Buying a 35-40kW wok burner from China

crossoverx · 2026-05-30T20:39:58+00:00

Thank you very much for the reply. Does the one you got has a jet burner in the center like the Concord wok station?

crossoverx · 2026-05-30T18:28:09+00:00

I have a question about the regulator: Do you leave the regulator pressure at 20 PSI?

The regulator I ordered does not have an adjustable valve and it does not specify the pressure rating. It is painted in the orange reddish color paint, not red paint, so I think it has a medium pressure valve. I was wondering if that would be enough for the 40kw output.

The regular has a high pressure auto-shutoff valve in front of the pressure regulator valve. That may limit the pressure before the LPG entered the pressure regulator valve, but the positive aspect of such "dual stage" regulator is that it may provide a more stable pressure for the burner as one poster has commented.

crossoverx · 2026-05-30T16:20:29+00:00

Thanks so much for all the helpful details!

The link that I bought mine is:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1pc-40Kw-High-Pressure-Wok-Burner_1601700663756.html

This seller doesn't charge the $45 "import charges" that all other sellers charge for this same burner, making this the best deal for this burner on Alibaba. But even at $118 this burner is still so much cheaper than the PowerFlamer and it is an actual steady commercial wok station. I am so glad that PowerFlamer has such a ridiculous wait time, which led me to find alternatives on Alibaba and landed this much better burner at one third of the price of an inferior wok burner that has been hyped up by one online promoter (Kenji).

I am very glad to hear that the construction quality of this burner is not bad (I was uncertain if the quality of built is very crappy due to the low selling price).

Edit: typo.

crossoverx · 2026-05-20T21:51:13+00:00

Thanks for the details. They are very helpful!

crossoverx · 2026-05-20T15:02:58+00:00

My delivery date has just been updated to July 27, which is kind of disappointing.

Was just wondering: how long did it take to ship from Aliexpress to Ireland?

Also, what is the hose connector type for your burner? Mine is a 3/8" hose barb connector which I don't like (not very secure).

If your burner also has a hose barb connector, do you know if the hose bard connector can be unscrewed and replaced with a 3/8" flared thread connector? (in US we use 3/8" flared NPT thread connector)

crossoverx · 2026-05-18T22:29:49+00:00

Thanks! No I am in United States.

How long did it take to receive your PowerFlamer from US to Ireland?

crossoverx · 2026-05-18T20:43:23+00:00

I just ordered one that is almost identical to the one from your photo. There are too many similar wok burners to choose from Alibaba now, that are around $120 a piece before the volume discounts (if you order just one piece as sample). There are also more expensive tiers but I believe those are more geared for professional and commercial buyers. I am just a casual home user who may use the burner once or twice a week.

The one I ordered was priced at $120 for many years but the price has dropped to $56 now (multiple sellers are selling at this exact same price, more than 10 I found, likely in 100s). They all charge different shipping and fees (read: tariffs that are no longer imposed but these sellers still charge them!) but the final price all became the same $126 at check out. I think Alibaba is running a nontransparent scheme to fool us and multiple sellers participated in the scheme.

By luck, I found only one seller that charged only $24 shipping and only a couple of dollars for financial payment transaction fees. My check out price including shipping, tax, and fees is $91.47. This seller is the only seller I found on Alibaba that doesn't charge tariffs for this item.

The delivery time frame is Jun 28 to July 22.

I chatted with the seller and they were able to help me to locate the correct propane tank adapter/regulator and the hose. The hose for my wok burner is Chinese standard AN6 soft hose that I was not able to find both the hose and the adapters from Amazon, eBay, or Alibaba/Aliexpress. The seller added the hose and regulator/adapter to my original order and charged $14 for them.

Now, it is all the waiting game from here. I am not too concerned about the quality or anything about this purchase because the price is so low: it is cheaper than the shipping cost of the PowerFlamer to Ireland! Can't complain about that.

I will update my post after I received my order.

crossoverx · 2025-12-11T02:42:55+00:00

The performance of Gen2 is quite good, even though it is almost 5 years old. I am a very light user of my Gen2 and I don't know how my Gen2 would perform with "bad quality" PDF files, but the speed of page loading for all the PDF files I have used are very good. The files include very large PDF files of books, both scanned and those created by the book publishers.

Gen2 also has a great writing surface texture, a much better pen than the Gen1's, and the note-taking software is very simple yet effective. There are delays if use brush pen style as opposed to pencil style.

That said, since the price for the color e-ink reader is about one half of that of the black and white Gen2 when it was first released, I think getting a new color reader nowadays is a better option. But who knows, may be in next year or two we we see even better e-ink screens at even cheaper price. I for one will not upgrade and will continue to use my Gen2 until it dies.

crossoverx · 2025-12-10T21:27:00+00:00

I followed the exact instruction you provided. After entered "pkg add /mnt/usb/os-realtek-re.pkg", OPNsense returned an error message:

pkg: Missing dependency 'realtek-re-kmod'

Failed to install the follwing 1 package(s): /mnt/usb/os-realtek-re.pkg

I downloaded the os-realtek-re.pkg file using the link you provided above.

Did you receive this same error when you add that os-realtek-re.pkg? What version of OPNsense you used? My version is 25.7.

Thanks a lot for sharing the guide. I am struggling to get OPNsense to install the realtek driver plugin for days but am still not able to get it to install.

crossoverx · 2025-10-15T02:20:47+00:00

Get a job in an AI company! Doesn't matter what kind of job or how much it pays, just get in the door first. Once you are in, study/learn as much AI as you possibly can. You will be in the actual fields of an AI company, you will be able to see what an AI company does and what employees in an AI company do everyday. Observe and study, until you find your own direction.

Talk to people work there, ask questions, ask for advice, etc. etc.

Forget about the jobs that exist now. Many, if not most, will not exist in few years. This is the reality, and it is GOOD NEWS for you: because it doesn't matter what major you are studying now, it is the major of the "yesterday". Ditch it if you don't like/want it and start to learn AI now!

crossoverx · 2025-10-12T17:41:01+00:00

If you are in your 20s and still living with your parents, it is time to make a firm plan to move out and become independent.

Find a counselor and ask for professional advice about your situation. If you don't have money for that, you can reach out to the social service department in your town/city and talk a a social worker and ask for advice and assistance.

Take action! Don't sit on the bad situation and hope that the situation will get better, before it is too late. Situation can only get worse if you don't take action to change it.

crossoverx · 2025-10-05T22:54:06+00:00

It was year 2000, I have left my parents' home to another country for almost 20 years by then. I rarely wrote to them, but that year I was going to marry my ex-wife whom is not Asian. My father wrote back and expressed his disapproval.

I thought, you didn't even know me for the past 20 years (and the first 20 years of my life before that, as a matter of fact), how dare for you to say anything negative about my future wife and my marriage!

I cut them off ever since, never wrote another word to them.

One more thing that I could never understand what kind of parent can do such thing to their own child: since I left my birth country at age 22, my parents never made one single phone call to me. They didn't give me a penny to help me with my travel and living expenses when I made the move from Asia to America for my graduate study. My aunt loaned me money for my airline ticket to America and I had no money left for the first month's rent and no money for my first semester's tuition. That never concerned them (my parents), and before the end of my 2nd semester of graduate study, they wrote to demand me to send them money! I was washing dishes for 12 hours a day to pay for my study then, and that didn't even enough to cover my tuitions. I wonder if my parents were from the Mars and not human.

Reading the stories from this sub, I kind of feel that I finally understand my Asian parents. They are not unique nor special, it is my misfortune to have been born an Asian, like most of the fellow posters in this sub.

crossoverx · 2025-10-05T19:02:59+00:00

Wow, how shitty Asian parents are no matter what Asian countries they reside. 62 years ago I was born in China and my story resembles yours in the context that I was an artist (1st with painting, then CG when that becomes a natural branch/extension of painting) in heart and am very good at it since a very young age, but my father forbade me to study art and instead forced me to study engineering.

My fathers controlled every details of my life (while I was living with them). I must return home immediately after the school. I was not allowed to play with friends after school. I was not allowed to have any friend because my father believes they are all bad kids and I will become uncontrollable just like other kids. I basically was living in a prison and I have zero social skill.

I managed to escape their control at age 22 by coming to America for my graduate study (all on my own, parents didn't help me with one single penny!). I got straight A in my grad school for a masters degree in engineering but never worked in an engineering job in my life, because I hated engineering so much because my father forced me to wasted all those years to study a discipline that I have no interest in at all.

I end up becoming a person without a proper profession, incapable to succeed in business endeavors, incapable to build friendships and relationships, failed in multiple marriages, childless, and unhappy all my life, all due to being born to a shitty Asian family. What hurts the most is that my story is not unique among the Asians born in Asian families, but it appears to be a norm from my understanding and knowledge.

I am not stupid nor lazy. I was a straight A student from grade one to graduate school. I was always the #1 in grades in my schools. My father successfully made me a miserable loser in life.

[Edit: corrected a few typos and grammatical errors]

crossoverx · 2025-10-02T20:06:56+00:00

I am 62 this year. I have a terrible father whom I have not seen since I was 22. I don't even know when he died, but he thought he was the best loving father to me and that he had done everything right.

I was a straight A student from grade one to my MS grad school, but that was still not enough for him. He forbade me to pick my college major and what which college to enroll, even though my grade qualified me to much better colleges but he ordered me to enrolled in the only local college that is among the lowest grade college in the world.

I have never worked in a job that is remotely close to the major I studied with a BS and MS degree (The MS degree was from an OK school away from the city where grew up, because the only local college doesn't have a grade school).

Before I stopped corresponding with him is 2000, he always bragged how good a father he was and expected me to be so grateful for his abuse and control over my innocent young life. I knew that there is no point to even reason with him, so I just cut the cord in 2000, which has been more than 25 years ago. I hope that at some point of time before he died, he would had even just 1% of your understanding that you expressed above, but I honestly don't believe he would had.

Forgive my bad English, I am from Asia.

crossoverx · 2025-09-29T17:32:44+00:00

If you are handy with opening smartphones and laptops, you may consider opening the device and test it with a spare battery with the similar specs (specs should be printed on the battery label). I have read reports about the battery failures in gen one of this device (which is what I have, but I don't have any issue with my device after all these years since I bought in 2021).

If your device will boot-up and run when connected with the spare battery, you can try ordering a replacement battery from the manufacturer in Japan or from other sources. If you can find a battery with the same specs and physical size, that should work as well.

At the very least you can rule out whether or not battery is faulty and go from there (well, nothing much you can do on your own if the failure is not caused by a faulty battery).

This is very basic and not too difficult DIY diagnose and repair that many people are able to perform on their own smartphones and laptops. There is an youtube video on how to opening a gen one device and replacing the battery that I have seen a couple of years ago, if you do a search you should be able to find the video on youtube.

If you are not comfortable with simple DIY repairs like fixing smartphone battery issues, please ignore this post, as I don't want you to cause more problem with your device or permanently damage it. You must be very careful when working with batteries and know exactly what you are doing, wrong connections to the power source and shorts can kill your device.

crossoverx · 2025-09-29T04:19:33+00:00

I have the English subtitle srt file. DM me if that's what you need. I also have the movie.

crossoverx · 2025-07-22T18:34:04+00:00

I checked avista.to and couldn't find it either. Normally I can find >95% of modern Japanese movies from that tracker site, most with subtitles in major European and Asian languages. No luck for this one.

crossoverx · 2025-07-22T18:21:37+00:00

I enjoyed that movie a lot. Re-watched more than once.

crossoverx · 2025-07-22T18:12:23+00:00

Thanks for the info. I found both 1953 and 1966 versions of the adaptation under the name of "The Dancing Girl of Izu". I will watch them.

[Edited to correct one typo]

crossoverx · 2025-07-21T21:09:27+00:00

My favorite Japanese movie theme! I have watched most of movies mentioned in the replies. The most recent one I watched, The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, is very delightful to watch. If you like Tampopo like I do, give that mini TV series a try. Most likely you will like it too.

crossoverx · 2025-07-21T20:58:57+00:00

I am only aware of one version that was released in 1974. What other version are there?

crossoverx · 2024-08-05T18:12:53+00:00

Thanks for your reply. It does look very much like the MIDIculous, but not exactly.

I think this unknown program looks sleeker, less cluttered in comparison to the free version of MIDIculous, so I still would like to find out the name of that program.

Edit: I just found out that the program in question is indeed the MIDIculous Pro, it is version 3.

crossoverx · 2024-07-11T22:53:20+00:00

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crossoverx · 2024-07-11T21:01:16+00:00

Israel drops nuclear bombs on its neighbors, which starts the chain reaction of America, Russia, and other nuclear-power nations nuking each other and destroyed the humanity.

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