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6 Aug 2021 1 minute read 6 comments Chinuck
As summer is getting into full swing in many places, here's a simple recipe to help you cool off. (Apologies to citizens of the Southern Hemisphere for my Northern Hemisphere centrism.) This recipe is more commonly done with mint, but this is a Japa...
5 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby
I watched a show recently, Vexed, where the main characters are discussing the suitability of a flat over a corpse. They become so wrapped up in the nature of the apartment that they forget (apparently) that a deceased person is below them, her last...
4 Aug 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Chinuck
Noodle soup is as Asian as burgers are American. As a Chinese kid growing up in North America, I liked both of these foods, but I remember the particular challenges they brought me as well. Crappy fast food burgers were generally not a problem, but a...
3 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Necksus
In the United States, we have a long, proud, storied tradition of calling people cultists for doing things outside the norm. This isn't going to stop most people IRL from telling you that you're a weirdo for thinking like Fox Mulder from the X-Files...
2 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Chinuck
This dish is known as "Four Season Beans" because it performs equally well in snow, rain and on dry roads. It's best done with Chinese long beans, but can also be done with string beans, which are more common. I had some fine beans, which I think are...
1 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky
Have you ever heard of Somaliland?! I am absolutely SHOCKED by how amazing this place is. I never expected this!!! Since 1991, my birth year, Somaliland has been a self-declared region of Somalia and has been seeking international independence since...
1 Aug 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Drew Binsky
I've recently been getting a lot of questions about India, and why I haven't recently been there... So I put together this video with my honest thoughts and opinions of the country after a 3 month solo backpacking trip in early 2015. I have a love-h...
30 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
I love using fermented black beans, but if I want to make something quickly and add a lot of flavour, black bean sauce is convenient to use. While you can buy ready-made black bean sauce in Asian supermarkets, or even "regular" supermarkets nowadays,...
28 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
When I was a young lad, we didn't have pidan pastries at dim sum, but now these new fangled things have become quite trendy. I first introduced pidan in a more traditional use with congee, but today we're going to make a "new fangled" (as old me say...
27 Jul 2021 5 minute read 4 comments LateToTheParty
Intro: Twitter e-Drama from an Ex-Insomniac Developer On July 21, 2021, an ex-Insomniac developer by the name of Xavier took to Twitter to vent about how the Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart's game and art director wanted Rivet, the playable female Lomb...
