SuperJail Warden
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I didn't like hotpot either. Maybe it was how my girlfriend made the stew. Korean BBQ is good though.

Recent KBBQ I had. They cut up the steak and stuff for you.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipNd1SzGzWb0YngME8JSANl4rXrBCQtEj549OK8G=s1896-w768-h1896
All you can eat but I think it was like $60 a person. Worth it.
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Getting tired of going to asian restaurants with my colleagues.

The junior engineer from Hong Kong eats like all Hong Kongers I've run into, crams in as much as he can and talks and chortles with both cheeks and his mouth stuffed full of food.
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

I didn't like hotpot either. Maybe it was how my girlfriend made the stew. Korean BBQ is good though.

Recent KBBQ I had. They cut up the steak and stuff for you.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipNd1SzGzWb0YngME8JSANl4rXrBCQtEj549OK8G=s1896-w768-h1896
All you can eat but I think it was like $60 a person. Worth it.
Homemade kbbq from last Saturday

https://i.imgur.com/E3qYMRZ.jpeg
SuperJail Warden
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That meat looks good. I am really impressed by East Asian meat seasoning. You can tell spices came from there. A lot of variety.
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Been making my own pasta and grinding my own meats.

https://i.imgur.com/QVgWq8V.jpeg

Homemade bread, pasta, meatballs, marinara. Next step: buying a farm
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You don't need your own farm, just find a farmer who will let you kill a few of his animals now and then.
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

That meat looks good. I am really impressed by East Asian meat seasoning. You can tell spices came from there. A lot of variety.
the spices in all east asian cuisine came from south america. the main chilli pepper in korean gochujang was introduced to the peninsula by the portuguese. the only difference is that they ferment it because their climate is dogshit for chilli peppers for 8 months of the year. and then add extra local flavours like soy sauce, most obviously, or fish/shrimp-based ingredients for kimchi. before european contact with asia, the national dish of korea - kimchi - was actually a regular white, pickled dish. the spice and redness in everything that people now associate with korean cuisine is an import.

ironically, asians like the chinese and koreans have a fixed idea in their heads that westerners can't handle spice ... you'll forever get warned 'this is spicy!' when eating even the most routine dish there. it's like, please ... we gave you chillis. we squatted on india for a century.

kbbq in north america looks very sad, by the way. you gotta go visit korea, i'm afraid. highly recommend eating hot meat dishes with a bowl of ice-chilled cold noodles as an accompaniment. your palette will thank you.

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lunch: lemon yogurt, wheat crackers. week's worth of various lunch potential ready to go, for the price of one instance of eating out, cheaply.

but there's no appeasing. a few measly years ago, we were told to lay off the avocado toast (never mind that in some areas, bags of avocados are as plentiful as pigeons). recently, we were advised (once again) to budget and spend frugally on groceries and eat like a wartime household living off of a victory garden. now:

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fuck off. it's like every other day with these people and their hot takes.

waiting times for a meal is 40 min+ at a middling gastro. is a two-hour lunch break normal?? hasn't lunch hour also been slammed as contributory to miserable traffic conditions? "walk to lunch instead." better make that a three-hour lunch break, just to play russian roulette with food poisoning or e. coli or at least risking resigning the rest of your day to faint nausea. even if there was enough time for fast food, then you're just contributing negatively to whatever national health crisis, while still sitting in the drive thru for like 20 min waiting for the chronically underpaid to inevitably get your order wrong.

"your new lunch habit is hurting the economy."

'new,' lmao. tone deaf as the vacuum of space.

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maccable content:

one of the guys who engages me in politics all the time is very concerned about the plight of restaurants and all the fees and taxations and regulations and labor standards hurting them. it's very political, and was like a daily thing with him during covid. but in practice, he hates restaurants. doesn't care for the food, doesn't like the cost. his wife once confided to me that he once walked out on her in a middle class restaurant when steak prices were in the upper-mid two figures. mortifying, even if they hadn't ordered yet. he has zero restaurant recommendations, and demurs on suggestions of takeout. i'll even point out places i've eaten at that i thought were decent and maybe a good spot for business lunch, and he'll be like "naw, i'm good." so i guess everyone else is supposed to take the hit to their wallet, in his place, to keep restaurants afloat. family businesses depend on it! lol

"what, i can't have an opinion?"
SuperJail Warden
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Your coworker is a secret gay. One of my many.

"i'll even point out places i've eaten at that i thought were decent and maybe a good spot for business lunch, and he'll be like "naw, i'm good."

That is women shit. Only girls don't know what they want to eat for dinner.
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possibly? i don't judge.

he's not indecisive about food that way though. he packs lunch all the time. but it's very important to him that restaurants do well and make lots of money. just not his money, apparently. funny, that. vaguely adjacent to people wanting to bring manufacturing back to america, but would never work at a factory if they had any other options. "someone other than me can bear that burden" trope.

him: "family-owned restaurants are having a hard time right now."
me: "there's a family-owned soup place i went to before in the direction you're in. good stuff. you could try that?"
him: "hmm, no, i don't want to get sick."

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SuperJail Warden
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Family owned restaurants are funny as a concept. Small restaurants still buy supplies from major corporations. Your local McDonald's could also be a family owned and run business.

...

I genuinely envy these immigrants who come into the country, hunker down 3 families in one apartment and invest in a business together.

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