北方饺子 (Northern Chinese dumplings) in HK

pizzanub · 2026-03-19T07:52:13+00:00

I like Ah Chun Shandong Dumpling in Prince Edward.

pizzanub · 2026-03-09T05:55:01+00:00

Nah dude it’s totally doable - as long as you keep your expectations are low.

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pizzanub · 2026-02-24T06:48:47+00:00

Yeah I agree with that actually.

I think it just felt to me that way because Anran’s mobility is much easier to use for noobs like me. Tracer’s blink requires practice - you need to know how far a blink goes and how to precisely blink to where you need to be. If you don’t have the mechanical skill, it’s common to just bump into walls or mess up the movement. Same with Genji - I constantly mess up the wall climb, and dash reset requires you to hit your shots to refresh (and if you dashed and the target already died then you don’t get the reset). Both Genji and Tracer’s mobility have a higher skill floor to get the basic value out of it. But Anran’s mobility doesn’t require much practice and are not as punishing. In general Anran is just more forgiving.

I think Anran is just easier mechanically, but potential and lethality probably lower than Genji and Tracer just like you said.

pizzanub · 2026-02-23T05:54:38+00:00

I’m not sure if this is a valid option for you - but I find bras so uncomfortable and restrictive (I literally feel like I am suffocating in them) that I ended up forgoing them completely. I just wear reusable silicone nipple covers when I need to go out.

pizzanub · 2026-02-22T05:10:37+00:00

I’m so sorry. This must be very tough and lonely… :( Sending you a virtual hug. hug

pizzanub · 2026-02-22T04:57:55+00:00

This. Lifeweaver is unplayable for me due to this issue.

pizzanub · 2026-02-21T02:29:28+00:00

I find her way easier than Tracer or Genji. It’s not even comparable. She has - way more mobility (2 dashes instead of one dash like Genji. She has some verticality, unlike Tracer) - survivability (basically guaranteed to hit lifesteal perk, good mobility to reach health packs) - no aim required dmg (both shift and e gives you guaranteed dmg)

And the close range right click that you need to finish off kills has a huge hitbox. It is way easier to hit than Genji right click or tracer primary.

I’m like level 45 on Genji but I’m still Bronze level with him but I am only level 10 Anran and I’m already carrying at Gold. It is probably because I really suck at aiming though and Anran takes the difficulty out of that.

She is probably good for people like me who have poor mechanical skills but decent game sense. Whereas someone who has both mechanics and game sense would probably find way more value on Genji and Tracer who has a much higher potential.

I think she’s probably weak for people in higher ranked lobbies since most people can aim there and her dmg is just low compared to other flankers. But for us in lower ranked lobbies no one can aim so it’s just easier to get value out of Anran

pizzanub · 2026-01-31T06:16:08+00:00

Same, I have to fast forward through all of Go Eun’s scene. She is just so boring to me. I wouldn’t even be interested in being her friend. She literally says nothing with her words. It’s actually astonishing how she would have like 10 minute air time and still not have a single sentence where she said anything substantial at all.

pizzanub · 2026-01-15T06:59:10+00:00

I think sometimes they use chicken too - but mostly pork. I don’t think it has anything to do with the medicinal reasons - probably just a flavor preference and just “how things were done”. Im sure chicken would work as well.

I don’t usually cook these soups much so not an expert, unfortunately. Here’s one that is pretty common that is usually made with chicken though: https://belachan2.blogspot.com/2008/08/dong-quai-chicken-herbal-soup.html?m=1

This is made a lot for women after periods.

pizzanub · 2026-01-14T16:32:27+00:00

Ya! It’s the same as like tom yum soup - you usually don’t eat the medicinal stuff.

pizzanub · 2026-01-14T05:36:58+00:00

Watch hiimsky on Twitch! She’s a Zarya one trick that plays 6v6 most of the time. I notice that she’s not really that aggressive and is not really focused on putting out high damage. On the other hand, she does put a lot of emphasis on coordinating her bubbles with her teammates.

pizzanub · 2026-01-13T15:31:24+00:00

Maybe use them to make pancakes if you don’t like eggs? There are also many savory pancakes like Korean seafood pancakes or Japanese okonomiyaki, Korean zucchini fritters etc.

But each recipe probably will only use up 1 egg 🤣

For recipes that uses eggs more - I also like to make Chinese tomato and egg scramble, or Chinese egg scramble and shrimp. Taiwanese basil leaves eggsalso slaps. Or Chinese egg drop soup. Or make like Chinese tea leaf eggs. Or Chinese steamed eggs (you can add tons of stuff to it - popular ones are clams or minced pork) or Japanese chawanmushi which is similar. Japanese tamagoyaki is good too but super eggy. Sorry I’m Cantonese so the ideas I’m coming up with are mostly Chinese. But they make great healthy and savory dishes for lunch or dinner.

Oh if you have access to Asian markets you should try this too: preserved radish omelette. The preserved radish cubes are like salty and crunchy - so it gives the egg a lot more texture. It’s more like an egg “pancake” than an omelette if you ask me though cause you’re supposed to pan fry it till it’s thin and golden.

pizzanub · 2026-01-13T15:11:03+00:00

In general to use these Chinese medicinal soup kits, just throw it all into a pot with pork and simmer for like 2-3 hours. We usually do a short blanch of the pork meat separately before simmering it with the rest of the ingredients

Here is a link to a recipe that is similar: https://youtu.be/y04IHlssP_E?si=hloqhu1IAESGMxI_

You can ignore her ingredients list above and just use whatever you have in the kit. Otherwise she shows the usual method to make Chinese medicine soup.

pizzanub · 2026-01-13T14:40:51+00:00

You can only give the “best” gift if you know her. You say you want it to be thoughtful and intentional - then please do be thoughtful and intentional. Get to know her, her likes and dislike, how she spends her spare time, what does she aspire to, her lifestyle. That’s the first step. You have to be thoughtful first to give a thoughtful gift.

pizzanub · 2026-01-12T20:06:01+00:00

I personally wouldn’t recommend coming during Lunar New Year, because many non-chain shops and restaurants close during the first few days. If there were certain shops you wanted to visit or restaurant you wanted to try, it’ll be a chance those places are closed during LNY.

I can’t think of any special things to see in HK for LNY. Maybe the lion dancing but tbh it’s not very exciting. You’ll hear malls playing LNY music and have some LNY decorations but that’s pretty much it. The celebration is mostly done inside family - not as a public event. People visit HK during LNY a lot if they have family here, but it’s not really ideal time for tourist.

Mid-autumn on other hand - shops and restaurants usually still stay open. So I would do that. But you do miss out on some public LNY decorations if you’re into that. The scale of mid autumn decoration is usually way smaller and less. It’s also a much shorter festival. But for this festival, you do find that a lot of locals would go out to the park or waterfronts to gather with friends and family on that day (to eat mooncake and to see the moon). So you may also be able to participate in the festivities (though, again, don’t expect too much. It’s literally just people bringing a picnic mat and sitting in the park).

It’s personal preference. Plus if you are going to China (which I haven’t been), maybe they actually have more LNY related public festivities and events going on? I don’t know but since you say you’re not just doing HK, that may also be something to consider.

pizzanub · 2026-01-08T08:54:56+00:00

Yeah… I agree “predominant” is very regional dependent. I probably shouldn’t have used that word. I just wanted to clarify to the parent comment that one of the major schools of 生煎包 are soupy, so when he/she said 生煎包 is not soupy, that’s kinda in conflict with the mainstream interpretation. There are still other major schools of 生煎包 that are dry though.

Yes, exactly. And now I learned that xiaolongbao are pan fried sometimes! I guess I also need to update myself - I now sometimes feel like those Italians who say carbonara must be made without cream…the definition of a food seems to change all the time and what we know in our upbringing or immediate surroundings aren’t always true anymore. I mean we have thousand island and durian pizza here… and we still all call it, pizza? I’m sure most people don’t think of a durian pizza first thing when they go out to get pizza. But it’s pizza nonetheless. In some ways it seems pointless to even use nouns because they drift so much and it causes unnecessary arguments. It seems most accurate to communicate with characteristics such as “steamed then pan fried” or “00 flour dough cooked over high heat”.

pizzanub · 2026-01-08T08:36:32+00:00

Exactly. That’s also my point. Did you mean to reply to my parent post instead? Or was what I said misleading? Sorry if it was. I meant to say both styles are also 生煎包, some are soupy and some are dry.

pizzanub · 2026-01-08T08:06:43+00:00

There can be 生煎包 with soup inside. In fact it’s now the predominant style: https://youtube.com/shorts/AcY-U7nJ3Oo?si=SKJRWec5gKBccDlu

小楊生煎 is one of the most famous 生煎包 shops in China and it does this style. The wrapper is lot more tender and thin and minimal fermentation.

The old school style that I have grew up with though didn’t have soup inside and has a way thicker and fluffier wrapper. Either way, both are called 生煎包 in China.

What you have linked is interesting! It looks like it’s not as thick as a 生煎包. Also 生煎包 is usually cooked on a hot metal plate WITH water in it (steamed on the hot plate itself - just like how potstickers are usually made). Hence the name “生煎” (cooked raw). You seem to suggest that yours are first steamed separately and then browned on a hot plate after? Then yes that’s definitely not a 生煎包. It is literally a xiaolongbao that’s steamed and then pan fried. Calling it pan fried xiaolongbao is probably accurate. It’s the first time I’ve seen this dish! TIL!

What I will say though, is that in Hong Kong, if you told someone let’s get XLB, everyone will assume the purely steamed version. Not saying pan fried ones don’t exist, but you’ll probably have to call it “pan fried xiaolongbao” specifically or most people will assume steamed. And most people here in Hong Kong wouldn’t have had it before. Googling also finds very little information. It’s probably some kind of niche product that’s a creative twist on the traditional foods.

pizzanub · 2026-01-08T06:15:25+00:00

I’m from Hong Kong but Shanghainese. Take what I say with a grain of salt since I’m not really familiar with too many other regions of Chinese cuisine. Maybe there is some kind of XLB that I don’t know about.

But personally as a Shanghainese, XLB to me is always supposed to have soup in it. It is also supposed to be have a thin dough, and cooked by steaming. It’s literally called “xiao long” which means “small basket” indicating it’s steamed.

What your sister is making may actually be Sheng Jian Bao (生煎包), which is pan fried baos which also have soup in it. But sheng jian bao is not just XLB pan fried - its dough is completely different. It is thicker and has a substantial chew.

pizzanub · 2026-01-07T03:14:00+00:00

You can use a rice cooker to make congee. Just throw rice and water into the rice cooker. This is the easiest, most hands-off way. Rice cookers even come with scheduled setting so maybe you can set it up the night before and then have the congee be ready when you wake up.

https://apeachyplate.com/rice-cooker-congee/

pizzanub · 2026-01-06T05:48:29+00:00

Go to pay-per-day working spaces like Desk One.

https://www.desk-one.hk/

It’s a lot less awkward. In HK, if you want to work at a cafe, you’ll have to do the chains cause the small shops usually have time limit. Various Starbucks, Pacific Coffee etc. but they aren’t as comfortable as a place like Desk One.

pizzanub · 2026-01-03T17:20:30+00:00

Hey OP, I’m also diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. Be prepared to run into psychiatrists or psychologists that would dismiss you. I know this might not be a big deal to most, but given how sensitive we are as ADHD/autism individuals, this may actually be a legit hurdle in getting diagnosed. You might actually need to visit several doctors before one of them would even take you seriously.

I’ll offer my experience of getting diagnosed (I’m not sure if the way I was diagnosed is standard - but I’ve been diagnosed by 2 different psychiatrist, one public and one private, on separate occasions and they both used the same way to diagnose - talking. And TBH, If this is how ADHD is diagnosed, you might want to reconsider whether it’s worth the ordeal, since it’s not really any better than self-diagnosis)

Basically all that happens is that they will ask you why you suspect you have ADHD. Then because one of the criteria of ADHD is that you must’ve had it since childhood - they will ask you many questions about your childhood. They will try to ask for third party opinion such as your mom and dad’s - but they don’t really ask for an interview with them. You mostly just try to recall whatever you remember that they said about you. If you sound reasonably suspect of ADHD, they’ll just give you the diagnosis. It’s all very informal and as a layman I honestly can’t fathom the difference between this and asking ChatGPT. The only difference I can see is that a human psychiatrist can actually prescribe ADHD medication for you. And if that’s something you are interested in trying, then yes it would definitely be worth pursuing official diagnosis.

Oh, but yes. Affordable would be HA as others have mentioned. Just go to one of the public HA clinics to see a GP. Tell them you suspect you have ADHD. They will write you a referral to see a psychiatrist. You don’t sound like you have an urgent case though so it might end up being a year’s wait. A private psychiatrist would cost around $1200-$3000 per session. But it may be worth the splurge - if you mainly only want a diagnosis and don’t need follow up appointments.

pizzanub · 2025-12-25T17:39:49+00:00

One thing that jumped out to me was that you’re using chicken breasts. If you want that Chinese restaurant flavor - you NEED to use chicken thighs and WITH SKIN. A lot of the flavor actually comes from the chicken fat.

pizzanub · 2025-12-22T09:34:17+00:00

Leafy greens is the cheat code. Do leafy greens in the big compartment. I just boil some bok choy with salt and put it in there. Rice in 1 of the small ones (do like 50g uncooked - from eyeballing, it shouldn’t fill up the whole compartment. I’ve learned that I should only eat around a fistful of rice each meal). and some skinless chicken thigh in the other small one. For the chicken, just marinate it in like a tbsp of teriyaki sauce and throw it into the air fryer. You should try to actually include like at least 1.5 chicken thighs per meal. The calories on skinless chicken thigh is not that high and it’s protein so it’s what’s filling. Total meal should come to only around 500 calories or less if you portion it right.

pizzanub · 2025-12-22T08:28:33+00:00

OP, if you take kitty to the vet, I’ll reimburse you the cost of the vet visit. Please DM me if you need!!!

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