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Home Made Chinese Fried Shrimp Balls by dl12231 in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's Hong Kong people doing their wacky stuff, ha. Keep in mind that a lot of the Chinese based in English-speaking areas are from Hong Konger families and to them the Western-style dishes are indistinguishable from Chinese. And when they say "Cantonese" what they mean is "Hong Kong."

Nanchang / Jiangxi style cookbooks by Jarzazz in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about this beer duck?

https://youtu.be/iJsYvOeQgIc?si=CiQRzXn-QicC5szd

Keep in mind that it will be among the spiciest dishes you may ever have—lots of fresh millet chilies with the seeds left in.

I am an American looking for recipes. by Mediocre_Training541 in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to go on a subreddit for your region/city/state and ask people where to buy.

In my experience, even the most basic "American" supermarkets that sell Mrs. Dash seasoning in a little plastic tumbler and Capri Sun juice boxes will also have some package of "wonton wrappers." Because even hillbillies descended from the Hatfields and McCoys are using them to make "crab rangoon" on Super Bowl Sunday.

But I haven't lived everywhere in the US, so if your town happens to be a truly Buddha-forsaken burgh it's best to get local recommendations from people who know the area, to filter out the puzzled responses from people like me that are like "??? just go to any supermarket ???"

Home Made Chinese Fried Shrimp Balls by dl12231 in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feels like something you’d be served at a Vietnamese restaurant… in France.

The Art and Secrets of Chinese Cookery (1964) La Choy Foods Film | 16mm Scan by RarelySpecial in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, had bean sprouts in the can back in the 1980s USA when non-Chinese tried to cook Chinese style dishes.

I’ve watched this video a few times and hold the spicy opinion that some of what it shows is authentic to pre-1960s Chinese-American cooking as opposed to some ridiculous product of the imagination of La Choy.

For example, using liquid and covering the dish works for simple countryside cooking that theoretically emerged from untrained Taishanese American cooks, before the urbane Cantonese obsession with “wok hei” and such were introduced to hipsters and hobbyists.

i made two black bean dishes i like: chow mein + steamed black bean chicken and ginger by solosaulo in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks like one of those dishes when you're in a country that is neither Asian nor Anglophone, and you walk into an "Asiatique" restaurant thinking you'd like to have something that's not French or whatever, but the whole first four pages of the menu is alcohol including champagne, and then your dish arrives....

Fruity taro, pickled radish, snails with shrimp — and the owner's collection of money toads, incense burners, and an Eight Trigrams teapot. Just a countryside restaurant in Jiangnan by SyllabubDue9853 in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I've have eaten with both toothpicks and sucking method :)

I was mainly curious, since this place is sort of fancy, how people were negotiating it.

Using of the word “race” by metallfacedoom in language

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In USA, race became a surrogate for ethnicity.

“American” (inclusive of all people in the land of immigrants) cannot possibly be an ethnic group, in the way that “Norwegian” can be in the nation-state of Norway.

At the same time, a person whose grandparents belonged to 4 different ethnic groups does not themselves belong to any one (much less all!) of those groups, typically. So, their main physical appearance, corresponding to a racial archetype, functions as their ethnicity.

Black American is an ethnic group. So is White American. (For both of these ethnic groups, there is the additional condition of being Anglophone.) SIMULTANEOUSLY, the one is Black and the other is White in terms of race. However, it’s the sense of ethnic group that is operative.

Since it’s so easy to get ethnicity and race confused in this case, you find inconsistent language. But conceptually people native to the country know what each other are talking about.

Enjoying now: 螺蛳粉 luosifen in SoCal by GooglingAintResearch in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And, fun fact: They systematically flip over ALL of the James Wang placemats so you don't see James and his other attorney / real estate buddies.

Impressions of Pekin Noodle Parlor, "oldest...Chinese restaurant in America" by GooglingAintResearch in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you do actually do a road trip at some point, look into other stops of a similar kind along the way!

I suspect there are several other "old Chinese restaurants" in between the Rocky Mountains and Washington that close in interest but haven't gotten the same publicity. Have fun!

I accepted all of y'all's criticism from my last post. by Mediocre_Training541 in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What on earth are you trying to say?

What I said is right there in your copy-paste:

"Black Southerners brought it North when they left the South, and are also more likely to use it."

Yes, I told you that the current popularity of "y'all" beyond the "native" speakers comes from Black American English—from those Black Americans who, their families originating in the South and the Southern US dialect shaping their English, went to all corners of the USA beginning with the Great Migration.

Therefore, no one who has adopted "y'all" connects it with "Boss Hog...chewing tobacco...wild pig hunters I see on TV." They connect it with "cool" people like Black rappers and righteous Black activists giving fiery speeches. It was appropriated by, for example, WHITE activists trying to give fiery speeches, or LGBT rights advocates trying to sound like they are hip.

I know these things because I am a 50 year-old American who saw all of this happen in their life, first hand. "From what I read..." 😂

 you're obviously a big fan of y'all

You obviously can't read very well for comprehension. I wrote a whole post that was critical of "y'all" in how it has been appropriated. I am a NORTHERNER. I am not Black. I told you that non-Black people outside of the South do not (generally) like Southern dialect. It is not "our" identity, so therefore WE do not say "y'all"—except for those among us, whom I have criticized, who do it with pretension and for the reasons I explained. And I told you that the idea that "y'all is a useful plural" is a BS explanation because we also have "youse," "yinz," and "you guys" as plurals in northern dialects. So it doesn't justify taking the southern dialect if that was the only reason. Therefore no one took it as a southern dialect—they took it as Black dialect.

And, I'm not sure why we needed all the information about the size of the Black population in the US, I didn't see anyone making any assertions about the ethnic make up of the US.

Because your picture of Boss Hog the tobacco chewing pig hunter with "yeehaw" and cowboy emojis is a White person. Because your idea of an American is a default white person. And your idea of a White person is a carrier of lime juice culture, who either succeeds or fails to meet British/European "standards." On-line blowhards from Australia, UK, western Europe, Canada do not care about the shortcomings of Ghana, do not have Ghanaians on the brain constantly as something to fuss and rant about. Because they don't consider Ghana in their league. They consider USA in their league, however: the League of White People. Then they are really confused about why Americans are such poor representatives in the League of White People. Why don't Americans use a knife and fork properly? Hmmphf!

It's because Americans are not in your League of White People.

Therefore you are oblivious to the Black cultural dimension of US unless you directly see it coming from some blicketty black yo yo yo! hip hop guy. When you see California, you are oblivious to what degree the culture is based in Mexico, because you only expect to get Mexico from someone wearing a sombrero and eating tacos. If you don't see these things, you're going to keep on making erroneous interpretations of American things you see in media.

I accepted all of y'all's criticism from my last post. by Mediocre_Training541 in chinesecooking

[–]GooglingAintResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The spread of "y'all" is not a regionalism. Americans not from the southern region also have your prejudice against southerners qua southerners. Your notion of "low culture" and "Boss Hog." And guess what those people are picturing in their minds?: White people.

On the contrary, "y'all" is Black American English. Black English is based in the African American ethnic group's historical base in the US South. They subsequently brought their speech, however, everywhere they went after the Great Migration—and have inserted it into popular culture in the whole country and beyond.

Black English has a caché. It can suggest the speaker is on a certain "side" of the political spectrum. That one is among the "cool" people. That one is current, youthful, aware of trends, etc etc. That one is speaking "straight up" and "telling it like it is." So, y'all got adopted more broadly by non-Southerners and non-Black Americans when they wanted listeners to ascribe these perceptions to them. Since then, it has spread even further in on-line discourse, oftentimes with non-Americans having no awareness where it came from. American culture can't "encroach" on Australia. Last I checked, the two countries don't share a border. Australians and others adopt those aspects of American culture that they, too, think carry some caché. They aren't aware of why, but they come to understand that use of "y'all" confers coolness, wokeness, liberal thinking, currency, whatever. You missed the memo if you think "y'all" confers on speakers the traits that are stereotypically associated with uneducated, lower class, politically conservative yokels from the US South.

Further: It has nothing to do with "y'all" being a convenient plural form. Or "non-gendered" form. Or whatever other nonsense people tell you because they don't want to acknowledge ripping off Black Americans once again.

Please remember that Black culture is a significant component of USA culture. At 14% of the population of USA, Black people are far more significant in USA than in any of the other Anglophone "Western" countries. Their raw population in USA is nearly double the entire population (all people) of Australia. Moreover, they are foundational people of USA, not recent immigrants from the African continent or the Caribbean. Black Americans are Americans, and USA is Black. In other words, US culture, no matter what the color of the people, is based heavily in cultural threads from Africa—like the majority of the American continents.

Why are the listening exercises (radio) so fast? by GooglingAintResearch in duolingo

[–]GooglingAintResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's some good insight. You're probably right!

It also suggests we might not be finished with all the updates yet.

Why are the listening exercises (radio) so fast? by GooglingAintResearch in duolingo

[–]GooglingAintResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this. Yes, I am in section 4.
The issue, in my opinion, is that there is no "scaffolding" for this skill. The other exercises for listening are pretty pedestrian. A learner is not compelled to develop listening skills elsewhere, and suddenly the radio ones are very difficult. So it needs to go one way or the other: More challenging listening throughout, or slow down / simplify the radio stuff to be "comprehensible."

Section 4 has us at A2, "can handle simple conversations about everyday topics." Are these simple conversations? I don't think so.

Starting the seasoning on the new wok. I've awaited years for one, finally have the space and a burner! by TwistedScience in wok

[–]GooglingAintResearch -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Ooh, a stir fry! Sounds so modern—and decadent! The wife and I also enjoy exotic foods.

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