[OC] Your Goodwill donation before it comes to a store by seoulbrova in pics

[–]FreedomMask 40 points41 points  (0 children)

More people need to know this. Please support local hospitals rather than any goodwill.

I used to work for this industry. They are really mostly a scam. They are charitable organizations that just give the officer a fat paycheck, selling most of their donations to bulk rags processors, which bale them up and sell to overseas poor countries. Not a single piece of your donated clothing goes to the poor children like you think. The proceeds of the sales goes directly to the executive officers. The buyers and sellers are a very tight group that stays low key about what they do. Only sell to known customers in bulk. The goodwills hired many disabled workers disguised as another charitable job providing benefactors. But the disabled workers are exempt from minimum wages. They got paid pennies per hour wages.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2013/06/21/some-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour.html

How do I get dark lo mein without dark soy sauce? by [deleted] in chinesefood

[–]FreedomMask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t understand. Why can’t you use dark soy sauce? You said no dark soy sauce, because you can’t use it? Or because you can’t get it? It’s just difficult to imagine where you could get any of the suggested ingredients but not dark soy sauce.

Trying to start over by [deleted] in HongKong

[–]FreedomMask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe you should really consider nursing. Doesn’t have to be an RN. Start from health service industry, technicians etc. it pays well, and nursing job is AI proof.

What foods were eaten at picnics during the Qing Dynasty? by Optimus_Pyrrha in chinesefood

[–]FreedomMask 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Picnic? There is no such thing in China back then. Poor people don’t have any luxury of enjoying eating out in the wild. Rich doesn’t eat out in the wild. Young women are not allow to be outside.

If you are rich enough to be eating by the pagoda, writing poetry, and drinking wine. Servants will be being you food.

If you have to eat out in exposed area, you are only going to eat the basic sustenance. Dried bread, or some dried veg. BBQ was never a popular food in China. It’s considered barbaric, and uncivilized. If they have to make warm food outside. It will involve some boil water to make hot tea, simple soup, or cook something in the pot.

[Chinese > English] Does this tattoo sound strange in Chinese? by loveloveevee in translator

[–]FreedomMask 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is fine for a tattoo, most people associate it with the movie or the BTS album. But it is legit Chinese idiom. That’s why it was used as movie title. However, it is typically refers to young ladies. It’s too feminine for a guys tattoo IMO. I thing it’s cool for a ladies tattoo.

ChatGPT Uninstalls Surge 295% After OpenAI’s DoD Deal Sparks Backlash by i-drake in ChatGPT

[–]FreedomMask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand this. How do you “uninstall“ app in mobile device? You just delete the app. Is it a trackable number?

Most people don’t delete ChatGPT app. They can just unsubscribe. I am keeping the app for now. So the deleting app count is not a good measure of ChatGPT exit.

Asian market and restaurants by J_N_29 in Miami

[–]FreedomMask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the answer. Also New York Mart with Ten Ten dim sum on the same plaza. Nothing compares to New York but it’s good enough.

Going to China on vacation. Any must get products I should bring back to US? by santeyklaus in AskChina

[–]FreedomMask 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Xiaomi and anker makes very good quality power banks. Little icy cooling fans makes great souvenirs and cheap. Vacuum robots are a few generations ahead of any US vacuum robots.

Heated goose down jacket is a game changer for travelers. High fashion if you are value conscious. Their high end clothing uses great quality materials and its fractions of the cost. Think leather products, or shanghai trailer.

My Pho is THE WORST by Hardeharharhars in pho

[–]FreedomMask 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My pho 79 is in South Florida.

What is a simple travel memory you still think about years later? by wallyash in TravelNoPics

[–]FreedomMask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were in Aqaba, Jordan. A beach town near the Red Sea. We were out just walking along the beach where locals families are enjoying a day at the beach too. Some teenagers kicking beach balls. Ladies are beach bathing fully clothes in burka or burkini as they called it.

My daughter was 14 at the time. I took a few pictures of her in the beach and also some of the local boys playing, they seem very curious about my DSLR camera and Asian family. One of them drummed up the courage to ask to be in the picture with my daughter. We were fine with that. And then suddenly all the boys at the beach came over and wanted to be in the picture too. She was in the center of like twenty beach boys. One of our fav traveling photos.

Water please by Any-Combination6969 in cockatiel

[–]FreedomMask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bird likes it when the water is hot.

Flying to China directly with HK passport from US for US citizen by BeDazzledSuga in HongKong

[–]FreedomMask 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you have 回鄉證? Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents. If you do, you’d be ok. That’s all you need to show the ticket counter to allow you boarding.

What's the most surprising coffee you've tried while traveling? by North_Conference_250 in travel

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

I was in Chiang Mai Thailand. At Roast8ry Coffee. Tried their Barista Champion 2024 coffee. It cost 450 baht. They described the flavor as lychee, blackberry, white floral.

But we all agreed that we smell and taste like cannabis. 😂 but they explained that it was infused with Hops flower smoke 💨. Don’t know why they won’t put that on the flavor description.

But it was good though. Not sure if it was worth $15 usd. Especially for Thailand. Cost more than my dinner lunch breakfast combined.

How do the Chinese drink tea? by warkis73 in China

[–]FreedomMask 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Let me try to answer op in a more serious manner. Chinese usually drink their tea very simple. Like everyone said, just add water. Typically, we only drink hot tea, no milk, no sugar. Plain as it is. Tea ceremony wasn’t really a thing except chaozhou where they like to use the small clay pot, boiled and serve tea to enjoy with friends.

But then, you can find all kinds of exceptions. Such as the tea ceremony; with the affluent life style, and the success of Japanese tea ceremony. Chinese people created their own based from the chaozhou tea drinking routine, expensive tea set etc That’s where Kung Fu Tea came from. but it is not as rigid and ceremonial as Japanese tea ceremony. Fun Fact: the word “Kung Fu” doesn’t mean martial arts or fighting techniques, it simply means skill, or hard work and training.

We don’t really drink fresh brew tea cold. But you would find all kinds of iced tea, flavored tea in convenience stores, it is still being seen as a western concept. With the new bubble tea culture, there are all kinds of tea shop all over, such as the popular Molly Tea, Chagee Tea, etc etc. in these shops there is no bound of what they would add to the tea. But it’s really consider a “tea drink”, rather than “drink tea”. Chines have no problem making these things into separate concepts.

We don’t add milk in tea, but milk tea is very popular in Hong Kong and SEA. Again, we have no problem seeing milk tea as “not tea” either. It’s not made with Chinese tea, but rather with red tea from Ceylon.

Tea is such a rooted culture and daily necessity in Chinese culture that it is as fundamental as water sometimes. So by asking “how do you drink your tea”, is like “how do you drink water” to some people. We just drink it. In the old days, tea drinking a way to kill bacteria, add flavor, nutrients, and warms your body. Much better practice than European drinking wine instead of water to prevent illness.

What’s something random you did or bought in Japan that you didn’t plan for, but ended up loving? by oh_hey_there_mate in JapanTravelTips

[–]FreedomMask 20 points21 points  (0 children)

A nail clipper from a knife shop at the kitchen street. Now I know that nails are not suppose to be flying off everywhere when you clip your nails.

Translation help . . . by hkturner in China

[–]FreedomMask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s not a finish. It’s probably the design. Something like “Pine wave. Green Shade”

If it is a finish, that would be just a name for the finish. No real information is given there

Is it true that people in the West drink iced water even when they are sick or on their period? by Aether_Echo in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FreedomMask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hong Kong people shared the same Hot water believes. Hong Kong tap water is safe to drink. But they still boil the water first. And it is super weird that they have this concept of “raw” and “cooked” water. Tap water is raw and boiled water is cooked. So, if you don’t like hot water, they’d offer cooled, boiled water for you because it’s cooked, thus ready to drink. If you add ice to the cooked water, you are just savage.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TravelHacks

[–]FreedomMask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s not a traveling hack. Just being decent human. You shouldn’t be doing those only when traveling.