(Chinese names transliterated this way look so stupid)
uo tsao!
Krem
joined 5 years ago
as much as i hate everyone involved, as well as ritualized slaughter, all in the name of settler bullshit, i almost respect the grift of scamming research money from dumb foundations at bad universities, and this looks like ten seconds well spent on a phone's calculator app. 660 billion exactly, or 666.666 billion?
kunming is a popular retirement spot because it's never hot or very cold. i didn't even know it could get to 27, i remember it was like 23 in the summer.
second best food in china probably, but the competition is tough. do you like vietnamese food? lao food? sichuan food? do you like fermented pickles, sauerkraut, hot sauces, herbs like mint and culantro?
mixian (rice noodles):
- daiwei (dai ethnicity style) mixian from the south is a bit like vietnamese pho. herby, tangy, brothy. thin noodles, lemon juice and pickles and fermented bean products.
- douhua mixian is a kunming dish with thicker noods. no soup, instead a miso-like spicy sauce and peanuts, and most importantly a ton of soft tofu (douhua)
- chou doufu mixian is mixian with stinky tofu. good + good = very good
- xiaoguo mixian is the regular kunming soupy mixian in a rich spicy broth
wandoufen (yellow pea jelly):
- wandou liangfen is cold pea jelly with a spicy sweet and sour marinade.
- zha doufen is deep fried pea jelly cubes with a dipping sauce.
- xi doufen is pea jelly that hasn't solidified yet, eaten like a porridge. dehong specialty.
erkuai (sticky rice blocks?) similar to korean rice cake or east chinese niangao
- chao erkuai (just stir fried pieces of same), like a less saucy tteokboki
- ersi are thin strips of erkuai used as noodles
- shao erkuai is a round flat piece of erkuai toasted and made into a little taco with funky sauces, pickles, youtiao
The fungal diversity seems so fascinating
The mushroom market in Kunming is great. Expensive, didn't buy anything, but really cool. Around the city there are PSA billboards warning people against poisonous shrooms and to properly cook your edibles. Went to a vegan place that had great shroom dishes.
see the ecological contrasts
So many diverse regions. South/southwest is similar to laos and myanmar. north/northwest is part of the tibetan highland. east is similar to guizhou. northeast is similar to eastern sichuan i guess, haven't been up there.
socialist-capitalist
sweden is a regular euro liberal country that still has a reputation of being a good socdem country because during the Palme years 40-50 years ago it was better than most euro countries, and somehow it's still riding high on that reputation. since the 90s the whole social welfare system has been dismantled, public utilities have been privatized, and now it's just another laughable euro country ruled by unholy coalitions of neoliberals, populists and blairites.
if you want to see a "socialist-capitalist" country, there are a couple of socialist countries in east asia that implemented some market reforms in the 80s/90s to build up productive forces while still having a socialist control of the economy. they seem to be doing okay.
who else is a 五毛党员 i got my xibucks in my alipay this morning
sweet potato flavoured tomato juice:
YAMATO
When you're a level 10 Man, and have points in Banter, and also located at least one Legendary Pub, you can take the Geezer class.
An advanced level Man with the Out of Touch trait and points in Anger can become a Cloud Yeller.
If the soviets hadn't resisted, a lot of lives...
oh...
oh, more people would have died?
like, almost everyone?
oh I see.
He was a handsome boy on the subway. She was sitting across from him. He had spiky hair. She didn't have a nose. They were transitory, unreal in their realness, MSpaint mouse-drawn lineart. She smiled towards him and he had to look away. Because she was not like other girls? Because she was still a virgin at her age? He couldn't face her. He didn't even go to clubs. FTGA.
But it was all a fantasy. The wall was too high, as you can see. And he had brainworms. She said see you later boy. But I don't want to make it anymore ovbious.
It makes sense. Zeb knows Bombo. Bombo visited Uyun Poot's Saloon in Legends: Star War X Wing Borb Season 3 Episode 12. (Pause at the 23 minute 11 seconds mark). Guess Who else visited that Saloon? None other than Hupple Swett (in the tie-in novel Admiral Poot and the Gyngul Assault). Yes, THAT Hupple Swett. Remember in Blue Elephant: The Jizz Guy: A Star Wars Story on Disney+, where Sorlac goes to the Qung Moon Station? Who does she fight at the end? Exactly, Ooogon Fetid (the disciple of Hupple Swett in case you're a cueless dweeb). And who had a skippable laser sword fight with Ooogon Fetid in the PS4 game Masters of Thbu Vobb? Dinkle Heinous.
So it makes perfect sense that Zeb shows up in the Bambolorian and Donk Movie