Notices by Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org), page 7

Man some non music sounds defined the 90s. The Modem. The windows 95 startup sound. Aim door.

What are the sounds that are defining the 2020s?

@thomasfuchs man when I first installed a sound card for windows 95 wtf.
https://youtu.be/miZHa7ZC6Z0?si=yzA-TnYFn8BjpIzW

@thomasfuchs how many people would have sent a self addressed disk mailer.

@RickiTarr JEWISH AND MY ZIP CODE https://youtu.be/0F14NhnHWGA?si=nY0c-HNGfPMRXw3V

In the states there are generally two types of Taiwanese restaurants: street food bbtea spots, and casual restaurant fare. A lot of restaurants that serve Taiwanese food tend to be Chinese takeout restaurants that Taiwanese people opened and serve some distinctly Taiwanese dishes in the menu. Only more recently have some restaurants been explicitly calling themselves out as Taiwanese. Anyway. If you're in #Chicago , here are a couple dishes you'd find.

@Sempf https://infosec.exchange/@Sempf/110868623692148084

@Sempf Taipei Cafe has the most extensive Taiwanese menu in Chicago. Probably the most popular being popcorn chicken. Taiwanese cuisine utilizes a near ubiquitous spice blend 香粉 that is best described as 5-spice++. It ain't exactly five spice. It's close to it. But a lot is either marinated with it or finished with it. Popcorn chicken is where most people are introduced to it.

@Sempf oyster pancake (ohwah jian) is best described as a rice flour crepe with oysters in it, where you have a mochi texture with oysters. It's not for everyone, but if you want to get a texture that is almost never in western cuisine, this would be it.

@Sempf also not for everyone is pork intestine and oyster vermicelli (ohwah misua). The consistency of the broth is super thickened with corn starch with braised chitterlings. The oysters are dusted in rice flour before being quickly poached.

As an aside, if anybody tells me they like chitterlings but never had them at a Chinese restaurant dinner is on me.

@Sempf if you like pork belly at all and have had "bao" at some gastropub (is that still a term) this is the og. Gua bao is bao with braised pork, crushed peanut brittle, pickled mustard greens (a taiwanese staple) and cilantro. It's crunchy. It's fluffy. It's savory. It's sweet. It's a fucking party in your mouth.

@thomasfuchs memories are weird. I can see the guy's head bobbing and hands moving like he's playing a piano piece

@thomasfuchs dude wait was he asking someone to type stuff for him and the type guy looked just so happy?

@clacke @jamesthomson @stuart a-team?

@stuart @jamesthomson and then your COWORKER says "oh yeah I think I remember my dad talking about that"

@thomasfuchs multiple orgs are probably charging teams to make this work now

@cookie_mumbles we need good toddlers to stop them

People going apesshit on threads (from @parkermolloy )

@thomasfuchs are we talking farts are something more serious

Aw yeah curry beef turnover 咖哩餃 #Chinatown #Chicago

@thomasfuchs I bet the oven has a built in meat probe too

@thomasfuchs gonna get your fortune told?