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cuddlefish) wrote2009-08-03 03:08 pm
cuddlefish) wrote2009-08-03 03:08 pm
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Here I come, dragging my sorry butt back to LJ around the end of Aion beta. It sucked this time because nobody is around to party and I'm too poor to update my armor. The soul healer wants almost 20,000 kinah from me :/ I'm annoyed at my game now and I wish it was September so I could start over without all the screwing up. And have more monies OTL
Note: "yumareola" "crotch" "CumBucket" and "nakadashi" are not acceptable names for characters. I thought long and hard about this---we should get some free speech in games! We should definitely be able to say "fun," not "**n." But names that are meant to make everyone that sees them think about porn, and about the people who never stop thinking about porn so much that they name their characters things that make everybody think about porn, are not acceptable.
I ate dim sum yesterday! I went with my parents. I decided that I must have dim sum in Boston before the end of the summer, and so I was filled with ironclad determination. I made a list of what I would eat ahead of time and got there at peak hours, but my parents lack the solemn composure that a proper food undertaking requires, so they did a lot of just ordering everything and then they got full before me. I ended up having to eat some of their leftovers because the cart ladies were like, oh, those people have a table full of food! WTF guys!!! I didn't even get to eat tofu flowers!
Yang and I discussed raucous Chinese dining vs. reserved traditional Japanese dining.
Translated from my Japanese manners DS game:
"How to eat: Shellfish (Japanese)"
"First, lightly hold down the bottom shell with the chopsticks in your right hand, and with your left hand, grasp the top shell. Open the shell, and push back the top with your left hand to secure it. When you remove the meat in the shell, hold down the shell with your left fingers, and poke the place where the meat attaches to the shell to tear it out. Once you've separated the meat and the shell, you can taste the meat and the juices."
"If you cannot loosen the meat with your chopsticks, you may also pick up the shell with your chopsticks, and bring it to your mouth, where you can nibble away at the meat. However, when you do this, you must cover your mouth with a paper or a napkin."
"Do the same if you are eating grilled clams. You may drink the juices directly from the shell if you like, but is it graceful and refined to transfer it to the cover from your soup or to your cup first."
(6:04:50 PM) Yang: this is almost orwellian
(6:04:57 PM) Yang: indoctrinating ppl how to eat a goddamn clam
(6:05:15 PM) Yang: like men in a black sedan will show up at your house in the middle of the night to take you away
(6:05:42 PM) Yang: if you just sit down with a big bowl of shellfish, a bottle of sauce, a lemon, and just go to town
(6:07:45 PM) Me: more rules for shrimp, soo
(6:07:50 PM) Me: I won't bother writing that down
(6:08:04 PM) Me: but you can't suck out the brains of whole shrimp unless you're with pals
(6:08:12 PM) Me: bummer man
(6:08:19 PM) Me: It's like
(6:08:24 PM) Me: you're sucking out brains
(6:08:33 PM) Me: you're gnawing the meat right out of the shell
(6:08:39 PM) Me: you're eating the fish while it's still alive
(6:08:43 PM) Me: DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO PUT ON AIRS
I kind of don't think you have to do everything just like that when you eat a bivalve, at least not up to the part about the napkin (which sounds 100% true). There are 20 other articles on "how to eat" under Japanese food! Not all of them are as detailed but some of them are :(
Note: "yumareola" "crotch" "CumBucket" and "nakadashi" are not acceptable names for characters. I thought long and hard about this---we should get some free speech in games! We should definitely be able to say "fun," not "**n." But names that are meant to make everyone that sees them think about porn, and about the people who never stop thinking about porn so much that they name their characters things that make everybody think about porn, are not acceptable.
I ate dim sum yesterday! I went with my parents. I decided that I must have dim sum in Boston before the end of the summer, and so I was filled with ironclad determination. I made a list of what I would eat ahead of time and got there at peak hours, but my parents lack the solemn composure that a proper food undertaking requires, so they did a lot of just ordering everything and then they got full before me. I ended up having to eat some of their leftovers because the cart ladies were like, oh, those people have a table full of food! WTF guys!!! I didn't even get to eat tofu flowers!
Yang and I discussed raucous Chinese dining vs. reserved traditional Japanese dining.
Translated from my Japanese manners DS game:
"How to eat: Shellfish (Japanese)"
"First, lightly hold down the bottom shell with the chopsticks in your right hand, and with your left hand, grasp the top shell. Open the shell, and push back the top with your left hand to secure it. When you remove the meat in the shell, hold down the shell with your left fingers, and poke the place where the meat attaches to the shell to tear it out. Once you've separated the meat and the shell, you can taste the meat and the juices."
"If you cannot loosen the meat with your chopsticks, you may also pick up the shell with your chopsticks, and bring it to your mouth, where you can nibble away at the meat. However, when you do this, you must cover your mouth with a paper or a napkin."
"Do the same if you are eating grilled clams. You may drink the juices directly from the shell if you like, but is it graceful and refined to transfer it to the cover from your soup or to your cup first."
(6:04:50 PM) Yang: this is almost orwellian
(6:04:57 PM) Yang: indoctrinating ppl how to eat a goddamn clam
(6:05:15 PM) Yang: like men in a black sedan will show up at your house in the middle of the night to take you away
(6:05:42 PM) Yang: if you just sit down with a big bowl of shellfish, a bottle of sauce, a lemon, and just go to town
(6:07:45 PM) Me: more rules for shrimp, soo
(6:07:50 PM) Me: I won't bother writing that down
(6:08:04 PM) Me: but you can't suck out the brains of whole shrimp unless you're with pals
(6:08:12 PM) Me: bummer man
(6:08:19 PM) Me: It's like
(6:08:24 PM) Me: you're sucking out brains
(6:08:33 PM) Me: you're gnawing the meat right out of the shell
(6:08:39 PM) Me: you're eating the fish while it's still alive
(6:08:43 PM) Me: DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO PUT ON AIRS
I kind of don't think you have to do everything just like that when you eat a bivalve, at least not up to the part about the napkin (which sounds 100% true). There are 20 other articles on "how to eat" under Japanese food! Not all of them are as detailed but some of them are :(
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