Notices by Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io), page 13

@Starorstone yay!

@hyc @tea i like red blossom a lot, but wuyi origin is my quarterly splurge. really exceptional teas, even a significant cut above red blossom and the other excellent tea shops and for a similar price too

my picks for wang family are:

- dong fang mei ren
https://www.wangfamilytea.com/product-page/dongfang-mei-ren-cha

- charcoal roasted competition oolong
https://www.wangfamilytea.com/product-page/charcoal-roasted-competition-oolong

i tend to prefer heavy roasted oolongs, that's just my flavor palate for tea

but for white tea this one is also great
https://www.wangfamilytea.com/product-page/qin-yu-white-tea

and you can't go wrong with sun moon lake native black tea

https://www.wangfamilytea.com/product-page/sun-moon-lake-native-black-tea (this one would be great for iced or milky teas and also straight)

for taiwanese teas, which i also love, i usually buy them from wang family

20% off storewide now for black friday!

https://www.wangfamilytea.com/

sadly their green teas are sold out but i really like their green teas

you know how with a lot of japanese green tea there's that kind of grassy taste? i think wuyi oolong's cloud mist green has a bit of that but with the lightness of a long jing tea as well. like a long jing with a grassy (but not overwhelming, very balanced) taste

https://www.wuyiorigin.com/collections/green-tea

Buying tea from Fujian before the tariffs start

This is one of my favorite teas and one of my favorite tea sellers online. I prefer to buy directly from tea farmers and tea processors in China / Taiwan.

https://www.wuyiorigin.com/collections/2020-wuyi-ming-cong/products/boutique-rougui-%E7%B2%BE%E5%93%81%E8%82%89%E6%A1%82-2024

The Bai Ji Guan is also amazing

https://www.wuyiorigin.com/collections/2020-wuyi-ming-cong/products/bai-ji-guan-%E7%99%BD%E9%B8%A1%E5%86%A0-2022-%E7%9A%84%E5%89%AF%E6%9C%AC

Really good Chinese tea like this one doesn't get bitter even though if you steep it lots of times: https://www.wuyiorigin.com/collections/phoenix-dancong/products/old-bush-mi-lan-xiang-%E8%80%81%E6%9E%9E%E8%9C%9C%E5%85%B0%E9%A6%99-2025

@tea

#Tea #China #Food

@trochee @cstross yeah i think only the big food cos found any relevance. McDonald's for example, but their local franchise model works really well in Asia for this purpose. Taro pies, congee, red bean drinks :) actually legitimate place to eat (even with all the great food on the streets) in that specific case with fast food, even improved on the original import :)

Tech ethics fellowship for Stanford undergrads

https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/undergraduate/tech-ethics-policy-summer-fellowships

#Stanford #Ethics #Fellowships

@knapjack @sjuvonen taking off your shoes at home mainly

i also like walking barefoot on the ground in the grass, but unsure i would do that in the snow in finland. maybe in the spring

The problem with claiming to be doing race 'well' or 'better than other people' is that you can't admit there's racism or that minorities face some real issues

And there is no world in which anyone can claim that there isn't racism there

https://archive.ph/eRk8I

'Chinese people in Singapore stop doing blackface for more than 3 months' challenge (they failed: I just saw the second one in a week)

Chinese people in Singapore start educating yourself on racism beyond 'Singapore very racial harmony one here got no racism why you say like that one leh'

#TootSea #Singapore #Racism

@sjuvonen oh yes, finland felt very familiar for me out of all of the places in that part of the world, especially with the barefoot thing and the bidet thing

@cstross most American tech companies were completely trounced in China and also irrelavant and not a good user experience. Just wildly out of touch. When uber first launched in Chinese cities they insisted on calling their luxury car service ‘Black Car’, but that meant ‘unlicensed car’ (and that already existed in China as a name). Even with linguistic familiarity (through translators or Asian American employees), they could never penetrate the local market

My wife and I were reminiscing about Cookie yesterday. How she was so full of joy. And schemes (for food).

Once, in Singapore we ‘lost’ her for 15 minutes (she’s never more than a foot from me, because she was a Velcro dog).

Suddenly we heard our upstairs neighbor yell ‘who the hell are you!! Why are you eating my cat’s food!!’ Turned out she ran upstairs into someone’s cat door and gobbled up their cat food.

While their cat was napping in my house.

#Dogs

@sindarina still a shoe in my mind, and still hard to remember to wear them

Since I grew up in SE Asia I have a huge dislike of shoes in the house, or the feeling of anything other than bare feet on ground. This is a problem in the late fall and winter but I just cannot.. wear socks or sandals at home

Things I will accept as payment for work done:

• US dollars
• Euros
• Stock grants, bonds
• Homemade sweet potato pie

Things I will NOT accept as payment:

• Crypto "currency"
• "Exposure"
• Sexual favors

In short, anyone who advocates for a national crypto stockpile but not a national sweet potato pie stockpile is outside of their gosh darn mind.

@fifilamoura we spent some time in the 18th as well which had a lot of North African folks, really enjoyed those 2 areas and gave me a better appreciation of the diversity of Paris

Staying home on this important day on the American calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_Wednesday

Cool video of the 13th arrondissement in Paris. When I was last there I met some French Chinese Teochew people, mostly from Vietnam. It was super trippy to hear Teochew (Chiu Chow) in the streets and to be able to speak it at almost every shop. I had such great guides, from the French chapter of the global Gaginang Teochew community

https://youtu.be/NsU_QqSbaCk?si=iAotJw8mRmIN5V7F

#Paris #France #Travel #Chinatown #Teochew #ChiuChow