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Dave P Ruff

@davepruff.bsky.social

For friends only. Food & travel stuff. @daveruff.bsky.social for news and general rage.

Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Carbonara with spaghettoni (thicc spaghetti). With Pecorino Romano and Grana Padano and of course guanciale. Started by toasting some Tellicherry peppercorns. "Cheated" by using a stabilizer (corn starch), and man that made life easy to get a consistently creamy sauce!

Black peppercorns toasting on a carbon steel pan

Speghettoni Carbonara, finished and plated

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

물회, mul-hwe, spicy raw fish (and abalone) salad with veg and chojang. Add cold (iced!) beef broth and rice or noodles. Great for this sticky ass weather I'm having in Daegu rn (and why I don't like coming here in May) 👌Also, like $38 for 3 people including an order of tonkatsu I added!

Picture of 물회 (mul-hwe), a Korean spicey raw fish salad dish, surrounded by various side dishes (banchan) on a restaurant table

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

View from my current window in Korea (my "office" at my parent's place). Shitty day, but cool seeing low clouds on mountain tops

Cloud shrouded mountain top with small farms in the background, in the rain, seen through a window

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

First time in Hong Kong! Views of Victoria Park, Kowloon Bay, and Kowloon, from my hotel in Causeway Bay, near Wan Chai. Tomorrow, all the foods 🤤

View of Victoria Park, with Kowloon Bay visible in the distance, at sunset from a high story hotel window

View of Kowloon across Kowloon Bay at night from a high story window

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In Rotterdam today, last day in Europe, about to fly to Korea until almost June. Been here (Brussels actually) a week on bidness, will be working remotely in Korea for a while, but mostly just happy to be out of the States for as long as I can finagle it 🙄

Lighthouse at the harbor with Rotterdam's skyline in the far distance

Interesting architectural buildings on the riverfront in Rotterdam taken from a boat

Chicken satay smothered in peanut sauce with fried noodles and slaw on the plate

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Real fascist shit going on (email from our general counsel). Super happy I got my citizenship last year (for this exact sort of reason)

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My reading really drops off this time of year. Last year was BG3, no real reason for it this year. Also, peep those pagecounts per book--I was reading a lot of Brandon Sanderson, Stephen Erikson, 1200 page doorstoppers

Graph of books and pages read per month, dropping from almost 4500 pages read in Jan and Feb to 500 in March

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Dave P Ruff @davepruff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Welp, finally paying the price for taking action last year to not to get deported this year

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