yay! Javachik!
ION - I just offered to _pay_ dh to wash the pot where the Great Chili Incident of 08 took place. I can't go in there. I HATE cloves now.
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
hippocampus - Jan 15, 2008 5:15:41 pm PST #2505 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Fay - Jan 15, 2008 5:44:05 pm PST #2506 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
You put cloves in chili? Interesting. I'm more chili/cinammon/cumin/chocolate yself.
Hil R. - Jan 15, 2008 5:45:20 pm PST #2507 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm completely not a morning person. Coffee doesn't really help - it opens my eyes, but doesn't really make me much more alert. It generally takes me at least half an hour or so before I can reliably form words. (Oddly, my ability to type comes back to me earlier than my ability to talk does. Not sure why. But I can type complete sentences when I still have to really concentrate to say a word or two.)
I went and had Buddha's Delight for lunch, but I was reading and distracted until 1/2 way through an drealized there was no tofu in it. I asked and they don't put tofu in their Buddha's delight. Which I think is weird.
I've never seen tofu in Buddha's delight. Just vegetables.
Fay - Jan 15, 2008 5:52:18 pm PST #2508 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I give in! I give in! What the hell is 'Buddha's Delight'?
Because I'm guessing it's not incense and garlands of flowers, contrary to what one might think around these parts.
Hil R. - Jan 15, 2008 5:58:08 pm PST #2509 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I give in! I give in! What the hell is 'Buddha's Delight'?
Commom dish at Chinese restaurants. Vegetarian. Usually a bunch of vegetables, with either white or brown sauce. And, it seems, sometimes tofu.
Fay - Jan 15, 2008 6:15:14 pm PST #2510 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ah, okay. Is it an American Chinese thing, do you think?
Hil R. - Jan 15, 2008 6:20:22 pm PST #2511 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Probably.
In a few cities here, Indian Chinese food has been getting popular. It's restaurants that serve what's served as Chinese food at Chinese restaurants in India. Which is totally not what's actually eaten in China, but also totally not what's served at the typical American Chinese restaurant, either. It's pretty cool. (I've found one restaurant, in an Indian neighborhood in NJ, that sells vegetarian Indian Chinese food. Tried it once. Ended up with an eggroll wrapper wrapped around some sort of Indian-spiced vegetables. Interesting.)
brenda m - Jan 15, 2008 6:21:08 pm PST #2512 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wikipedia says not: Buddha's delight, often transliterated as Luóhàn zhāi, lo han jai, or lo hon jai, is a vegetarian dish well known in Chinese cuisine.
They also agree that it seems to be just about anything and everything:
The dish consists of various vegetables and other vegetarian ingredients (as well as sometimes also seafoods and eggs), which are cooked in soy sauce-based liquid with other seasonings until tender. The specific ingredients used vary greatly both inside and outside Asia.
Fay - Jan 15, 2008 6:22:08 pm PST #2513 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
It sounds very nice! I think that the 'Chinese Food' that we get in the UK (whilst very yummy) isn't neccesarily all that authentic to China.
brenda m - Jan 15, 2008 6:23:17 pm PST #2514 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Interesting stuff. It's the right time of year to try it out anyway:
It is traditionally served in Chinese households on the first day of the Chinese New Year, stemming from the old Buddhist practice that one should maintain a vegetarian diet in the first five days of the new year, as a form of self-purification. Some of the rarer ingredients, such as fat choy and arrowhead, are generally only eaten at this time of year.