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i'm eating some delicious taiwanese popcorn chicken right now i think it's kind of cheating at the mod challenge to actually be in taiwan however
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BrigadierSensible posted:I wonder if Nancy saw the meat shaped rock whilst in Taiwan. if nancy only sees one rock that’s shaped like something that isn’t a rock then the meat rock is a pretty good choice. definitely better than the jade cabbage and the rock that looks like nefertiti.
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Tarquinn posted:Well..... that's strange, i thought it was impossible to watch the BBC in north korea
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Alan Smithee posted:when I was last in Taiwan you couldn't find any Mexican we’ve got masa now, which is pretty legit. there’s also the odd mexican dude who can cook just selling stuff on the street/out of a truck, but the last guy who did that well (七張捷運站的附近) seems to have hosed off Horatius Bonar posted:There's fresh Mex/Cali Mex Macho is the one which is round shida and it’s like okay if u want taco bell level stuff with tons of oil and salt. and to be fair that is sometimes exactly what i want.
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Aug 9, 2022 19:28
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the real struggle is finding ethiopian food as far as i can tell there is one stall which is basically never open (Weirdly there is a very good ethiopian restaurant in phnom penh)
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Aug 9, 2022 19:34
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if they made weed legal just for tourism purposes it’s worked pretty well, quite a few people i know have been there and judging from their instagram stories just spent the whole time going to various dispensariesAtlas Hugged posted:The conservative Buddhist lobby is incredibly powerful. The alcohol laws are incredibly strict and most of them are enforced. lol i was going to ask whether this also means the stupid alcohol laws had been relaxed. i guess not. i remember being totally baffled that you could buy beer between 9am and 12pm, but not during the afternoon
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Aug 11, 2022 10:44
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salty egg yolk mooncakes are the best kind
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Aug 25, 2022 04:13
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Cambodia: sihanoukville is the single sketchiest place i have ever visited, god. very unsurprised that all the taiwanese ppl who are getting human trafficked over there ended up in sihanoukville. the islands off otres are unbelievably beautiful tho. when i went there kampot was full of white guys in their 50s and 60s propping up the various bars complaining about their cambodian wives so if that’s your scene great i guess. also i have a friend who worked at a school in Phnom penh and the stories he has about his coworkers there are just something else. e.g. there was a guy who carried around a bottle of his own piss, which he would drink for “health benefits” malaysia is somewhat underrated, the food in particular is unbelievable (penang is probably the best food destination in SEA and i’ve been everywhere bar indonesia and the philippines), but agreed that the whole country is Pedestrian Hell
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Aug 29, 2022 09:38
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Strategic Tea posted:She has since recanted the pro ISIS line on the basis of not having to hand it to them etc. she was also trafficked into syria in the first place by a canadian intelligence officer, a fact that was then covered up by the uk and canada :^)
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Oct 17, 2022 09:01
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LashLightning posted:I think it was an intelligence 'asset', rather than 'officer'. Canadian Jack Bauer didn't help her, but someone who the Canadian Intelligence Services paid for information did. yes you are correct! my bad i forgot the exact details i just saw the story a few weeks back
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Oct 17, 2022 12:20
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Atlas Hugged posted:Just landed in Good China for the first time in almost four years. Good to finally be back. welcome back. it’s fuckin cold for some reason. been weird seeing obvious tourists walking around again
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Dec 18, 2022 07:30
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Atlas Hugged posted:Pingtung was cold until I found my in-laws booze and that wasn't very hard considering they live in a grocery store. if taiwan had legal weed that would be it, i would be living here forever GoutPatrol posted:I will now leak mod forum secrets i don’t like 10C anywhere in the world but the humidity here is hosed also a few weeks back i climbed 玉山 which is cold by anyone’s standards
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it’s unusual to see it in taipei city but pretty common basically anywhere else. you guys would be horrified by vietnam. how about an adult with three children on a rusty bicycle veering about on a six-lane road with huge trucks going by doing 50-60mph?
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Dec 22, 2022 11:19
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Oberndorf posted:Fortunately, a study in Annals of Internal Medicine (not a fly-by-night sort of journal) indicated that common procedure masks are non-inferior to N95s at preventing COVID spread. Buy the cheap masks, save your face, wash your damned hands. i’m gonna keep wearing my korean black kf94s, because they look fuckin cool
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NoiseAnnoys posted:back on topic, what's the difference between scallion pancakes and the taiwanese savory egg pancakes you get at those breakfast shops? 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
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i like my scallion pancakes 加蛋加起司加辣 and i will not apologize for it!!
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GoutPatrol posted:In Taiwan it is very difficult to find dill outside of the wintertime (same with strawberries.) I would love a nice creamy dill macaroni salad in the summer. buy a dill plant and just put it outside. dill absolutely LOVES taiwan weather. i bought a tiny lil plant and despite my terrible gardening skills it grew like crazy and it’s basically a small tree edit: i should clarify, dill loves taipei weather, less sure of how it would do elsewhere
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Atlas Hugged posted:Very different than Taiwan where there are porn and sex shops on every street corner, but don't you dare look at a marijuana cigarette. Lol i was gonna say in response to korea/japan legalising weed discussion, i don't see that happening in taiwan any time soon. they banned vaping just a couple of weeks ago and i'm always quite surprised by how anti-drug a lot of people here are, even though the people i talk to and work with are mostly young, progressive, educated etc. it's weird edit: i had a look on shopee and all of the tobacco vape stuff is gone, but you can still buy weed vape batteries lmao yugioh mishima fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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thetoughestbean posted:I don’t think education is going to make people from other cultures inherently see the world the way you do. I largely agree that marijuana legalization would be good, but I don’t think that a person should just expect someone to instantly agree with them about it just because they had access to higher education it's just as odd - if not more so - that people in the west have access to lots of information about how alcohol is loving terrible for you, and yet in the uk for instance alcohol is such a huge part of life and so many people (including very educated people) drink dangerous amounts pretty much every weekend. every culture has its weirdnesses and things that don't quite make sense. i'm not judging them for it or expecting them to agree with me, but i can still think it's weird. it's ok! everyone is weird
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Mar 31, 2023 12:57
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lol i just got back from eating hot pot. i like when everyone has their own individual pot, much easier to keep track of everything and cook the meat just right
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Nov 26, 2023 15:54
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Nam Taf posted:Off to Best China tomorrow for 4 nights which will be fun. Glad them electing the Wrong candidate didn’t prematurely end my chance to finally visit it. taiwan is v cool, enjoy it what are you planning to do/see?
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Jan 17, 2024 15:22
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jiufen is great and especially worth seeing if you like ghibli, it was the inspiration for the town in spirited away however it will be absolutely full of people if you go on a saturday/sunday and IMO not really worth it if the weather is bad (which it is supposed to be after tomorrow)
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Nam Taf posted:Thanks for Taiwan tips. Jiufun looks cool, but I’m only in Taipei for a few days and given this is my first time I suspect I’ll be tied up completely within the city. For a longer trip, Jiufun absolutely sounds great as mining is an adjacent industry to my career 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) If you only have a few days in taipei then yeah there's definitely enough to see in the city to fill your time. tamsui is nice and the sunset there is famous, but if you want a cool sunset without a 40-minute MRT ride then dadaocheng wharf is basically in the downtown area and you can also gorge yourself on fried food at ningxia night market afterwards
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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 oh and if you’re going to a gay techno rave this weekend then im probably djing, say hi if u dare 
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Nam Taf posted:Studio 9? Lmao yep that’s the one if you’re there before 1 then i’ll be playing some  music
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Nam Taf posted:Missed your set unfortunately! We only arrived at 1 no worries hope u had a good time anyway! that night is always so busy since they moved it to a saturday  mobby_6kl posted:Apparently a Chinese patrol had a bit of a discussion with a Vietnamese fishing boat: Lmao i think the vietnamese are probably the people who hate china the most, which is saying something
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Mons Hubris posted:What’s up with that anyway, I’ve been seeing big Tsingtao displays at Whole Foods and Costco lately. Lucky Buddha is the most fun due to the bottle but if I’m going to drink Chinese piss beer I am partial to Yanjing. tsingtao takes its status as chinese piss beer extremely literally
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BrainDance posted:I had this naive thought that it'd be neat to be in something like that as long as you were decently secure, but that went away with the Zhengzhou flood. Yeah little earthquakes are like ‘oh cool lol’, this one was more ‘am i going to die’, not great
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