My wife says her classmates think she brings very elaborate lunches, instead of like a raw carrot or a cold sandwich or a something.
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Karen Quinn Fung 馮皓珍replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I follow a person on IG whose entire schtick is commentating on mainland Chinese social media trends in English. A few months ago Chinese folks were calling flavourless, simple and/or raw vegetable lunches “white food” and equating it with a waning desire to live.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Karen Quinn Fung 馮皓珍 last edited by
@ci8 haha I saw that as well. Also that people in China were doing it as a bit to try to see what that is like. And really struggling
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Chenny Leibovitz last edited by
@secretasianman I love that there is a website with this name.
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ChasMusic (he/him)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte ¿Is that a southern Chinese thing? I regularly see raw cucumber salad on northern Chinese menus. Of course, that's just one item, so maybe it's an exception.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to ChasMusic (he/him) last edited by [email protected]
@ChasMusic yeah probably a rest of china other than the places with turkic / raw influences thing
has to do with TCM beliefs
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@skinnylatte @faassen that's not wrong, keeping raw veg clean enough of soil bacteria to eat is difficult and that risk is surely reduced by cooking, and many veg aren't digestible unless cooked, like spinach, the cell walls are too touch and you get no nutritional value without cooking
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Martijn Faassenreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte This puts a whole new spin on Lohei during Singapore CNY.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Martijn Faassen last edited by
@faassen I feel like raw vegetables cause more concern than raw fish somehow haha