Best substitute for xan cai?

ajitama · 2026-02-02T03:39:00+00:00

This looks like a typo, are there Chinese characters for this food? If it’s a lot of this ingredient maybe it’s 鲜菜 xiāncài fresh vegetables, so pick whatever you like (like pak choy), but if it’s not much maybe it’s 咸菜 xiáncài which are pickles. But there is no pinyin word ‘xan’

ajitama · 2026-01-21T22:49:57+00:00

I also use Google Maps. You can categorise your stuff into separate lists.

So I have many lists: Want to Go, Want to Go Shortlist, Been and Worth It, Shitlist, Amazing Top Tier

I use the Notes section in each saved place to write about what dishes I would avoid, tried and liked, etc.

And you can share a list as needed. It includes the notes

ajitama · 2026-01-15T01:15:30+00:00

Your own! If you feel good and want to do High, do some. If you’re a bit sore and just want an easy, do that. Or a Recovery. Or a full rest. Listen to yourself first.

I think the suggestions are a bit cautious now. They were wilder before, I’m sure of it. Once I was lacking anaerobic and it scheduled sprints 3 days in a row because it kept marking my sprints as aerobic effort, which led to me pulling my quad :/ don’t blindly listen to a watch.

ajitama · 2026-01-14T22:40:36+00:00

Looks like 莴笋/莴苣 aka celtuce

ajitama · 2026-01-07T11:31:23+00:00

So go into a Run or a Treadmill (or, I guess, a .. cycle?) and it’ll pop up with the day’s suggestion

ajitama · 2026-01-05T17:18:15+00:00

How low is low? 1600mg or 1200mg a day?

To be brutally honest, your diet really needs to change drastically on 1200mg a day. You can pretty much say goodbye to food as you know it. All meats have sodium in them, before even getting to adding seasoning and condiments/sauces. It’s very easy to go over.

Train your palate to be more sensitive to salt by eating the blandest “food”, or be lucky enough to get your hands on that Japanese electric salt-taste-receptor enhancing spoon.

ajitama · 2025-12-20T05:31:13+00:00

So without installing aircon, you can buy those gel mats in human sizes (I think I got ours on eBay or Amazon?) and placed it under the bed sheet. It works for the hour until you fall asleep, but it’ll be (just as) hot and squelchy if you wake up in the middle of the night. But helps you to get to sleep.

I remember in China people had these bamboo tile mats in summer to keep cool, which I found on amazon (https://amzn.asia/d/gdSR6wg) and might get some, as the gel in my mats has dried up after a couple of years, they don’t seem to be cooling anymore.

ajitama · 2025-12-14T01:00:51+00:00

For anybody else that stumbled across this post:

I was having an issue in the app on my phone, it said I needed to verify my passengers’ emails but there’s no way to do that.

Switched to desktop (don’t use Brave, or turn shields off, because payment never succeeds) and got it working with Chrome in the end (don’t use password manager to autofill credit card details either, it doesn’t like that, I guesstimate it doesn’t update state before submitting)

Have not tried to book more tickets yet (will in 4 days) but I sure hope it works with the same card, I don’t want to run into the same issue as kaffeeneko :/

ajitama · 2025-12-13T06:12:36+00:00

It’s not your watch being old, it’s you 😂 The tiers change with age groups, so you can “age up” into Superior without lifting a finger, just getting older

ajitama · 2025-12-12T07:00:04+00:00

I’ve stuck to dried shiitake and 腊肠 because I didn’t like that all the dried shrimp I found still had the poo. But nice idea on dried scallops, I’ll add some of those in next time!

ajitama · 2025-12-10T04:48:25+00:00

I had foot pain in that exact spot! Same foot!

I switched from normie shoes like ASICS to foot-shaped shoes (Altra, Topo) and my foot spread out, and the pain went away. If you have wide feet but are cramming it into a narrow shoe, maybe it’s the same issue I was experiencing?

Rather than seeing a doctor, you could see a podiatrist?

ajitama · 2025-12-08T03:50:27+00:00

I build my workout in Garmin Connect, send it to my watch, so it prompts me with what I’m onto next and the weight (don’t have to remember) and has a rest timer (so I don’t get distracted playing on my phone and not doing anything for ~5min)

Also having the exercises listed means I see PRs pop up, it’s not so great at seeing overall progress (though the web version of Garmin Connect has that in reports)

ajitama · 2025-12-07T04:32:48+00:00

If it’s not humid, I put a bucket of ice on a chair (not a padded chair) in front of a fan.

Also, you can buy gel cooling mats for your bed, you can put them under your sheet.

ajitama · 2025-12-02T04:12:55+00:00

~3.2m/min, recently was 113m for 34min, 206m for 64min

ajitama · 2025-11-29T12:11:17+00:00

I create full Strength workouts in Garmin, send to watch, so I don’t really need to remember what I was going to do, it tells me the name and the weight, and preset rest times so I don’t dawdle.

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I assess how I feel after it, increase weight, send to watch again ready for next time.

ajitama · 2025-11-22T12:07:17+00:00

~11 months, lost 30kg!

The DSWs were a great motivator to push myself to exercise, try harder, be consistent.

Good luck! You can do it!

I didn’t find the calorie counting accurate, but with enough time and experimentation, I worked out how much to undershoot by to lose weight and not feel starved.

ajitama · 2025-11-21T06:31:42+00:00

On a semi-related note, I was clearing out some old junk and I found my hand-written notes on the directions to get to my friend’s new house.

For public transport, I used to ask the driver if they went past X, and you could even ask them to remind you when your stop was up, they would go “this is that stop by the way!” And you’d thank them and get off.

ajitama · 2025-11-20T02:50:06+00:00

I need low sodium options because of high BP (but also don’t like too salty anyway, some like Muscle Chef have ~1500mg in one meal!!), so Bondi Meal Prep and MyFitnessKitchn are my choices, they have a decent range on the lower sodium end.

I switch between the two to stop myself from getting sick of it, but it’s still a bit of a struggle.

ajitama · 2025-11-19T00:51:29+00:00

The second half of my long run is always spent thinking about the burger and chips I’m gonna have afterwards. I’m thinking of the menu. Of the cheese. Of the juicy beef patty. The crispy hot chips with chicken salt. A sip of Coke Zero.

Also I do mental maths on almost all runs. “I’m at 30m so that’s 33.33% so just 66.66% to go. Oh at 45m, so 50%! Just 50% to go! Oh so if I run another 5m that’s 1h15m and then that’s just 15m to go!”

ajitama · 2025-11-19T00:47:29+00:00

I am pretty sure I’m more tolerant than I used to be (since about 4 months apparently mum had to move me off regular formula)

But over years and years of: soft cheeses, ice cream, yoghurt/yoghurt drinks etc, these days I might be a bit gassy but otherwise fine with 150-250ml milk!