If you’re in Singapore, like din tai fung, but don’t like how crowded / expensive their restaurants get: here’s a hawker stall that does functionally the same food for $4ish. Will also be crowded, but it won’t be $40
@CatherineFlick I know this is about the up picking of mainstream dinning, and I've never been to Australia but I wonder if this is simply reflecting there is a bigger East Asian community there than UK?
Btw the next trend will be Taiwanese/Japanese rice ball😋
In Europe, flying is cheaper than taking the train.
It's an embarrassment, and a major problem: we have to stop flying for silly short distances. Realise that the overheads of flying (reaching the airport, awaiting 2 hours, the flight, the unloading, reaching the destination) largely cancel out any time gains of flying. And the carbon costs are utterly untenable. Not to speak of the modern, dire conditions of the whole flying "experience".
Another embarrassment is that train connections can't be guaranteed when across countries or companies. They aren't even coordinated. As if those who commission and set the schedules didn't travel by train themselves, at least not internationally. In considering how tiny most European countries are, it's frankly bizarre.
There are so many destinations one could travel by train to, yet in practice, it's not sensible. A disgrace.
Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):
Egg tofu
This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.
@skinnylatte slight side track here, I am wondering what is your take on this Fermented Bean Curd https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%85%90%E4%B9%B3
Huaren communities have a love hate relationship with it, I personally love it...almost like cheese
So oral exam at end of PhD. Good idea or just a tradition that doesn't make any sense any more? What are the good things about them? If we didn't do them, how else could we get those good things? #academia#academicchatter
@neuralreckoning@nicolaromano@steveroyle I am not sure "NO one reads PhD thesis" is entirely true, at least myself actively look out and read chapters of PhD and MSc thesis on when it is subject I interested. They usually more useful than their published counterparts if those also exist often not
@maegul
I would not deny the reward cycles in science has become publication and grant cycles but I would like to think (perhaps naively) science is a bit more than just that..calling PhD thesis as compensation seems harsh 🙏 @IanSudbery@neuralreckoning@elduvelle@lana
#Budget#UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.
“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”
This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)
“The success of Threads in Taiwan shows that politics is still one of the main reasons people come to a text-based social network, but it also highlights Meta’s uncomfortable relationship with political content on its platforms.”
I’ve been listening to #Taiwanese language (Taigi) podcasts while running to help me stay in touch with the part of my brain that innately understands southern Min languages as a first language. I feel like I’m losing touch with it. Anyway, interesting content not available in English: heard a story investigating how the Taiwanese railway bento isn’t an ‘ancient’ food tradition like it’s perceived but rather one that came from Japanese colonialism AND food safety concerns. #Food
@mcmullin@skinnylatte I would not be surprised coffee is from Japanese Kanji, Japan modernisation movement translate many foreign words into Kanji and Chinese simply took them as they are, for example Science is one