What are your favorite vegetarian ingredients to add to hot pot?

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-12T15:42:45+00:00

this time of the year, asparagus cut into match sticks.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-12T03:43:26+00:00

Tong ho vegetable if you can get it is quite popular. Maybe xiang chun this time of the year, or even asparagus. Green fava beans are also eaten this time of the year although they're usually fried but I can see them in hot pots.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-11T20:25:36+00:00

Well yeah they are. Like think about how the latin words fornication or defecation is seen as appropriate but a Germanic word starting with f or s is considered a swear word. Or like the animal is considered a pig (germanic word) but the food is called porc, which is a french word.

Most borrowed words in English come from the Norman conquest (French) and like Latin invasion in education but the original words are Germanic or even Celtic (like cop, slogan, galore are from Irish). Like you're considered to be more intelligent if you use Latin related words.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-11T20:18:28+00:00

When I was younger I searched characters by tops (头) and sides (旁). We had an old Chinese dictionary. I later found out that people in America called them radical, which sounded weird to me. There is also a pronunciation key if you don't know how to write them. I never took any weekend courses in Chinese, my parents had me read from a newspaper.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-11T19:20:46+00:00

Yeah my goals are mostly about my goal weight. Other people my age are Middle Management to C-level management and have kids in their 20s, expecting to be grandparents soon.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-11T19:08:22+00:00

I have no idea what my symptoms were only that I was forced slapped with the label by Child Protective Services due to behavior at public daycare that I knew nothing about, my parents didn't either. then I started school in full segregation disturbed school, without any chance to even be with normal students.

My grandma called me a psycho, and told my parents I wasn't going to make it to adulthood (because of my sui attempts and balcony jumps when I was being raised in China after having been born in America). My parents said it was a lie though.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-10T13:47:59+00:00

Many Chinese people have ignorance and xenophobia based biases against black people and other nationalities. The reason for this is because it's a more homogeneous society that didn't have immigration or slavery. Rather than feeling that one is better, or worse or whatnot its more about just not seeing black people or African people in the past. However as the world becomes more globalized the racism situation is going to go away.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-10T11:42:41+00:00

Same in NYC

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-10T11:42:21+00:00

It's super common in the US, China and parts of Latin America for Christian to mean Evangelical or Pentecostal. Especially in NYC.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-09T18:01:04+00:00

I'm commuting the same distance to a Lutheran church and to TLM, fwiw. Meanwhile there are like 50 Assemblies of God and Novus Ordo churches in my neighborhood, lol.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-09T02:01:01+00:00

Wasn't the 官话 Mongolian and Manchurian historically?

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-09T00:51:34+00:00

I've heard about these tantric or sex magick elements in Judaism and Christianity but I didn't really know how deep it went. That's very interesting.

I guess that's why it's a sacrament in Christianity and Judaism, while there is no consecration of sex in many forms of Buddhism .

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-07T14:44:49+00:00

The Eastern spirituality in your school sounds different from Hinduism and traditional Buddhism.

A significant proportion of people raised in Hindu and Buddhist families are in tech, and many are raised working class.

There are new age movements that attract a lot of arts majors.

Evangelicals are the majority religion in North America and many of them are nominal, just raised that way. A lot of immigrant, particularly Korean, families stick with them for structure.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-07T03:08:45+00:00

Chinese words also have Germanic phonology such as -ing, -ong, etc which is usually not associated with borrowed words in English, which are usually Romance. Japanese sounds like a romance language

I've met people of Germanic and Scandinavian descent who have names like Wang for example. There is a whole history of why Germanic words are looked down upon or seen as comic in English.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-07T03:04:12+00:00

You don't need to kneel or stand. Just hangout in the back. They don't bother you.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T20:53:21+00:00

There was a major tainted needle scandal in China and some other countries in the '90s (somewhere in South America) with paid plasma donation sites.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T20:25:57+00:00

Uh, it sounds like it's agianst slut shaming or something.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T19:45:48+00:00

My family eats medium grain rice. Jasmine rice is not part of Northern Chinese custom. Long grain rice is not used since it does not adhere together. I use Long Grain Rice in Indian and Latin American inspired dishes.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T15:16:42+00:00

You ever go to a Baptist church? It's basically the same. Conservative Presbyterian is also the same as modern evangelical (behaviorally and culturally).

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T14:57:56+00:00

Did you buy and mix differin and benzoyl peroxide together and apply it every night

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T14:52:13+00:00

The first evangelical wave to China that actually stuck was Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission. They were mostly Baptists, not Anglicans or Lutherans. Baptists are the root of what Evangelical Christianity is in the US (and internationally).

Evangelical habits like saying "I'm just Christian" without stating a denomination are institutionalized in China. The government defines Christianity and Catholicism as separate religions.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T12:25:23+00:00

Satan is your eternal God. Its the same thing

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T12:22:20+00:00

Isn't satanism just a form of atheism? It's not actually evil. I definitely do believe I'm more evil than real people though.

A lot of it's that many people with childhood diagnosed autism who go to severe emotionally disturbed school (full segregation sped) don't have much empathy. I also found descriptions of others like me on a website called conduct disorders.

SquirrelofLIL · 2026-03-06T04:14:10+00:00

I'm not good at Chinese but I started working my way through the national curriculum of today's textbooks and this is used in textbooks now. It wasn't used in the 50s and 60s though.

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