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Chinese Cooking Demystified

@mthmchris.bsky.social

We share Chinese recipes and sometimes other stuff. YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/chinesecookingdem… Substack: chinesecookingdemystified.substack.…

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Chinese Cooking Demystified @mthmchris.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In Chungking Express, there is a snack bar with a lineup of sauces. Any good guesses on what the sauces are? This is based on a real snack shop called Midnight Express in LKF in Hong Kong (closed in early 00s), with mixed Western/Indian offerings.

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Chinese Cooking Demystified @mthmchris.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In the late 00s there was a “26 page brownie recipe” from the US army that was bouncing around the internet, maybe you’re thinking of that? unredacted.com/2010/05/28/d...

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Document Friday: The Military’s (26 Page) Brownie Recipe.

If you can read all the way through today’s hot doc, it has the potential to be tasty. It’s the 26-page recipe for the military specification brownies that our troops eat. This one ha…

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Chinese Cooking Demystified @mthmchris.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In China sometimes showers aren’t separated from the rest of the bathroom, for space reasons (and shower curtains often get moldy in the climate). This is a screen so that shower water doesn’t get on a smart toilet.

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Chinese Cooking Demystified @mthmchris.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Mostly here because I periodically like catching up on the work of @michaelpettis.bsky.social, who (thankfully) posts here in addition to the bloated husk of X. Possible I may post on BlueSky in the future, but I'm still mulling over whether these platforms are good for my brain or not :)

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