Trying to be nice.

Buddhist, researcher, FOSS, Linux, selfhosting enthusiast, plantbased, anarchism and MLM interested

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Cake day: January 4th, 2025

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  • That sounds not up my alley compared to Sichuan food, haha! That’s interesting about baozi!

    IDK your family, but the religious reasons is where they say oh monastics really eat meat… My PhD studies are Chinese Buddhism, I would know haha. The once a year this is annoying. You can always say you’re eating some medicine that you can’t drink. No crazy drinkers there?

    Last week I went with an uncle and his friends and they drank an absurd amount. I probably had 5 plus standard drinks of baijiu. Too much… I don’t get the fun in too much.

    If we are in Asia we always come but I haven’t been back since COVID so this year is a big one for us. What about you? I hope to come annually in the future.





  • That’s fun they make it too :) Is your Henan food spicy or what? Never been!

    I think pretty much every family member in China doesn’t really get it and frequently tells me I can in fact eat meat. They said, my PILs have cooked plenty of plantbased meals for me. Eating this way was a personal choice but I am also Buddhist. I also get a lot of comments telling me that monastics in China eat meat, which isn’t necessarily true, so why don’t I. Then I also get the silly questions saying well what about shrimp? Or fish? Or pork? lol more silly than pressured.





  • That sounds awesome! Lucky you for having awesome cooks in the family.

    I don’t eat meat anymore but the best meat that I know from when I did was probably huiguorou or larou. The first is like a pan fried thick pork belly. The second is winter curred sausage. I just had a pan fried tofu dish and jiucai. Both yummy. Grandma gave me her pickled garlic which I really liked.

    Took the time to interview her about the 60s. It was interesting!