Notices by ubi (ubi@ecoevo.social)

@skinnylatte What is Singaporean Laksa? Is it like Laksa Johor because of your geographical proximity or like Asam Laksa because of your penchant for Peranakan food?

@sohkamyung @skinnylatte interesting. That's not how I imagine Laksa at all. It's such a tricky dish, the same name hides an entire family of fish based soup noodles.

We should take a moment to appreciate how #gazaVerified shows the potential of the #fediverse. Blocked and suspended on corporate controlled social media, @joynewacc has managed to organise mutual aid for gazans suffering the #gazagenocide with the help of @aral .

With media of all kinds becoming more controlled and censored, this is a way forward. We need to build the social media to resist genocide, not enable it.

Things that entomologists say to each other that they shouldn't say to the public:
"I need to get better at my genitalia photography"

#entomology

@rakyat What happened to myBurgerLab? Is this another flag thing?

@irfan Where are you finding these people? Tell me so I can avoid it.

I received my copy of The Urban Naturalist from Menno Shilthuizen. Chapter 18 is all about the urban fireflies of Kuala Lumpur and the citizen science program there that I worked on.

#urbanBiodiversity #ecology #fireflies

Not many people know that the stem of the banana plant is edible, Malaysians call it 'umbut pisang'. We remove the soft inner section of the stem to use in salads or curries. The stems are soft, tender and soak up flavours really well. Usually only eaten during celebrations

I personally believe that this was how people used to consume wild banana plants before domestication

Some additional information in this blog (in Malay)
https://animhosnan.blogspot.com/2012/02/umbut-batang-pisang.html?m=1

#makanApaToday #indigenousKnowledge

@debaparna_das

In Southeast Asia I adopted a lot of plants used in traditional salads (ulam) for pollinator gardens. The pollinators can feed on the flowers, and I can have the leaves.

South Asia has a similar tradition of home gardens and fresh greens, but the plants are slightly different. I'm not sure if anyone has approached it from a pollinator garden angle though. https://www.paticheri.com/2023/10/10/kalavai-keerai-guide-to-wild-tamil-greens/

@rakyat Social media is such a shit show. Let's just go back to sending each other emails.

A selection of Southeast Asian gingers used in cooking and jamu making in no particular order: Galangal (Alpinia galanga), Temu kunci (Boesenbergia rotunda), Ginger (Zingiber officinale), Turmeric (Curcuma longa) (old and young rhizomes), Temu ireng (Curcuma aeruginosa) and Sand ginger /cekur (Kaempferia galanga).

All can be sliced thin and eaten raw to add an aromatic taste to rice. But for jamu they are blended and the juice is extracted to make tonics.

#makanApaToday #indigenousKnowledge

I will use this image to hurt graphic designers.
#typography

@liztai I used to enjoy reading that column. It's a shame that that there are so few regular columns in newspapers these days.

I am at a bootleg Malaysian al-Baik fried chicken. Not really to the level of original al-Baik, tastes just like kfc. It's like they're not even trying.

Verdict: Just put your money in your Tabung Haji account instead, this one is not worth it.

#makanApaToday #broastedChicken

@liztai I quit twitter and my mental health felt so much better. I wasted so much time in 2020 since we had nothing better to do during the lockdowns. It really stressed me out.

This week I was listening to my co workers argue very passionately about the latest twitter issue, Olympic clothing design and mufti's opinions on childfree couples, and I realised how useless a lot of this news actually is. It just exists to rile people up and misdirect their energy to frivolous subjects.

@nancylwayne @liztai The title of the queen of fruits has been taken by the mangosteen. It's common to eat durians and mangosteens together in Malaysia.

I need a way to filter out US politics. It's not even november and my feed is full this stuff.

@liztai Jalan Alor functions well as the tourist containment zone.

@liztai @chungliwen Still can get RM6 mee goreng away from the KL city center. I've found some recently at the poorer parts of Shah Alam.

@nitin @ElizabethLeeCo Some antlion species do have dark patterns on the wings.