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2 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Chinuck $0.05
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 $0.06
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 $0.02
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 $0.05
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 $0.08
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 $0.27
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...
26 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.03
There are just so many things you can do with shrimp. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. There's shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut sh...
23 Jul 2021 3 minute read 5 comments Chinuck $0.06
Hong Kong style cafés don't actually serve that much coffee. Instead, they serve copious amounts of their quintessential Hong Kong style milk tea. As the saying goes, when the colonizers give you tea, make milk tea. So what's a Ying Yang, you might...
21 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.10
If you've never had bitter melon before, it's bitter. (Really?!) Well, there's more to the story than that. In Chinese, there are 2 words for bitter, "foo" (苦) and -- hmmm...both phoneticizations I can think of are problematic, so I'll go with the...
19 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.08
Dried scallops are one of the most prized ingredients in Chinese cooking, second only to abalone. (We're just going to ignore shark's fin.) Even just a few of them adds a ton of umami to a dish and good quality dried scallops can get rather expensiv...
