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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 19:17:12 JST Adrianna Tan

   When traveling, if I have access to a fridge and a small kitchen I will tend to go to a supermarket or deli and get a few prepared items (fresh salads or mashed potato), maybe some stuff like the Korean microwaveable rice and some canned items.

   It makes the in-between meals so much easier. From traveling with my parents I’ve also learned how to make approximates of various Malaysian / Singaporean foods with an assortment of spice packs we bring (they travel with their own rice and mini cooker..)

   There are some places where travel means ‘eat out 7 times a day’ (Taiwan, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, India..)

   And some that are very much not that sort of place.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 19:23:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There’s also a part of my brain I’ve blocked out: in 2022, my wife and I had to be in a strict hotel quarantine on arriving in early mid Covid Singapore.

     21 days in a regular sized hotel room.

     The catered food they sent to our room 3 times a day was fine (probably amazing by other countries’ standards) but very much not what I expect when I am in Singapore (every single meal must be amazing, including when I am in a hotel quarantine. We have a local saying there, ‘don’t waste your calories (space) on not amazing food’)

     Anyway, friends and family took turns to drop off our favorite hawker food from the hawkers we couldn’t go to (leaving the hotel was a strict.. imprisonment situation)

     And I also learned a lot about making food I like inside a hotel room for an extended amount of time.

     I hope I never have to live through something like that again.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 19:25:36 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

     @gcvsa oh yeah I have something that size.. it’s also perfect for oatmeal (if i ate oatmeal..)

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     Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐 (gcvsa@mstdn.plus)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 19:25:37 JST Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

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     @skinnylatte I got my Panasonic SR-3NAL rice cooker, because I heard it's popular with Japanese airliner cabin crews, since it fits in a suitcase and can be used to make fresh rice in a hotel room overseas in places where access to rice might not be easy. It's designed for up to 270 mL (1.5 gō) of uncooked rice. I actually have two, and kept one at my office, when I still had an office on the other side of town. Perfect for lunches!

     https://shop.panasonic.com/products/rice-cooker-1-5-cup-uncooked-capacity

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 19:51:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I was broadly supportive of that moment and think the government did a good time with Covid measures. The hotel quarantine program was well managed.

     On a personal level, I had no qualms about ‘muh freedoms’

     But it changed my expectations and interactions with the state.

     I needed to travel and do the quarantine because I needed a stamp in my passport that would let me keep my job in the U.S.

     I wasn’t sure if my country, which doesn’t recognize my same sex marriage, which had blocked all travel to it except for citizens and permanent residents and their immediate family, would recognize my wife as my immediate family.

     I wasn’t sure they would put us in the same hotel room. I wasn’t sure they would let her in.

     Every single life outcome at that time hinged on hoping that I didn’t encounter a homophobic person with power, at any point in that weird time.

     I think it was at that point where I realized all of my privileges in that country were not rights and I never want to be in a position of begging for recognition of my relationship ever again.