Notices by Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)

@forteller as a developing nation, the infrastructure for transit is poor. There are buses but it’s not extensive. Most people travel by motorbike

They don’t have enough other infra to go fully car free. People who bike are largely doijg it out of poverty, not as a chosen mode

Most expensive city in the world by many measures, developing world utilities

Vast majority of new private vehicles in Kathmandu are Chinese EVs. Apparently the tax situation is much better than a gas car (as an incentive), charging is plentiful and they get cheap hydro electricity

Same view this morning

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An architectural study of Taipei

#streetphotography #taipei #architecture

Taiwan National Day 🇹🇼

Also kind of wild to do this in a majority Buddhist country that’s not vegetarian

I’m in Pokhara, Nepal, a very popular place for starting a Himalayan trek or climb, and also popular for yoga and retreats for the crunchier types.

Someone’s (obviously a tourist) graffiti-ed vegan messages all across town; and the messages get increasingly conspiracy theorist.

Other than the message, which I largely agree with (we should eat less meat), what makes people think they should go to other countries and graffiti their messages all over?

If anyone from the developing world did that in your countries, we’d be arrested immediately.

@va2lam @atsuzaki mmm I’ve seen some dehydrated tofu maybe I’ll try that too

@dyckron Morinaga sells a shelf stable box of tofu that I don’t mind bringing when it’s a 1 night thing :) there is also
Dehydrated tofu

I also really dislike marshmallows

@jadp true!

@ellestad @va2lam I’ve been in large group camps where one or two people are in charge of the cooking and they don’t.. share my breakfast needs

I’ll start bringing my own stuff but also sometimes it’s weird not to do what the group is doing

@dyckron yeah I don’t like any sweet breakfasts so oats have gotta be savory for me, but this opinion is not shared by others except those of a similar cultural background..

After those experiences I formed a group chat with folks I know who like outdoorsy things in California.. and who like similar food as me. We plan to do things together and take turns prepping food.

However the group has also evolved into an ‘eating for fun’ group and we regularly do things like ‘let’s go to six taco trucks in Oakland at the same time!’

@va2lam I think I’ll try oats and bring a savory dashi powder to make a porridge. That
would work

The few times I went to do anything intensely outdoorsy in California, I didn’t really enjoy the communal food choices of my fellow hikers (sorry but I don’t like trail mix or oats or bland food, even when hiking)

After being in Nepal for a couple of days and hearing western trekkers complain about eating only rice and lentils for days

Maybe I should do outdoorsy things here!

I continue to be awestruck by this planet

#Nepal #Pokhara

Landing in Pokhara (ATR-72)

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@pisheng my dad put my super expensive jamon iberico that I hand carried from Spain.. in the freezer. He thought it was going to go bad. I was deeply upset