this morning I walked into our front yard to find our wire fence strewn across our yard, and a bunch of our garden plants torn up and pushed around. while I was making wild guesses as to what happened a bird pooped on my forehead. so I guess I'm living in a TV show today
22.12.2022 21:24this morning I walked into our front yard to find our wire fence strewn across our yard, and a bunch of our garden plants torn up and pushed...shout out to Foto Express in San Jose for both developing these and gently reminding me to use flash haha
22.12.2022 08:55shout out to Foto Express in San Jose for both developing these and gently reminding me to use flash hahai recently started shooting with a Kodak Ektar H35, which is a cheap beginners' film camera. enjoying the results so far (especially how 90's everything looks)
22.12.2022 08:54i recently started shooting with a Kodak Ektar H35, which is a cheap beginners' film camera. enjoying the results so far (especially how...If you have product design jobs open, send them over my way please? Got a bunch of friends affected by various Stripe, Twitter, Meta layoffs who could use them.
10.11.2022 16:56If you have product design jobs open, send them over my way please? Got a bunch of friends affected by various Stripe, Twitter, Meta layoffs...As always, a taco platter from Cardenas Supermarkets is going to feed my wife and me for cheap this week. A nice respite given the stress of elections.
9.11.2022 07:42As always, a taco platter from Cardenas Supermarkets is going to feed my wife and me for cheap this week. A nice respite given the stress of...Anyway, it figures that my first posts on sfba.social are about Chinese food! 😅 If I ever meet y'all in person, let's grab some grub and I'll happily listen to all your food opinions. And maybe I'll make a chow mein sandwich for ya.
7.11.2022 22:40Anyway, it figures that my first posts on sfba.social are about Chinese food! 😅 If I ever meet y'all in person, let's grab some...The history of American Chinese food is also the history of Chinese Americans. Enduring the centuries, fending off (literal) exclusion, and taking up space to reinterpret and take back our own identities.
Restaurants like Mister Jiu's or Nice Day are more than reinventions of American Chinese food: they're political statements on what it means to be Chinese American.
7.11.2022 22:36The history of American Chinese food is also the history of Chinese Americans. Enduring the centuries, fending off (literal) exclusion, and...Take the chow mein sandwich. Regional to southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, it's something my younger self would definitely have called "inauthentic."
But it was Chinese immigrants who created this in the 1930s. They mixed crispy noodles with brown gravy and slapped on burger buns. The result? Something that appealed to New Englanders and almost reminded Chinese immigrants of home.
They even started their own factory to manufacture the noodles. It's still around today!
7.11.2022 22:21Take the chow mein sandwich. Regional to southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, it's something my younger self would...Growing up, I sniffed at American Chinese food like honey walnut shrimp and cream cheese wontons. It wasn't until adulthood that I realized American Chinese food is food of adaptation, of survival -- of redeveloping so-called "authentic" dishes with ingredients at hand, or to make a living.
As Lucas Sin says, American Chinese food IS Chinese food -- it's regional Chinese food.
7.11.2022 22:11Growing up, I sniffed at American Chinese food like honey walnut shrimp and cream cheese wontons. It wasn't until adulthood that I...