The insects in the forest sound like cicadas. We have them here in summer and they're crazy loud. I always say it's like the trees are screaming! They're big bugs, but they're usually hidden in the trees.
I think you're right! I heard a few in the trees in the city here today and they're not that bad when there's just a few. But in the forest, gosh, it was creepy!
That's exactly what it sounded like - the trees were screaming! When the first one started it was just like, oh here's a weird insect that sounds like a little buzzsaw, but when they all started up it's like the whole forest was alive. Crazy stuff.
I can’t imagine just barging into the woods... it’s gotta be scary! I’m not for spicy food, so I wasn’t excited when I went to Chengdu/outskirts for a company trip a couple years back. *ahem*powerplayvisitingschoolsthatthebigbossdonatedtobuildaftertheearthquakedisaster*ahem kind of thing. Though we got housed in a pretty impressive hotel (bathroom and room separated by a glass wall only that can fog up and become non-transparent with the flip of a switch)..... the person I was roomed with decided to go with her Dad and so I got the room to myself. It was interesting. Though when we went back to the city (Chengdu) it was just miserable... I couldn’t eat anything, coz of all the spicy-ness, mobile network was dead as, China, and the actual itinerary got thrown out the window as somebody complained about something and so the whole group went to the Panda Headquarters Zoo thingamajig instead of wherever we were supposed to go....
It's so funny that for you the food is too spicy and for me it's too bland! Maybe we should swap notes and send one another to each other's restaurants next time.
Yesterday and today i got on a sharebike and just zoomed around the city and i remembered why i liked it the first time - not so much for the scenery or the food, but because of the "easiness". Like, it's not too big, not too small, it has some quiet bits, some loud bits, good transport. I think it'd be a nice place to live once you found a few favorite spots.
The pickled chili veg noodles look a lot like the Lao Gan Ma noodles from The Woks of Life that are currently my favorite lunch food. I hope they were just as delicious. :)
That is a great recipe. My favorite noodles of China are all similar to this recipe. You can find them all over in the south and west, usually called something like 凉面 (cold noodle) or 拌面 (stirred noodle). I love that each place puts their own spin on it (e.g. cilantro or zhe'ergen). It's always surprising to me that Chinese people eat so much instant ramen when you can get much more delicious fresh "instant" noodle for half the price from a street vendor.
One interesting thing is that they make a stong distinction between 面 (or 麵) miàn and 粉 fěn. In English those both translate to noodles, but in Chinese the former is noodles made from wheat and the latter is noodles made from rice, mung bean or sweet potato. They are considered completely different foods, which i guess makes sense because 面 noodles are drier and al dente, whereas 粉 noodles are slippery and oily.
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I’m not for spicy food, so I wasn’t excited when I went to Chengdu/outskirts for a company trip a couple years back. *ahem*powerplayvisitingschoolsthatthebigbossdonatedtobuildaftertheearthquakedisaster*ahem kind of thing.
Though we got housed in a pretty impressive hotel (bathroom and room separated by a glass wall only that can fog up and become non-transparent with the flip of a switch)..... the person I was roomed with decided to go with her Dad and so I got the room to myself. It was interesting.
Though when we went back to the city (Chengdu) it was just miserable... I couldn’t eat anything, coz of all the spicy-ness, mobile network was dead as, China, and the actual itinerary got thrown out the window as somebody complained about something and so the whole group went to the Panda Headquarters Zoo thingamajig instead of wherever we were supposed to go....
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Yesterday and today i got on a sharebike and just zoomed around the city and i remembered why i liked it the first time - not so much for the scenery or the food, but because of the "easiness". Like, it's not too big, not too small, it has some quiet bits, some loud bits, good transport. I think it'd be a nice place to live once you found a few favorite spots.
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I think one of the reasons i prefer deserts to forests is because you can see everything. If you're gonna die, at least you know you're gonna die.
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One interesting thing is that they make a stong distinction between 面 (or 麵) miàn and 粉 fěn. In English those both translate to noodles, but in Chinese the former is noodles made from wheat and the latter is noodles made from rice, mung bean or sweet potato. They are considered completely different foods, which i guess makes sense because 面 noodles are drier and al dente, whereas 粉 noodles are slippery and oily.
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