The Food Thread
I too had pork belly last night
Yes it’s a south china dish. Really recommend trying it if you see it but unfortunately most Chinese restaurants tend to be Cantonese which I find a little bland.
I'm in NYC so I can find most any variation of Chinese food. I'll look for it next time I'm in a Chinese restaurant that might have it.
Given your food preferences, I'm guessing that you and Crossnerd are familiar with Dianxi Xiaoge's videos.
Pure Yunnanese comfort food.
I'm in NYC so I can find most any variation of Chinese food. I'll look for it next time I'm in a Chinese restaurant that might have it. Given your food preferences, I'm guessing that you and Crossnerd are familiar with Dianxi Xiaoge's videos.Pure Yunnanese comfort food.
nyc has a lot of malatang, this one is the closest to your house https://maps.app.goo.gl/WGxCdh8YVdEHitcq...
but this one is my fave if you go a little further https://maps.app.goo.gl/cJsEEG7R2GmQLkzE...
They were the smaller ones though out of the shell and served in heaps on buttery garlic toast, so I could eat 20-40 snails in a single sitting.. Like 4-5 per crostini
It was tremendous, just piles of snails in a bowl of butter… mmmmm
And I’d do this like twice a week
And there were sooo many food restrictions during pregnancy… no soft cheese, no raw fish, blablabla But piles of snails was totally cool
Did you know snails are one of the most deadly animals on the planet? They kill hundreds of thousands of people every year
nyc has a lot of malatang, this one is the closest to your house https://maps.app.goo.gl/WGxCdh8YVdEHitcq...
but this one is my fave if you go a little further https://maps.app.goo.gl/cJsEEG7R2GmQLkzE...
You didn't do the d2 joke correctly.
The second place isn't too far from my apt.
oh no that was a genuine thing, my bro lives on 88th and figured you were in the general vicinity
you should definitely go to the 2nd place then - do not wear fancy clothes - malatang has a very high splash quotient
if you're unfamiliar, it basically looks like a salad bar and you pick and choose whatever ingredients you like and then bring it to the counter - they weigh it and cook it in a broth - ask for "wei la" (sounds like way la) which is chinese for "mildly spicy" which is how it's usually done because i fear they'll put things on an american scale and give zero spice if you use english
i generally go with some quail eggs, leafy vegetables, tofu, a couple wide rice noodles and some of those sweet sausages (i think they improve the broth)
you should definitely go to the 2nd place then - do not wear fancy clothes - malatang has a very high splash quotientif you're unfamiliar, it basically looks like a salad bar and you pick and choose whatever ingredients you like and then bring it to the counter - they weigh it and cook it in a broth - ask for "wei la" (sounds like way la) which is chinese for "mildly spicy" whi
No worries. I would never wear fancy clothes to a malatang place.
I ordered the pork belly at a BBQ place tonight. Was good.
Has anyone (maybe rick?) ever had something that resembled a fish ball with a creamy, almost custard-like interior? What is it? I'm guessing some form of roe.
It was one of the options i just selected randomly at a malatang stand in a night market in Asia if that helps.
Sweetbread is ****ing terrible
Enjoyed crickets
Has anyone (maybe rick?) ever had something that resembled a fish ball with a creamy, almost custard-like interior? What is it? I'm guessing some form of roe.
It was one of the options i just selected randomly at a malatang stand in a night market in Asia if that helps.
i've had these but am not super familiar with them because the common variants are either a liquid center or just the same consistency throughout and the balls are far more popular in the south where i spent much less time
i really enjoyed the "piss balls" which were the ones with a liquid center
crab roe is a pretty common filling ingredient, i'm thinking it was possibly that - or if it were really sweet it was possibly red bean
i've had these but am not super familiar with them because the common variants are either a liquid center or just the same consistency throughout and the balls are far more popular in the south where i spent much less timei really enjoyed the "piss balls" which were the ones with a liquid centercrab roe is a pretty common filling ingredient, i'm thinking it was possibly that -
It definitely wasn't red bean. I would have recognized the taste. Crab roe is a good guess. Most fish balls I've had are the same consistency throughout. This was in Laos, not China, but I don't think that matters seeing as it was a malatang stand.
Conservatives are dominated by fear. Maybe the most reliable way to spot a conservative, in a place like nYC for example where they all pretend to be liberals, is their fear of foreign languages. They think that people speaking in a foreign language might be plotting against them.
When I pondered a man open carrying a long gun in a coffee shop many years ago I realized conservatives are just walking around terrified. They project the opposite, of course. But the more body armor and tactical gear I see a person draping all over themselves entirely unnecessarily so, the more I am sure there is a fearful little kitten underneath it all.
That's ultimately why they are so wealth obsessed - they have a primal fear of running out of supplies. Even Jeff Bezos, for all his billions upon billions, walks around worried that he will be broke and hungry one day. It's hard to believe when you're not so afflicted with fear, but this is a truth which changes how you look at the social world and will illuminate it once you test it via observation.
Conservatives are dominated by fear. Maybe the most reliable way to spot a conservative, in a place like nYC for example where they all pretend to be liberals, is their fear of foreign languages. They think that people speaking in a foreign language might be plotting against them.
I certainly agree that conservatives are fearful.
I don't know where in NYC you encountered people who are fearful of people speaking in foreign languages. It would be a terrible place to live if that is what you are afraid of because you are going to hear people speaking a language other than English very, very often.
I certainly agree that conservatives are fearful.
I don't know where in NYC you encountered people who are fearful of people speaking in foreign languages. It would be a terrible place to live if that is what you are afraid of because you are going to hear people speaking a language other than English very, very often.
Overall I think conservatives and liberals are roughly equally fearful; they just are often fearful of different things.
For example, liberals seemed far more fearful of Covid than conservatives and as a result were far more likely to favor lockdowns than conservatives.
And conservatives were far more likely than liberals to be fearful of the Covid vaccines.
Overall I think conservatives and liberals are roughly equally fearful; they just are often fearful of different things.
For example, liberals seemed far more fearful of Covid than conservatives and as a result were far more likely to favor lockdowns than conservatives.
And conservatives were far more likely than liberals to be fearful of the Covid vaccines.
Well let me back up. When I said fear concerning conservatives I mean irrational fear. It is good and rational to fear the covid virus. I mean, you can't fault people for being afraid of polar bears, for example. It's not rational to fear a vaccine...usually.
I think there is a bit of a U shaped curve when it comes to fearing the vaccines. You had a lot of dumb or paranoid people thinking the government was implementing phase 1 of globo **** via some drug designed make everyone gay or to kill off the surplus population etc. Then you had the average IQ person thinking ok there seems to be a consensus by the experts saying this is a safe measure to lesson the chance of death when contracting covid so I'm going to do as I'm told. Then there were the smarter people who didn't think the government was trying to kill them off or sterilize them, but also understand what good science is and what it isn't and that indications were the vaccine was not good science despite what the experts were saying on TV. An intelligent person would ask why are we using this novel delivery method which has never been tried before at this critical moment. An intelligent person would ask why the trial data isn't being released. An intelligent person would ask why are there so many contradictions concerning the efficacy of the vaccines.
Conservatives ended up being partially correct about the covid vaccine, but by accident not by valid reasoning.
There was/is some interesting research being done on the neurological differences between conservatives and liberals. I predict that it will be shut down at some point if it hasn't already. It's too revealing. It explains so much of politics in the West and I think this line of research will eventually be seen as too potentially destabilizing. The person carrying the long gun in Starbucks has different neurology than you, and it is different in the same way as many others, and it's also why they differ with you on a cluster of seemingly unrelated issues. This isn't something we are set up to be able to digest at the moment, but it is a truth that is slowly emerging from our body politic like the alien in Alien.
Overall I think conservatives and liberals are roughly equally fearful; they just are often fearful of different things.
For example, liberals seemed far more fearful of Covid than conservatives and as a result were far more likely to favor lockdowns than conservatives.
And conservatives were far more likely than liberals to be fearful of the Covid vaccines.
Ok. I'm still curious when you encountered all these people in NYC who are fearful of people who speak a foreign language.
Ok. I'm still curious when you encountered all these people in NYC who are fearful of people who speak a foreign language.
If I can comment...conservatives don't know that their repulsion to foreign languages is a tell. It's not quite a politically incorrect opinion in and of itself. It comes up in NYC precisely because there are so many languages being spoken and, being the money capital of the world, is full of conservatives. It's one of those things that once you are aware of it you see it more.
If I can comment...conservatives don't know that their repulsion to foreign languages is a tell. It's not quite a politically incorrect opinion in and of itself. It comes up in NYC precisely because there are so many languages being spoken and, being the money capital of the world, is full of conservatives. It's one of those things that once you are aware of it you see it more.
You still aren't answering my question. Have you encountered many people from NYC who you observed to have a repulsion to foreign languages? If so, how did you meet them and how did they express their repulsion to foreign languages?
Ok. I'm still curious when you encountered all these people in NYC who are fearful of people who speak a foreign language.
Just so the dear reader understands: Rococo's question here is for Deuces, not me, since I've never said that folks are fearful of other people speaking foreign languages.
Oof. Sorry lagtight. I replied to the wrong post. You are correct.
I don't think DM has ever given a direct response to a direct question in his entire 14 year career of posting on this forum. He will happily spend his time writing a 1,000 word essay that doesn't directly address it, though.
Some might say that he is a disingenuous, obnoxious ******* who thinks he is smarter than everyone else when he really isn't. Not me, of course, but some might.
You still aren't answering my question. Have you encountered many people from NYC who you observed to have a repulsion to foreign languages? If so, how did you meet them and how did they express their repulsion to foreign languages?
From NYC? Not so sure, but in NYC yeah I've encountered quite a few people who have made passing, disapproving comments about foreign languages being spoken around them or in certain places.
I've been going to NYC quite often over the years to visit friends and family. So I've met a lot of their friends and associates and I've heard them and people in public places in NYC complain about foreign languages. There is a lot of anti migrant sentiment floating around after the city hosted them in some hotels recently. Someone said they should at least learn English as a requirement to get in the country. Someone said how am I supposed to order anything here with nobody speaking English (the staff spoke broken English apparently not fluently enough for this individual). I heard someone I didn't know mock an Asian person in an Asian accent, telling them to speak English. New Yorkers are very direct people who like to complain. Do you really doubt that this happens? In this forum you can find instances of people complaining about foreign languages being spoken in this country. I think you are not that way and perhaps cannot imagine that other people are.
On the other side of the spectrum, a non fear-based friend of mine, a white American guy, will always try to impress a cab or Uber driver by guessing what language they speak given what country they are from. He has a general positive interest in foreign languages and is Leftist across the board. I think it is hard to find a bad person who also has an affinity for foreign languages (not saying there aren't exceptions but generally speaking). How people feel about foreign languages says a lot about them.
I don't think DM has ever given a direct response to a direct question in his entire 14 year career of posting on this forum. He will happily spend his time writing a 1,000 word essay that doesn't directly address it, though.Some might say that he is a disingenuous, obnoxious ******* who thinks he is smarter than everyone else when he really isn't. Not me, of course, but some m
A number of people accuse me of arrogance and thinking I'm smarter than others. But it's not that I think I am smarter. It's just that I'm pretty sure I'm more objective. One of the smartest people I know, a college buddy who climbed all the way from quant to a VP before 40, who was 10 points shy of a perfect SAT score (and who got me into politics as a freshman in college) really thinks Russia wants to invade Poland. He takes in the news from standard sources and this makes sense to him. It's one of the dumbest ideas going right now which is held by a great number of people and he believes it totally. I'm certainly not smarter than him. But I will always understand more than him and make better predictions than him by way of humility and objectivity, by not hanging onto things I want to be true but instead following validity to truth and admitting I am wrong when that's the case. IQ is overrated in my estimation.
Deuces, I hate to break it to you, but neither humility nor objectivity are your "thang", you arrogant conspiracy nutjob.
