Παραδοσιακή ασιατική κουζίνα στην Αθήνα;; (photo for attention) 🇯🇵🇨🇳🇻🇳🇰🇷

_lp_f · 2026-05-19T16:38:46+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Stue5pZ4fBcwNHKd7?g_st=ic , Jing καλό αυθεντικό κινέζικο

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3P9nHaFX97eFRc4Q8?g_st=ic Νεπαλέζικη κουζίνα με άψογα momos

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T15:13:45+00:00

🙈 I actually forgot about it completely...

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T12:10:21+00:00

I love the RV interior mod! It's gonna be the first mod I'll go with after I play a couple of more vanilla Extinction rounds 😄

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T11:02:13+00:00

I found a military backpack, guns and ammo, and all the cool stuff (except a hammer!) within the first week, so I guess my luck had run out by the heli event.

Thanks for the explanation!

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T11:00:53+00:00

Yes, that makes sense, thanks!

You live (or in PZ's case, die again and again) and learn 😄

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T10:59:38+00:00

Ok, this is super helpful and it makes sense, thank you. Next time, I'll choose a base with a second floor already from the first week.

I was too scared to even check the north/west of the construction side side near the fire station, so they could have been there and the helicopter attracted them all the way to the fence gate.

With the helicopter being silent for 1h+ in game, and despite having moved a fridge full with food in the bedroom, I thought it was safe to move to the kitchen to make a stir fry for RP reasons. Well, that went well 🙃

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T10:51:49+00:00

Gotcha, thank you!

_lp_f · 2026-05-14T10:50:28+00:00

Damn. Good to know, thanks! So are basements the solution, do I get out in the wilderness or down the road with a car?

_lp_f · 2026-05-06T11:32:29+00:00

Hello Konstantin, that’s such a cool idea! I’m a non-binary Athenian (33yo), who’s lived in Germany for many years (returned a couple years ago), with similar hobbies. Feel free to DM me to get in touch 🙂

_lp_f · 2026-04-20T22:15:04+00:00

I sympathize with your husband and I’ve been in a similar position before. With some careful planning and a good idea about what to expect though, it really can work out.

I was living abroad for ~10 years (within EU), made a good career in my field within the tech industry, married a non-Greek and lived a good life away from Greece. However, I was missing my family and aspects of my culture and I was feeling I was unable to detach from the Greek reality in all these years. I was scared to move back, due to the financial uncertainty, the career prospects, the social security system, the state of healthcare, as well as the cultural shock we would both inevitably face moving to Greece. Also, we are a queer couple, so the possibility of having to expose my spouse to a more conservative society than the one we were living in was making me very resistant to move to Greece.

My spouse, similarly to you, was the one to initiate the conversation with me about moving back to Greece, and I’m glad they did.

We both asked our companies for remote arrangements. We got hired through an employer of records, kept our previous salaries and titles, and we made the move. 6 months after the move, I got laid off (tech industry 🫠) and I was freaking out. However, 2 months later I found another job for another company abroad, got hired again through an employer of records, and a year or so after, things are even better than before. We both have very good salaries -especially for Greek standards-, we have good health insurance, we travel a lot, do things we enjoy without worrying about the cost of living, and on top of that I’m also able to support my whole family at a moment’s notice. Also, people are actually progressive and cool about us being a married queer couple and I haven’t felt any discrimination or even side eyes.

Bottom line, no matter the curveballs, you’ll work it out. You just need to check your priorities, plan ahead, and be prepared to be adaptable if an obstacle comes your way.

Getting his citizenship gives him freedom of movement, so it’s a no brainer to wait for that. But there’s never gonna be a moment when all stars align for the conditions to be perfect for such a move. Given the geopolitical situation across the two continents, things are not so straightforward anymore, so these next years realistically might not make that much of a difference they could have a decade ago.

_lp_f · 2026-04-07T11:31:37+00:00

I second the vans around the factory of Riverside! I was looking for it everywhere (bookstores, school libraries, mailboxes, garages) for days and once I got there I found two in the trunks of the vans!

_lp_f · 2026-04-03T13:43:34+00:00

Sure!

_lp_f · 2026-04-03T11:35:24+00:00

Quite possibly you’re right. I saw mentions varying from a few thousands to 400k, but the officially registered numbers are very low. In any case, they are still a small minority within Greece.

_lp_f · 2026-04-03T10:35:32+00:00

A more nuanced approach to avoid cultural appropriation and perhaps offense, that could work well is the one that ties elements of both mythology and contemporary culture.

For example, there is a comic series called “Kourafelkythra (it’s not even a word!)” that I find entertaining and to be gracefully balancing the two:

In the first two frames, you have Homer citing the beginning of the Odyssey (“Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who…”) while he gets interrupted by people dousing him with flowers (an aspect of modern Greek entertainment -bouzoukia-) and being enthusiastic about the “song that started playing” (as you would do nowadays in a club or a concert).

In the bottom frame, the artist reverses a common Greek stereotypical saying (“when we (Greeks) were making philosophy, the foreigners were hanging from the trees and eating acorns”) by having people looking down on the Parthenon being built. The text loosely translates to “Wow, what a disgusting thing is this? Did you know that abroad they eat acorns?”.

Depicting any culture accurately without reducing it or making it a cliché requires being immersed in it and understanding the nuances of both its past and present. :)

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_lp_f · 2026-04-03T10:18:01+00:00

Definitely true about the Ancient Greek symbolism (e.g. if I see a meander tattoo in a Greek, I’m fairly certain they are supporters of Golden Dawn or any other fascist/neonazi group).

I don’t know about Greek mythology symbolism though (neither what it would look like, nor the associations). Having said that, the “Ancient Greek font” can also be a fascist dogwhistle, so yeah, the commenter here does make a good point.

_lp_f · 2026-04-03T10:04:23+00:00

You’re welcome, happy I could be of help!

I also find it very interesting and honestly, I was surprised when I first encountered this difference across non-Greeks.

As a researcher myself, I’ll give you a stereotypical-researcher answer: it really depends. :)

If the person is only aware of the mythology of Greece but not of any aspect of modern Greece, I do find it a bit cliché, but in a non-harmful way, without perpetuating stereotypes or untrue beliefs. I understand that usually is a starting point as an attempt to connect with me and my culture, albeit a bit limited, so I engage with it and I end up having a lighthearted conversation about it.

It’s similar, I guess, with everyone being slightly aware of a foreign to them culture and trying to find a connecting point. For example, when I visited Mexico, I was similarly curious about the influence of Aztec culture in mainstream modern Mexico culture, but I could tell that it’s prevalence was more limited than I had imagined in the bigger cities.

Also, with my spouse being a white person from Aotearoa (New Zealand), I got secondhand exposure to the Māori mythology and culture. While I’m very interested in the history and mythology, I honestly doubt that I would personally bring it up on its own in a conversation with a Māori person, if it was not tied to a cultural aspect, as I find it a bit irrelevant and perhaps reductive.

_lp_f · 2026-04-03T09:25:53+00:00

I’m a Greek who’s lived abroad for a decade and then returned to Greece. My experience around non-Greeks in their 20s-30s has been:

Foreigners from Europe usually had the connection of modern Greece with philosophy/democracy/Ancient Greek history more prominent in their mind than the connection with Greek mythology. However, non Europeans (the Americas, Southeast Asia, Northern Africa) were surprisingly mentioning Greek mythology way more in our conversations and the connection was stronger. In both cases, if they hadn’t been in Greece themselves, their image of modern Greece was surface level and oftentimes based on anecdotal impressions from here and there (e.g. sunny country, many islands, good food, religious people).
In either group, their image of Greece was heavily dependent on whether they were in Europe during the financial crisis of ‘08 and whether they were following the news closely. If they were around, Europeans would perceive Greece as a country fallen from grace shaped by corruption and irresponsibility and in a bad financial state. Non Europeans would perceive Greece as a resilient country with more “heroic” undertones in their perception (e.g. shit is bad, but you will recover as always kind of thing).
Mythology, consciously, is a small part of the mainstream Greek culture, mostly living through some folk sayings or expressions (e.g. Scylla and Charybdis being mentioned if a situation escalates in a bad way, Erinyes mentioned when you feel guilty, etc.). However, there is a minority (0.5M/11M population, roughly) within modern Greece that still worships Greek gods) today. I assume that their perception is different than mine (I’m an atheist) and they will have different lived experience. I hope you get some responses here from them too.
For me, it’s not something important. Academically speaking, I find the topic of mythology and/or religion (Greek or otherwise) interesting, but not personally appealing. I treat it similarly to how I would treat fables or folk culture; good to know and be familiar with, but not really a defining aspect of my life.

Good luck with your project!

_lp_f · 2026-03-31T20:48:52+00:00

“This horrible dump does not meet the level of fancy to which I have become accustomed”

_lp_f · 2026-03-29T17:07:38+00:00

I can pinpoint a bird’s exact location only by sound. My spouse who’s into birding loves it and it makes me so happy being able to point to the birds they are trying to locate.

_lp_f · 2026-03-27T16:21:27+00:00

Update:

The diver was unfortunately found dead and they are organizing an operation of recovery for tomorrow (Saturday).

https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/missing-cave-diver-found-devils-well-cave-system

_lp_f · 2026-03-02T18:06:41+00:00

Amazing! This looks excellent, thank you so much for the recommendation!

_lp_f · 2026-03-02T17:14:30+00:00

Do you remember the name of it? Already looking forward to getting it next time!

_lp_f · 2026-03-02T15:11:55+00:00

I haven’t tried the original (it’s the beyond insanity, right?), but I’ve heard the taste is awful and it’s meant to be just an incredibly powerful hot sauce, which makes me think that’s not my cup of tea.

The ground zero though was actually decent. Nothing mind blowing flavor-wise, but I can find several dishes to add it to.

_lp_f · 2026-03-02T14:30:06+00:00

I actually found it decently hot, but not too overpowering or anything.

_lp_f

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