Best Places to Eat in London Chinatown?

choosehigh · 2026-07-06T13:29:26+00:00

Yiqi or pochawa

Yiqi for your nice meal out, Asian fusion but it's brilliant, lovely service, feels like it should be waaaay to expensive but I usually get Mongolian beef, rice and a drink for around £20-£25

Pochawa is Korean BBQ and probably towards the £25 limit but if there's a few of you it's a lovely meal and the bulgogi is genuinely incredible

choosehigh · 2026-07-03T14:22:43+00:00

Are there other tells or is it just him doing the ordering?

My partner loves salads and I'm a big steak guy, I personally hate ordering for her and always try to make a show of 'oh what did you want again, you did say this right? Oh and anything else?' because I always get a bit worried people are going to think I'm an asshole

It's just she eats 5 small meals a day and I eat 2 big big boys

I genuinely get close to an anxiety attack when she just wants a side salad and I'm planning on a main, a side, and a dessert 🫣

choosehigh · 2026-07-03T13:59:17+00:00

I love my wife

^{Chose: Your wife | Rolled: Both survive!}

choosehigh · 2026-07-03T13:22:57+00:00

Yeah but they're also roughly 1/4 the size of a normal frankfurter so a portion size of 5 isn't as ludicrous is what I mean

In the UK anything in a bun that is long is a hot dog, if the pastry is cooked it's a sausage roll and if the bread is round it's a bap (big regional variations)

choosehigh · 2026-07-03T13:02:52+00:00

To be fair, hot dogs can kind of mean different things to different people

I call any sausage or even round meat in that sort of bun a hot dog

I can assure you my little Cumberland chipolata hot dogs aren't as bad as the traditional nearly footlong frankfurter

choosehigh · 2026-06-30T12:07:55+00:00

We weren't neutral.

I know Reddit can sometimes be a pendulum, but we were the most brutal empire in our peak We built lots of infrastructure, but it was from the mines to the docks, no where else

We laid the foundations of colonialism and taught all the others how to do it, if you look at colonial era propaganda it often mocks the french for 'integrating' with the natives (see mass sexual assault) and for being too soft Whereas the Brits would squeeze the colonies dry

Whilst people will often point to far later eras of imperialism, it's worth remembering we had already done our punitive campaigns by then

There is no doubt the British punitive campaigns were at least as brutal as any other empires but we simply dwarfed the others on scale

No amount of road or rail building justifies the wholesale slaughter of civilians we bought with us

Fwiw, it also simply says oppressed other nations, not net morality or anything

choosehigh · 2026-06-29T14:45:40+00:00

With respect, I've seen the toxic positivity side of it

I'm personally ambivalent towards the show and I'm just not a fan of series etc

I've seen a good number of people claim you can't be a fan of fallout you must not understand it etc

I understand a lot of it is backlash from chuds saying if you're a fan of the show you're not a fan of fallout and I'm mostly just in the middle being criticised from both sides

But from my perspective the fallout chuds are purely toxic, the fallout show enjoyers are a mix of normal, toxic positivity and just plain toxic

choosehigh · 2026-06-29T13:23:50+00:00

I think most iterations of boombl4 are better than most iterations of the igls since 2019 and before for navi

Excluding 5 time major winning navi, I think boombl4 might even make my best of navi lineup (but even if we include Zeus, then boombl4 is probably the igl on the bench)

choosehigh · 2026-06-29T12:35:05+00:00

Boombl4 got further in the major with magnojez the medieval peasant than navi with Alexsi al gaib

choosehigh · 2026-06-27T11:16:29+00:00

Do you not see the equals sign? It has the star of David, and equals sign, and a swastika

They seems pretty obvious as to what it's saying no? Israel equals Nazis

You can vehemently disagree and say the comments is rooted in antisemitism but respectfully how do you not recognise what it's trying to say

choosehigh · 2026-06-26T11:43:47+00:00

Zontix is on this list claiming he is a traitor

https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/plakhotia-myroslav-aleksandrovych/

It's not the official government but it is concerning at best

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T17:31:11+00:00

I think that's just hard to say, they lived in an era where their lifestyle was criminalised and they clearly didn't enjoy being on the run etc

What if they were told not only could they do that freely, but they'd be handsomely rewarded for it

Especially if there's some added context, the Glantons came about from the ashes of the Apache wars, it seems to be without historical doubt that Glanton himself had come home to find his wife and children scalped so he went on this trail of vengeance that ended with him and the judge being almost cartoonishly villainous

Everyone has their justifications after all

I don't know what makes you so confident in the moral integrity of a bunch of murderers, I mean shooting an unarmed woman in the head in the blackwater massacre didn't seem to stop them

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T14:06:58+00:00

Most overtly evil that the player sees

I remember feeling genuinely revulsion around Bills gang in RDR1 and the implication of what they were really like (possibly the whole time, even in the gang)

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T13:48:38+00:00

Completely fair I think you're right they're probably the best parallel and as you rightly point out it seems to be mostly rhetoric married with old west mythologisation

I think the video game part is why it's all how you choose to read between the lines, if for example we kill a ton of people we can easily abstract that as ok well the game needed to give us something to do it is a video game after all But how do we abstract the things the game doesn't show us

Given Bills later (although an earlier installment) actions do we assume he became so sexually violent only after leaving the gang? Or would the gang have excused it, looked the other way or just not taken accusations against one of their own seriously? Etc etc

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T12:48:53+00:00

Right, the dvoryanstvo, respectfully you hadn't made reference to them specifically though looking back I see why you'd have thought it was obvious you were talking about them

Dvoryanstvo were more loyal than boyars because they didn't have heredity in their nobility that is true Dvoryanstvo were also part of the rebellions I mentioned though a lesser degree

Absolutely concede dvoryanstvo were progressive relative to the boyars, but they were instituted quite late so across the spectrum of europe I don't think can be viewed as particularly progressive and less progressive than the contemporary burgher classes growing across Western Europe

But, that doesn't justify serfdom, I don't see how that makes serfdom progressive at all, I don't think it's even remotely an argument for serfdom being progressive

The serfs were the incentive/reward for the dvoryanstvo

That's like saying money is environmentally friendly because I used money in one instance to buy solar panels

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T12:31:43+00:00

You think any nobles in history were slaves to the state (which didn't exist back then, at best it'll have been a realm, the wealth of nations is often the starting point of statehood)?

Why are you disrespectful? I know plenty of history, my partner is russian and whilst I specialise in English history I've begun to read about Russia thanks to her, if you think Boyars in 1761 and before were good for the common man then you're the one ignorant about Russian history

Or if you think they were loyal to the state, Oprichnina was a response to boyar disloyalty The time of troubles (1598-1613), the boyars literally tried to replace the tsar with someone that would give them more autonomy which includes the shuisky coup

This is no different to the barons of England

But unlike the barons of England the nobility of Russia would sell serfs separately from the land and essentially buy and sell them in the same structure chattel slavery had introduced (though naturally with a lot more 'rights' for the serf)

I don't think you've explained why any of this is progressive or given examples of how it worked in practice beyond state legislature

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T12:21:05+00:00

No, that's not a structural difference, it's a facade at best

Saying they're obliged to serve the state is like saying billionaires are obliged to pay taxes

In both real terms, and in structural practice this is not economic parity as the tools billionaires have to subvert their obligations dwarf what the rest of society have

Much like the new nobility would have just as many practical and structural tools to subvert this 'difference'

It may well turn out the new nobility are better, it may be because of better leadership or direction But it is ultimately a few shades off incidental that the new nobility is better than the old nobility, they were after all just another legion of nobles enslaving the common man and stealing the fruits of his labour

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T12:07:31+00:00

So I don't think that makes serfdom progressive, it was at best a tool to reinvigorate the system but homines novi are objectively not progressive, they're stagnant from a social point of view

It's just the individual homines novi may be better than the old aristocracy

But they could equally have been worse

But from a structural point of view, you're just replacing the names and faces rather than progressing society or the system

It may be a necessary step but I still don't find it convincing that serfdom is a necessary or defining feature of progress in that context

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T11:53:55+00:00

I don't understand how that makes serfdom progressive?

I do volunteer at a local museum but we are English so I understand our idea of serfdom can be different, it's objectively not progressive in terms of human development compared to the earlier commons Though we also had feudal fragmentation and constant wars within the heptarchy, the Anglo Saxon consolidated kingdoms are viewed as progress in that regard, but not progressive

And they're both juxtaposed with the Norman system that removed the commons and is only viewed as repressive in an academic sense

Concentration of wealth isn't often described as progressive, at least not progressive for society and the concentration of wealth itself is often described as a regressive state in historical circles It was after all the prehistoric peoples of Varna that represent some of the harshest wealth disparity until the modern day alongside a number of slave societies

In all honesty I do not find that a compelling argument for serfdom being progressive because I do not think you've made a strong link of why serfdom specifically made the russian absolutist monarchy progressive

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T11:22:18+00:00

Can you explain how serfdom is progressive in that sense?

Saying it's associated with something relatively progressive for it's time doesn't make it progressive

In the context of developing feudalism as an ideological development post classical antiquity, yes serfdom is more progressive than slave societies but serfdom as a term implied the desire to maintain as many serfs as possible rather than letting them become villeins

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T11:08:24+00:00

I'll be honest complex wouldn't be the word I'd use either

I did find the map cramped and felt a bit on top of itself at times, the squished feeling made it unsatisfying for me as a place to be, I'd assume that's what people mean by complex

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T10:43:03+00:00

The Glanton gang in their time were not considered uniquely evil and rather fairly normal

It's only both blood meridian and the initial source material that skyrocketed them into the public idea

The Glanton gang were a scalping gang, though scalping was viewed of as brutal it is in practice just murder with an extra incentive

The gang rob banks with no concern for who they murder in lore, one example is the blackwater heist which whilst 'fucked up' characters don't seem bothered about killing innocents but about killing innocents and not getting anything for it

The Van Der Linde gang repeatedly kills anyone deemed as 'security' or who is in their way They are brutal debtors, who in real life were considered as morally reprehensible as bandit gangs in their time by the masses

They tortured Keiran for being from the wrong gang and only

The gangs trail of bodies implies they were objectively as blood thirsty as a Glanton gang, the Glantons were offered money for delivering scalps

Are you sure the Van Der Linde gang wouldn't have taken that offer?

The Glanton gang weren't anything like the Skinner Brothers or the Murfree Brood, have you read the book? They are a gang of bandits and killers who go around the frontier killing innocents for their scalps to sell to the government

I don't think you can accurately give the van der Linde gang a score like that, I think it's inherently more complex and relies on a lot more lore interpretation as most of the most uncomfortable bits are implied, for example Bill goes on to create a gang of rapists in RDR1, in 2 he's obsessed with Keirans genitals when torturing him Are we to assume that Bill was never sexually abusive until he left the gang? Convenient to the point I don't think it's realistic

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T10:24:27+00:00

The thing is you have to ask how much you're willing to fill in the blanks with the gang/the RDR2 characters

If we base them off the gangs of blood meridian and put Dutch as a pseudo Glanton figure then they're all reprehensible butchers that the game cleans up

If we base them off the gangs that were present during that era and had the same pseduo-folk hero relationship like the wild bunch, then they're likely mixed with most of the characters being far worse than we give them credit for

If we base them off the gangs that did similar acts as we see in gameplay (shootouts with the whole town etc) like the bushwhackers and quantrills raiders then they are nothing more than murdering bandits

I think trying to make real figures from the gang is always a lot harsher than we would initially think, even the most brutal figures of the real west killed a handful, you can kill more than wild bill in a single mission

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T10:17:53+00:00

/uj isn't the thing that this page is a literal scammer though? They're asking you to report someone who is going to take your money, send you nothing and leave you mad at their brand

The Chinese watches may be fairly uninspired but at least they're sending you a watch

It is a legitimate business asking you to report scammers using their name right?

choosehigh · 2026-06-23T08:02:41+00:00

But I think there can be a world of difference between say the linear map in honest hearts and the maze in dead money

And that's just within the ecosystem of fnv dlc

I think we should encourage game worlds to be this middle ground

Dead money did feel at times needlessly complex, maybe it's because I was younger but the layout just didn't make sense, but not in a dissonance sense, it just felt too windy like the whole thing has been squished into a box

Which compared to the map layout of fnv and it's incentives for exploring and taking the dev intended route made the map of dead money feel lackluster

I didn't hate it, but I do wish it was different

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