Chinese Cooking Demystified

In Chungking Express, there is a snack bar with a lineup of sauces. Any good guesses on what the sauces are?

This is based on a real snack shop called Midnight Express in LKF in Hong Kong (closed in early 00s), with mixed Western/Indian offerings.

04.05.2025 23:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Document Friday: The Military’s (26 Page) Brownie Recipe. If you can read all the way through today’s hot doc, it has the potential to be tasty.  It’s the 26-page recipe for the military specification brownies that our troops eat.  This one ha…

In the late 00s there was a “26 page brownie recipe” from the US army that was bouncing around the internet, maybe you’re thinking of that? unredacted.com/2010/05/28/d...

05.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In China sometimes showers aren’t separated from the rest of the bathroom, for space reasons (and shower curtains often get moldy in the climate). This is a screen so that shower water doesn’t get on a smart toilet.

14.01.2025 11:42 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mostly here because I periodically like catching up on the work of @michaelpettis.bsky.social, who (thankfully) posts here in addition to the bloated husk of X.

Possible I may post on BlueSky in the future, but I'm still mulling over whether these platforms are good for my brain or not :)

10.01.2025 00:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0