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Kinda, but nowadays it’s all filtered in so even in a mass market supermarket you can get some decent ingredients. Like anything else not common to the local palate, you have to pay. Kale is ridiculously expensive, for example.

If you’re worried about authenticity, probably compare notes with native cooks, but more importantly, check to see if the ingredients are correct. Very easy to get bastardised ingredients; as an example, living in an Asian country, I used to have a hell of a time getting the right herbs and vegetables for doing certain Western dishes with, and very common to get some pre-packaged “mix” of herbs instead.

My only complaint of the photo is I’m not seeing more of the innards of the sandwich! Or the height of it! Sounds like a nicely stacked one.

Singapore. Mala has really taken off in the past several years. Every hawker centre, food court and mall will have one of such places.

Well, not in everything, but mala-style food has really exploded here in the past 3-4 years, and very often when walking near any eatery I’ll get a whiff of that! Imagine if everywhere smelled like fried chicken.

How’s the mala sensation on this? Just a bit? Szechuan peppercorns are everywhere here nowadays and I’m a little wary of it as a result. xD

Eh, if the food isn’t falling off your plate when you eat it, that works.

That’s awesome, I just subbed to this community after stumbling on a post in the general feed. Looking forward to everyone’s posts, and I’ll share when I can!

Sure, definitely use what works for you. I do like it as a phone messenger that happens to have a functional desktop client (Telegram and surprisingly, Whatsapp do have better desktop clients).

I don’t see the problem with that, it’s a phone messenger first.

What’s wrong with Signal?

Yes, that’s because it’s not an Impossible burger. Now that one… comes really close.

Ooof, that does sound scary. I see that you’ll be continuing to refine the recipe and process. Look forward to future updates from you!

Thanks for sharing, wasn’t aware you can use a tawa (or similar) to approximate a tandoor. Will give that a go one day!

How’d you do those without a tandoor oven?

I think these are buns, as per the title, just baked. Do dim sum restaurants do baked buns? I thought it’s either steamed buns or pastry puffs, which are “sou”, vs buns (“bao”).

Just read the interview on The Verge, it seems that ActivityPub is a separate thing.

Eh, so it’s not running on ActivityPub? I got the impression it was.

It looks really well done. Like someone asked, how long have you all been doing this?

These have been going on for a long time, the author kinda makes a mention to it, with a reference to MS’s long playbook of “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish”. IE’s growth, MS breaking Java, Office dominance; all had examples from that playbook. While MS hasn’t used it that much now compared to the past, don’t trust any Big Tech company to not do it when the opportunity presents itself.