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ulmont posted:I have questions. i don't. lots of them abound.
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BrainDance posted:Speaking of cows wasn't there something a few years ago where a bunch of republican reps repealed health regulations on milk, celebrated it by drinking raw milk at the press conference and then they all got incredibly sick? back on topic, what's the difference between scallion pancakes and the taiwanese savory egg pancakes you get at those breakfast shops? NoiseAnnoys fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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yugioh mishima posted:egg pancake （蛋餅）is like thinner and soft and chewy (usually) and always has egg i believe and scallion pancake （蔥油餅）has more flaky/crispy pastry, is thicker, and doesn’t necessarily have egg though if u get one without egg you’re definitely fuckin weird. also i think the scallion pancake is made with more oil. at least that is my understanding cool, i'm going to try track down a good recipe to surprise my wife with egg pancakes one of these mornings because she misses them a ton and we haven't been able to visit Taipei and her parents since the beginning of the pandemic. it's a shame my mandarin and taiwanese are absolute dogshit, I gotta work on that this year, but hopefully some cooking blog has a good english-language recipe. yeah egg (and sometimes cheese) is key, but the egg pancakes I loved from the breakfast joint in her neighborhood always had bacon or pork in them. definitely one of the all-time great breakfasts, even if the milk tea always gives everyone the shits. Wonton posted:Wtfffff Yeah, super hot pan, and you gotta stretch and tear them while they cook so they get flaky and crispy, right? NoiseAnnoys fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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ronya posted:As a plea for cultural relativity, the West also had a brief cultural period of fascination with mysticism and esotericism. New ways of knowing! The mysteries of the occult! Jim Jone's People's Temple was politically active and influential. Let's not imply that mysticism is a unique Chinese defect of spirituality, because it wasn't. you could probably go back even farther to the spiritualists and the occultists like crowley and their fascination with yoga, tbh.
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Ups_rail posted:I just dont like how political it got. how political were you expecting an international airspace incident to get, if you don't mind my asking?
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Ups_rail posted:okay balloons are hard to control, So the plan of send a bunch of ballons to float over X place for spy reasons is just kinda hard for me to believe. yeah that's not what would happen anywhere.
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Porfiriato posted:Any legit 'innocent' agency would also have been identified by this point, instead of the Chinese government continuing to dodge and weave every time they're asked who, exactly, the balloon belonged to anyway. it;s a shame we made this political
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probably shouldn't have killed all those pesky traditional chinese martial artists during the great leap forward.
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mobby_6kl posted:They should send Jackie Chan Taiwan got Chang Dong Sheng in the expansion draft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ym3y0iLpSE
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Also, woof that is a gross russian twitter account.
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germane to the taiwan/china topic split and being good husbands, etc. my wife is taiwanese, in-laws are taiwanese (natch!) and i'm not. so now that my career is settling down and i'm able to devote more time to it, i'd like to start learning more taiwanese and mandarin (beyond the swears) so i can communicate with my in-laws more fully. also, we're hoping to raise our kid trilingually (mandarin, english, and czech) so i'd like to at least have a foundation in some decent mandarin. plus i love going back to taiwan and we're hoping to go there (god willing and xi doesn't start any poo poo) for a visit next year or this christmas, so it'd be great to be more independent and be able to go out and do stuff we need to do (groceries, help out, etc.) without my wife translating or google translating everything. does anyone have any recommended online courses or textbooks for self-learners? i've got good experience in learning slavic languages and german but every time i try to pick up mandarin i bounce off the textbooks really hard.
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Wonton posted:Holy ducking poo poo this is insane this is also basically the greatest hits of 20th-21st century history of totalitarian political systems. hungary '56? totally wanted those tanks there. czechoslovakia '68? we were stopping a nato invasion! tianamen '89? what are you talking about, never happened.
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why does it have to be some weird shadowy cabal political thing, op?
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Ups_rail posted:You two are missing my point, I m not litigating the origin of covid, I m asking why now 2 years of reports, articles and statements that didnt point of the finger to china, all of a sudden FBI and DOE are talking about it. I assume there s a reason. And that reason isnt new evidence coming to light. why are you assuming anything? this is tinfoil hat "great game" thinking, lol. quick, scour the leper's colony for america's foreign policy shifts!
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Mr. Nice! posted:Note the lab leak hypothesis isn’t that covid was bioengineered. It’s based upon a series of events: exactly. it's also not some grand scheme by the biden administration to opaquely comment on us-chinese relations either. our agencies have their own agendas, individual goals, etc., and that's without getting into the fact that this isn't some central politburo situation on our end where all communiqués are approved by centralized bureaucratic authorities.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I have no disagreement. I'm just saying that there are 18 intelligence agencies of some sort or another in the USA. Exactly two of them have this explanation as even likely. One of them just barely passed the point of 50% probability tipped over the scales by a plausibly responsible party. The other is full of cops. Reminder that the #1 killer of police for three years running is COVID-19 because they're all trumper dipshits who refuse to get their shot. yeah. i get that it's easy to be cynical about american bureaucracy too, but if anything the inability of the CDC to convey guidelines and force policy in other areas during the pandemic is pretty much proof in the pudding of how inefficient and uncooperative these agencies are to their other governmental bedfellows at their very cores, here.
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Kharnifex posted:I snuck a durian lolly into a kids sandwich once, we all looked on as he ate it and said the butter had gone bad. mother in law has a power move she'll pull out where she demands durian ice cream and then has two bites and makes my father in law finish it (he hates durian). i like durian, so i volunteered to help out once and she shoo'd me away. apparently baba had pissed her off the day before over something stupid.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Is he? Other than the hype we normally give when billionaires make public statements, I haven’t really heard much about him. that's cause he got disappeared for a while, no?
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yugioh mishima posted:jiufen is great and especially worth seeing if you like ghibli, it was the inspiration for the town in spirited away jiufun has amazing food, but then again, pretty much everywhere in taiwan does. outside of taipei, i'm partial to hualien and taichung.
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yugioh mishima posted:close to jiufen you also have houtong where they just opened a mining museum in an old coal washing building. by 'small town Taiwan museum' standards it is extremely good - sensitively restored, lots of English, displays aren't just dry technical descriptions, 10/10 would recommend. also there are tons of cats everywhere (this is the main attraction of the town tbh) i'll have to hit that up when we go back this year. a few years back i was in xizhi district, which was a coal mining area during the dictatorship, and they had a community coal mining museum which was not nearly as cool. (though did have beers with the cool neighborhood uncle who took me around because he was fascinated that there was a foreigner who knew that there were many different kinds of coal.)
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taiwanese night markets are amazing, but the real secret win are the all-night/early morning breakfast shops.
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yugioh mishima posted:light blue pocari sweat is better than the original imo. And i’m adding 蔥油餅/蔥㧓餅 to the all night soy milk/breakfast list and also 燒餅 with egg and/or cheese hell yeah, shaobing, dan bing, or scallion pancakes are the way to go. also with the sauce and 5 spice powder. don't get the breakfast joint milk tea though unless you're constipated, it'll give you crazy shits.
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hmmm this thread got dumb as poo poo real quick
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The narration of the trailer is so bad it's good. my current favorite is prodigal son, directed by sammo hung.
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fuckin' lol @ cleopatra
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Uwu, Antony-san cixi lookin like a drop shipped judy dench.
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 also don't sleep on king hu, the master of beautiful wuxia films. come drink with me completely revolutionized the genre, then there's dragon inn (the original one), touch of zen, and more.
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didnt taiwan ban it on certan networks for just that very reason?
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my objection to tiktok is it sucks.
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was bummed to see hualien got hit hard, i love that part of taiwan. it's also weirdly enough where i had my first earthquake experience and thought it was my inlaws loving hard in the next room until my wife informed me that no, it was an earthquake.
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Marcade posted:Your wife was just covering for them, FYI. i thought that too until i looked out the window and saw other buidlings shaking lol
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