My special interest is food and cooking. Tell me yours and I will come up with a food item inspired by it. No AI, no ripping recipes off the internet, just me and my brain on the spot.
(also tell me anything you don't want)
Not in like a nationalist or supremacist way, but just a genuine fascination and desire to learn more. Growing up in the diaspora, I was always disconnected from my roots and faced a lot of racism, especially during COVID. It's only in the recent years have I started consciously exploring that side of me (especially the culinary side). Anyone else experience this?
(pics from my past trips)
EDIT: pics in order because people are asking:
Chongqing freshly pounded sticky rice cakes (sorta like mochi) with brown sugar syrup and peanut dust
A food hall (they're everywhere) with meat, tofu, and seafood skewers that you buy by the stick and they pour chili oil on top
Chongqing taro ice cream, see my other comments
Shanghai braised beef with veggies and five spice
Suzhou tangyuan, mini sticky rice balls in a warm taro puree with cream and osmanthus flowers (+ginger lattes). Not pictured: a variation with black sesame instead of taro
Shanghai crab roe noodles with pickled veggies and a cold white fungus jelly dessert
Tianjin sweet and spicy fried fish
Tai'an hot pot with three flavored broths, beef, fish, tofu skins, tripe, and veggies (+ grass jelly, brown sugar, and hawthorne candy dessert)
Peking duck with the wrapping and toppings (cucumber, cantaloupe, bean paste, onion, berry sauce)
Wuhan street candy, hot sugar hand-pulled into delicate threads dusted with peanuts
Tianjin street breakfast near my mom's childhood home with various items. I got the jianbing, a classic Tianjin breakfast consisting of an egg-and-scallion crepe wrapped around fried dough with black bean paste and chili crisp, served with a silken tofu-and-shiitake soup and warm soy milk
Not what they grew up on, but what they invented or changed once they reached adulthood, hence why Gen Alpha isn't here
Ciao,
I began learning Italian about 7 months ago for my Italian partner.
Well, we broke up. Technically it was mutual but to say I'm not taking it well would be an understatement. I've been laying in bed listening to sad songs nonstop these past two weeks while replaying our relationship in my head.
I haven't been able to look at any of my learning material. I hid the apps from my home screen and turned my TV subtitles back to English.
I don't wanna drop it completely. It's a beautiful language but everything reminds me of her. And I'm worried if I take a break I'll forget stuff because I'm still a beginner.
Has this ever happened to any of you? Or was I learning the language for all the wrong reasons in the first place? I just don't know where to go from here.