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Mar. 25th, 2020
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clotpoleofthelord replied to your photo “So uhh in case anyone was wondering 1) Asian Food Market up on Niagara…”
oh my GOD those look AMAZING
So the thing is, they are, and they’re fantastic, and we had four different kinds of them and didn’t even touch the package of gyoza I also impulse-bought, and also because I impulse-bought a TRULY VAST plastic baggie of baby bok choi we sauteed those in garlic and had An Vegetable with our meal too so it was actually kind of a balanced thingy and not a terrible idea for the body at all? and this was going somewhere grammatically and i don’t know so i’m going to stop–
oh, right, well. So the thing about Asian Food Market Up On Niagara Falls Blvd is that it is this truly vast complex, inside of an old Wal-Mart, and it is full of a lot of things, like a lot a lot? (and one of the things I was pumped to discover is that they carry Perry’s ice cream which is a regional-to-here favorite thing and I had been freaking out over my lack of ice cream so like. yesss)— it’s got mostly Chinese foods, with a healthy sampling of Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, and some Japanese food (a little), and then a big old whack of South Asian stuff, generally Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi, but
it doesn’t really have any Central Asian stuff. Which is not surprising, as when we were there, most of the foods were either imported Chinese packaged things, or raw ingredients then locally assembled. So.
But my point is, if I want manty, I’m going to have to make them myself, which I had rather anticipated, I had just sort of been wondering if there might be something that approximately fit the bill. They had a lot of meats sliced for hotpot, and a lot of like pork chine bones and things for making broths, but no mutton. So.
The hell of it is, I have several excellent sources for mutton, just none of them are local to here, and if I’d been more on the ball during my last visit home I could have obtained it, but now I don’t know who in Western NY to buy mutton from.
But. If I make a bunch of manty, then I can probably freeze some and then we can add them to the rotation because it’s going to take us several meals to get through all of the dumplings I bought like a crazy person. So, I just have to find mutton and dial in a good recipe.
clotpoleofthelord replied to your photo “So uhh in case anyone was wondering 1) Asian Food Market up on Niagara…”
oh my GOD those look AMAZING
So the thing is, they are, and they’re fantastic, and we had four different kinds of them and didn’t even touch the package of gyoza I also impulse-bought, and also because I impulse-bought a TRULY VAST plastic baggie of baby bok choi we sauteed those in garlic and had An Vegetable with our meal too so it was actually kind of a balanced thingy and not a terrible idea for the body at all? and this was going somewhere grammatically and i don’t know so i’m going to stop–
oh, right, well. So the thing about Asian Food Market Up On Niagara Falls Blvd is that it is this truly vast complex, inside of an old Wal-Mart, and it is full of a lot of things, like a lot a lot? (and one of the things I was pumped to discover is that they carry Perry’s ice cream which is a regional-to-here favorite thing and I had been freaking out over my lack of ice cream so like. yesss)— it’s got mostly Chinese foods, with a healthy sampling of Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, and some Japanese food (a little), and then a big old whack of South Asian stuff, generally Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi, but
it doesn’t really have any Central Asian stuff. Which is not surprising, as when we were there, most of the foods were either imported Chinese packaged things, or raw ingredients then locally assembled. So.
But my point is, if I want manty, I’m going to have to make them myself, which I had rather anticipated, I had just sort of been wondering if there might be something that approximately fit the bill. They had a lot of meats sliced for hotpot, and a lot of like pork chine bones and things for making broths, but no mutton. So.
The hell of it is, I have several excellent sources for mutton, just none of them are local to here, and if I’d been more on the ball during my last visit home I could have obtained it, but now I don’t know who in Western NY to buy mutton from.
But. If I make a bunch of manty, then I can probably freeze some and then we can add them to the rotation because it’s going to take us several meals to get through all of the dumplings I bought like a crazy person. So, I just have to find mutton and dial in a good recipe.
oh an untamed update
Mar. 25th, 2020 12:27 pmvia https://ift.tt/2UgRTCq
we didn’t get to watch an episode last night because the cat was Too Comfy on Z’s chest and neither of us could bear to disturb her but the night before that we saw The One Where WW Draws A Rabbit On The Lantern And Lan Zhan SMILES At It And WW Is So Startled He Starts A Fire, which was amazing.
I have seen enough gifsets in general that I specifically knew the smile was coming and yet I still SCREAMED, which was hilarious, because Z has not seen any gifsets and was also like OH MY GOD, so like. (Also if anyone can find a gifset of that scene I would appreciate because I cannot find one now that I am actually looking, lol.)
I ended up not reading any of the spoilery WTF Is Going On guides because by the fourth or fifth episode I basically had caught up and figured out who everybody was, but I’ve kept them bookmarked just in case.
I’m almost sorry Z was interested in watching the series with me because I’d’ve just binged it by now but he’s not a binge-watch kind of Dude. At the rate of one episode per day with occasional 0 days due to cat interference, I’m likely to be still watching this when the quarantine is finally lifted in like three years…
we didn’t get to watch an episode last night because the cat was Too Comfy on Z’s chest and neither of us could bear to disturb her but the night before that we saw The One Where WW Draws A Rabbit On The Lantern And Lan Zhan SMILES At It And WW Is So Startled He Starts A Fire, which was amazing.
I have seen enough gifsets in general that I specifically knew the smile was coming and yet I still SCREAMED, which was hilarious, because Z has not seen any gifsets and was also like OH MY GOD, so like. (Also if anyone can find a gifset of that scene I would appreciate because I cannot find one now that I am actually looking, lol.)
I ended up not reading any of the spoilery WTF Is Going On guides because by the fourth or fifth episode I basically had caught up and figured out who everybody was, but I’ve kept them bookmarked just in case.
I’m almost sorry Z was interested in watching the series with me because I’d’ve just binged it by now but he’s not a binge-watch kind of Dude. At the rate of one episode per day with occasional 0 days due to cat interference, I’m likely to be still watching this when the quarantine is finally lifted in like three years…
staying at home works, y’all.
Mar. 25th, 2020 03:51 pmvia https://ift.tt/39hPiwo
wyomingnot:
I’m a USian expat living in China. There are no active cases in my province. There have been no new cases in a month. How did we do this? We STAYED HOME. We stayed away from each other when we did have to leave the house. We washed our hands. A lot.
School was supposed to start here a month ago. We still don’t have a new start date. Caution.
Shops other than food finally started opening up again last weekend. And while there are more people out than there have been since this all started, there are no crowds. We’re still keeping apart. They’re still checking your temp before you can go into Walmart and the big supermarkets.
People coming into China from anywhere are tested for the virus when they get here. Then if they’re clear, they’re still subjected to government quarantine for 14 days. Fun times.
But I still feel safer here.
wyomingnot:
I’m a USian expat living in China. There are no active cases in my province. There have been no new cases in a month. How did we do this? We STAYED HOME. We stayed away from each other when we did have to leave the house. We washed our hands. A lot.
School was supposed to start here a month ago. We still don’t have a new start date. Caution.
Shops other than food finally started opening up again last weekend. And while there are more people out than there have been since this all started, there are no crowds. We’re still keeping apart. They’re still checking your temp before you can go into Walmart and the big supermarkets.
People coming into China from anywhere are tested for the virus when they get here. Then if they’re clear, they’re still subjected to government quarantine for 14 days. Fun times.
But I still feel safer here.
millicentthecat:me, watching TFA: “ah… a
Mar. 25th, 2020 08:20 pmvia https://ift.tt/3dtrEjL
millicentthecat:
me, watching TFA: “ah… a work in the vein of Aeschylus’ Supplices, in that it is the first of a trilogy where the other works were lost…such a shame, such a tragedy that we will never know how the story continues…hopelessly unfinished…”
millicentthecat:
me, watching TFA: “ah… a work in the vein of Aeschylus’ Supplices, in that it is the first of a trilogy where the other works were lost…such a shame, such a tragedy that we will never know how the story continues…hopelessly unfinished…”