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   Ryan (fullywoolly@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Sep-2026 23:46:19 JST Ryan

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   @Recalcitrant @skinnylatte @mayintoronto @TheBreadmonkey could be a regional thing? When I became vegetarian, I was dating someone that 1st generation Chinese and that was how they described it to me. Its happened enough that I look for it now.

   Thanks for the insight though. Maybe I'll be able to commit this to memory and use it!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Sep-2026 23:46:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @fullywoolly @Recalcitrant @mayintoronto @TheBreadmonkey it’s definitely fully veg if it says 素 but places that are not Buddhist have a very poor understanding of vegetarianism, which to many non temple related folks is just no red meat, so obv chicken and fish is fine. It reads more like ‘avoiding red meat’ (than ‘no meat’ but also they don’t really see things that are not red meat as meat, if it helps)

     A veg place will have veg chicken and veg fish but varying levels of how good it’ll be. I tend to prefer places that use things like mushrooms instead of soy mock meats anyway.

     Desserts tend to have pork in the south of China since we don’t have any butter at all

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     Ryan (fullywoolly@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Sep-2026 00:32:15 JST Ryan

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     @skinnylatte @Recalcitrant @mayintoronto @TheBreadmonkey thanks for the clarification and insight. I'll definitely try committing it to memory.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Sep-2026 00:32:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @fullywoolly @Recalcitrant @mayintoronto @TheBreadmonkey yeah and ‘Jay’ or ‘chay’ in Thai and Vietnamese