy your delicate western intestines. I imagine it’s probably improved since then even in 2008 you could have easily eaten outside your hotel and been fine. you were being told bad info
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Raluek posted:i went there for work pre-covid but it was way out in the sticks. wish i could have spent some time in actual downtown shenzhen u mean this? 
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Aug 18, 2023 08:54
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if thats the dish you mean its usually just called something like "soybeans stir fried with minced pork"
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Aug 18, 2023 08:56
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well i guess maybe you call it edamame because theyre green soybeans harvested before theyre fully ripe, which is what edamame is
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Aug 18, 2023 08:58
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echinopsis posted:I went to hong kong and I went on a boat thing you mean a boat?
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Aug 18, 2023 09:15
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i don’t remember that version
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Aug 18, 2023 10:03
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rotor posted:in china they call them “boats” but echis right. in "king kong" they call them "boat things"
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Aug 18, 2023 18:07
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Crazy Achmed posted:what's your opinion on sei gwai do? or however you are supposed to romanize it: https://thewoksoflife.com/dry-fried-string-beans-sichuan/ mandarin would be “gan bian si ji dou”
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Aug 20, 2023 01:27
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echinopsis posted:i’ve got a question that’s simply a curiosity, and I’m curious if this is a cultural thing or not easy: people in china don’t generally have dishwashers
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Aug 20, 2023 08:00
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) etc, there is quite a disparity where some people do the work and pitch in and others just ignore it completely all the time
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rotor posted:never been a big congee fan same
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Aug 20, 2023 09:02
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rotor posted:rice porridge. basically rice but if you cooked the living poo poo out of it until it got all goopy, then added good stuff to it. its literally just oatmeal but you use rice instead of oats. and its usually not sweetened, you either eat it plain or add savory stuff to it
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Aug 20, 2023 09:02
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graph posted:you can find out at Unit 210, 1 Kewen Road, Nanshan District ! that’s literally walking distance from my old office
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Aug 20, 2023 09:09
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Crazy Achmed posted:i don't get the congee hate. if the savoury oatmeal analogy is too weird for you, then it's basically risotto with a lighter texture and Chinese spices/flavour profile. like how is this weirder than chicken and waffles i dont think it’s weird i just don’t care for porridge. ill still eat that garbage if someone makes it for me tho
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Aug 20, 2023 11:48
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polyester concept posted:some people need to be told what to do. simple as that. if the dishes are getting washed already then the thought that they should chip in from time to time simply doesn’t enter their brain. your washing them wrong
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Aug 20, 2023 15:34
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Raluek posted:is this what stinky tofu is actually called no, "stinky tofu" is a direct translation it smells weird but the taste is actually pretty mild
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Aug 21, 2023 05:40
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rotor posted:stinky tofu is asian blue cheese real chinese fermentheads go for fermented bamboo shoots
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Aug 21, 2023 06:32
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echinopsis posted:I bought this insane packet of noodles (I think I already mentioned) to make and I had no idea what it was and I took it to work and the chinese girls were like woah you won’t like that and they said it’s river snail and fermented bamboo. i remember u posted the picture of the packaging in the food thread and i also told you that you wont like it. but man up and try it
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https://twitter.com/TripInChina/status/1670602205383254017
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ADINSX posted:Dang that’s loving cool https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1668245444600774659 e: this is right by my apartment
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Aug 21, 2023 15:29
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bonus thread fact: that ufo thing is within a 20 minute walking distance of graph posted:Unit 210, 1 Kewen Road, Nanshan District !
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Aug 21, 2023 15:43
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dioxazine posted:it's not a UAV if someone gets into it though.. it still is: he said a woman got into it
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Aug 21, 2023 15:51
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shitface posted:Shenzen seems like one of those places that are fun to visit for a week or two, like London or New York, but that potentially do bad things to you. I lived in London for a few years and one day found myself tutting at an old lady that was leaving the tube a bit too slowly. that was the day i resolved to leave idk ive lived in shenzhen for 13 years and i turned out fine
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Aug 21, 2023 15:57
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distortion park posted:one restaurant I went to i when dining alone had a menu - since I didn't know what any of the dishes were I ordered it, thinking it would be a "choose one from these 4 options" deal for each course (didn't really get asian meals style yet). it was actually 1 of everything on the list and i was completely swamped with food, i can still remember some of it though, like these salty and spicy chicken bits with sichuan peppers and incredible amounts of umami was it 辣子鸡 
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Aug 21, 2023 16:35
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Dijkstracula posted:visiting shenzhen sounds like a lot of fun, and I have a bunch of former colleagues who moved to shanghai to do startups inviting me to come visit whenever I want which would be great too are you a spy? if not you’ll be fine there’s lots of canadians here right now
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Aug 21, 2023 16:36
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distortion park posted:one of my previous jobs sent me to hk for two weeks, staying in a 5* hotel with a $100 dollar a day food budget. when i turned up at the hotel the deposit they asked for was bigger than my at card limit at the time, had to make an embarrassing phone call to the EA at my employer asking them to pay the hotel directly. was a lot of fun eating out every night for free at some of the best restaurants in the world when work sent me to hong kong back around the time i moved to china, the trip wa very last minute and the only hotel they could find for me was like $350 a night and when i checked in i asked the front desk if i could be moved to a cheaper room and they looked at me funny and said “sir you’re already staying in the cheapest room in the hotel”
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Aug 21, 2023 16:39
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AlbertFlasher posted:ya but they were spies so if you aren't then you should be fine his name is also michael
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Aug 21, 2023 16:42
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git apologist posted:guy eating dog poo poo with salt and pepper, mmm delicious they add all kinds of stuff to congee. vegetables, meat, seafood
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Aug 26, 2023 01:54
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rotor posted:congee is a lot goopier than risotto sounds like something i would say
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Aug 26, 2023 01:55
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just paid 256 rmb for two cocktails in a bar that had a 120 rmb per person cover charge. lol.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:40
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yeah they had a jazz combo play a bunch of louis armstrong music it was cool
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Aug 26, 2023 15:42
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that’s like $70 for two drinks lol
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:China is the type of place I’d want a month to visit everything and experience it all ime you need to live here for at least 13 years to understand any of it
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in shenzhen news, we have a typhoon hitting tomorrow
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Aug 31, 2023 17:23
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im ready coach
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:fart are you getting shat on by the rain too? HK has had a black rain warning since 11pm last night and the gov is gonna take “additional measures” at 3pm. yeah lol it’s bad. working from home today, a bunch of roads and subway stations are flooded
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water never hurt anyone
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