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"PAVLOU? THAT IS A NAME FROM THE THALASSONIKIAN PENINSULA. YOU ARE NOT WHITE.

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old soviet joke:

Dr. Chen (Owner of 陈博士 Herbal Tea Drinks) and Todd Chodewick (Owner of ColoRado Iced Tea) met at a trade fair.

Todd said, "Dr. Chen. man, we are totes different. While I come from a humble surfing class background, you are from the privileged TCM professional class."

Dr. Chen replied, "Yes, but we are also similar, in that we are both class traitors."

Bingfeng and Beibingyang taste like cheap orange soda, which is a comfortable childhood taste. i always get Bingfeng at Xi'an noodle shops across the country if available, or Hansi pineapple if not.

my favourite regional soda is Asia brand sarsaparilla from Guangzhou. embrace regional old brand tradition, reject multinational corporate soda modernity

edit, my spelling was all over the palce

Isn't this the country where the right-wing populists are called the "people's party" and the right wing neoliberal ghouls are called the "left party"?

isn't this the country where the biggest protests are pig farmers blocking roads to protest schools serving meatless monday meals or something? where fur factory farming is still legal?

isn't this the country that managed to outdo the french at making racist islamophobic cartoons?

what's the deal with middle china not having any insulation or indoor heating (except for tiny space heaters)?

at least in the north they keep the inside of buildings warm and they have those cool looking thick curtains at the entrances of buildings.

at least in the south it doesn't really get cold.

but everything between is still freezing in the winter and people wear outdoor clothes and hand warmers inside the house and keep the windows open because air circulation is healthy

i guess this is why they have 60 old phones with the screen on full brightness, the heat must be comforting

this works great, better than nutrizhional yeest imo

it probably doesn’t taste remotely the same

oh so you didn't even try

paneer doesn't have a strong taste, and the texture is similar to firm tofu. marinate your tofu with some lemon juice and fry it in vegan butter, drop it into your palak and it's just like your tit juice tofu. but better, because it's beans.

this is what happens to regular people in the Culture universe, it's pretty much there in the books

i often get stinky tofu from 素食 places and i'd suppose they as well as non-veg vendors source it from the same place.

i'm not very familiar with zhejiang-style, and while i've eaten kilos of changsha-style, most of it has been the cheapest type of street food, mass produced, and i can't imagine they would use expensive ingredients like meat just to marinate a 6-kuai street food (or ever stranger, milk, liquid milk being a specialty drink you have to go to like a walmart to buy)

though when i visited changsha, the stinky tofu they served there sometimes was topped with mince. wtf.

guizhou/yunnan types on the other hand seem like descended from 毛豆腐 rather than something fermented in some animalesque brine. they're wet/sticky on the inside (before cooking) and seem to be just fermented tofu, not soaked/marinated.

taiwanese style is mostly vegan, but sometimes they make a disgusting soup out of intestines and stinky tofu, which is actually properly stinky because it smells like literal shit, while the tofu itself normally is just a bit cheesy

regards, a tofu enjoyer

what kind of stinky tofu are you talking about? the changsha black style? because most other types aren't marinated in some sticky goop before, it's just fermented tofu, and when you buy it fresh it's just regular blocks of tofu, only stinky.

lol no. it's often sold by vegan vendors