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#Years of Rice and Salt
utilitycaster · 2 months
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I should note, I hate the soulmates "we would fall in love in every universe" trope for the aforementioned "where's the tension and interest and really anything worthwhile" reasons. However, "we would find each other in every universe" fucking rips. We would interact meaningfully in every universe but sometimes we are lovers and sometimes we are friends and sometimes we are bitter enemies and sometimes we'd simply both be in the same HOA.
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eunuchboy · 6 days
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obsob · 2 years
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vengeance
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morethansalad · 9 months
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Melt-in-Your-Mouth Green Pea Cookies / Chinese New Year Cookies (Vegan)
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teabutmakeitazure · 6 months
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I ate cooked jasmine rice for lunch and was so extremely confused about why they're somewhat sticky
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whoviandoodler · 6 months
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Actually eating food to feel better or to lift your mood or 'drown your troubles' or whatever is great!!! It's amazing and good and does help!!! Like yes obviously you should think abt the cause of your bad emotions if you haven't and stuff, but there's not a single thing wrong with eating food- including carbs, sugar, and everything seen as 'bad' by diet culture- to cope with them. Eating is good and morally neutral always and forever, and fuck diet culture for making me think for years that it's a moral failing to eat when I'm down. Sometimes you just need to have some chips or some pasta or some chocolate or literally whatever, food is love, food is comfort, let it be there for you when you can't deal with something in the moment.
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buffetlicious · 1 year
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Was supposed to order the chicken version but we already have many chicken dishes, so I ended up with the Red Rice Vinesse Pork Belly (红糟三层肉). While I like the rice wine flavoured gravy, pork is not tender enough for me. Seems like the meat is cooked separately and later combined with the gravy. 
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Another pick from sister-in-law, the Deep-Fried Prawns with Salt & Pepper (椒盐虾). The garlicy salt and pepper profile is nice but the prawns are a little small so after frying, there wasn’t much meat to eat and some family members don’t want to get their hands dirty peeling the shells.
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The most expensive dish of the night is this Deep-Fried Squirrel Fish with Fruit Sauce (水果松鼠鱼). A whole fish beautifully sliced and deep-fried then drizzled with sweet and tangy sauce made from fruits. You also get canned lychees and freshly diced pineapples for the fruits portion.
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Sis likes this Bean Curd Kailan (豆皮芥兰) which is fried bean curd skin with Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. Ordered this Prawn Paste Chicken (虾酱鸡) for the kiddos. Appearance wise, the mid-wings are unevenly browned but it made up with surprisingly umami flavours and juiciness. Well, looks can be deceiving.
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No, this is not braised pork belly but Fragrant Egg Plant (鱼香茄子煲). This claypot brinjal or aubergine is beautiful cooked if a tad salty but perfect with the white rice. There is also a twelve dish, the Salted Fish Fried Rice (咸鱼炒饭) for one of the kid but I did not take photo of.
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Here is the Bill for the meal including the rice and refreshments. We ordered ala carte so we picked the dishes we like and it ended up cheaper compared to the expensive set menu the restaurants offered for the actual day (Chinese New Year Eve). 
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peebls · 7 months
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Getting emotional over the shitty bowl of congee I'm having for breakfast
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proserpine-in-phases · 11 months
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Enough alternate histories where the turning point was in the 1940s, give me the alternate histories where the mongols conquered all of europe
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rosszulorzott · 1 year
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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2002. The novel explores how world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99 percent of Europe's population, instead of a third as it did in reality. (Wikipedia)
The Magyars were killed by page 18. Not all the peoples killed by the plague were mentioned by name but the Magyars were, stating specifically that all of them were dead. Which sounds great to me considering the present state of affairs. Nice intro, history without Magyars.
Previous reads from this author: Mars Trilogy, 2312, The Ministry for the Future
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saja-star · 3 months
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I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.
When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"
When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...
"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.
"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"
Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."
People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?
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imethirdperson · 24 days
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I feel like k's characterization is getting a bit more inconsistent. In the america book he behaved more like b, weirdly passive and dispassionate, probably from being the pov character (rare). It's interesting to see their journey through lives, cause their character develops according to this very specific religious ethical framework (they're born to progressively better social positions as they chills and conform). But like k says, it's unclear whether it's better to rebel against the gods or obey them and accept the world's cruelty. It seems the main character arc of the book is k's personal conflict about injustice. I assume at some point before the halfway point they will be proven right and then the main character arc will be b's coming to term with the nihilism of k being right. And then at some point the two of them will reach some type of middle ground most likely
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nomaishuttle · 6 months
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DAJ BOUGHT STUFF FOR POT ROAST EVERYBODY GRINNING SMILING CLAPPING JUMPING UP AND DOWN 48473947393837384 PUPPIES AND KITTENS BORN EVERY SECOND !! BABIES GIGGLING FAIRIES FLYING RAINBOWS IN THE SKY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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arthurdrakoni · 7 months
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The Years of Rice and Salt is a truly epic alternate history that explores a world where the Black Death wiped-out 99% of Europe. This is my review.
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I had been meaning to read The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson for quite some time, and I’m more than glad that I finally got around to it. It is an epic alternate history with a truly global scope. It takes place in a world where the Black Death killed 99% of Europe. However, there’s also the additional wrinkle that reincarnation, as discribed by Tibetan Buddhism, is also real. As such, we follow three main characters, and three minor characters, as they are reincarnated over the ages and across this alternate world. To make things easier, the characters’ names always start with the same letter so we can keep track of who is who.
I absolutely loved this book. I loved the global scope. We get to see China, India, Japan, The Middle East, a New World that largely avoided colonization, and a Europe recolonized by Muslims. I also loved the wide variety of cultures we get to experience. We see characters who are Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Iroquois, Miowak, Berber, Arab, Turkish, Mongol, and more. It is always good to see more diversity of cultures and nations in alternate history beyond the usual western set.
The writing is very good, and at times was even downright poetic. Some people say that The Years of Rice and Salt is a modern day classic, and frankly, I’m inclined to agree. I just love this book so much, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Have you read The Years of Rice and Salt? If so, what did you think?
Anyway, here’s the link to my full review: http://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-years-of-rice-and-salt-by.html?m=1
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morethansalad · 1 year
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Nanakusa Gayu / Japanese Seven Herb Rice Porridge (Vegan)
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