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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 11:39:46 JST Adrianna Tan

   At Panda Express with my parents and explaining what it is

   They are intrigued

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:05:57 JST Adrianna Tan

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     My mum: ‘you told me this was a suburb and I can’t get food easily, that’s not true, Panda Express is 5 min away!!’

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:08:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • TheJen will not comply

     @TheJen she was too full from our clam chowder dinner to try but I think she is determined to do it soon

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     TheJen will not comply (thejen@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:08:57 JST TheJen will not comply

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     @skinnylatte LOL. Did she like it?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:13:05 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Alyson Decker

     @alysondecker I think they’re willing to lower their Chinese food expectations while abroad for ‘as long as there is rice and chicken in some form’

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     Alyson Decker (alysondecker@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:13:06 JST Alyson Decker

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     @skinnylatte soon to be horrified?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:15:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     They’re more flexible than me in this regard where there’s some Chinese food that just doesn’t register at all as Chinese food they know and so is therefore completely foreign and worth trying (they’ll also go back to some of the best Chinese food anywhere, where they live)

     Whereas I’m mostly grasping at memories of a taste from a distant home and stuff like panda is probably fine if I’m on vacation (because it’s a novelty) but because I live here now it’s a reminder that everyday Chinese food is.. of a different standard

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:17:33 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

     @waitworry @alysondecker yeah it’s fine, just that American Chinese food is completely new and they definitely see it as a new cuisine they’re trying with some hints of familiarity

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     Claire, The Ultimate Worrier (waitworry@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:17:34 JST Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

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     • Alyson Decker

     @skinnylatte @alysondecker I've known a few Chinese people who like Panda Express

     I guess it is just sort of like Chinese food McDonald's basically

     and it was actually started and owned by a Chinese-American family