#鸡蛋

[heavendiary4u]

韩国鸡蛋面包 Korea Egg Bread

[buffetlicious]

Sis called to ask if we would like her to pack dinner for us. Since she is at Northpoint City, we went with Feng Food (台湾味 “丰”). Both mum and I ordered fried rice but with different toppings. Mum took the Fried Rice with Specially Marinated Pork Chop (招牌猪排蛋炒饭) while I went with Fried Rice with Crispy Chicken Cutlet (脆皮鸡腿蛋炒饭).

[floppydiskorigami]

study of some tomato and scrambled eggs (and chili crisp) for the last hours of @quezify’s eggtober💪

[tryingtopracticemyzhongwen]

波提欧。。。请回家（来家？不知道）。。。我已经花了55英镑

我觉得他恨我因为我骂了他一座鞋子山

对不起。。。原谅我。。。我不要伤害你

[nordseehexe]

鸡蛋柜诅咒

[neige-leblanche]

just forgot that my ao3 un is not in fact yanyan_nyanya anymore (has not been for years) & went looking around fruitlessly

[buffetlicious]

The castella cake popularity exploded in Singapore in 2017 with the opening of Taiwan's Le Castella's first Southeast-Asian outlet. With so many players jumping into the bandwagon, the bubble burst a few years later and one by one the stores started closing. Although the cake is still available, it is tough finding one that is near to you. Ah Mah Homemade Cake (阿嬷老字号) from Malaysia is still here but with only two physical shops in faraway places. They do have online shop, but I am not going to pay a S$12 delivery fee for anything less than S$80. I am not even convinced into buying 80 bucks worth of cake in the first place.

She happened to be around the vicinity of one of the shops and came home with this Ondeh Ondeh Castella Cake (S$13.50). The cake gets its aromatic flavour from freshly squeezed pandan leaves. Every bite is accompanied by thick and sweet gula melaka, and a fresh luscious coconut layer in the middle of the moist castella cake, then topped off with fragrant and toasted desiccated coconut.

[bedelicious-lifestyle]

2023.02.08.Chinese food for dinner #chinesefood #孜然牛肉 #番茄鸡蛋 #豆皮虾仁 #dinner #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #bedelicious #dinnertime #chinese (at Port Coquitlam, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CofLh31p4m5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[expressions-of-nature]

by 笨加鸡蛋

[lazypot-kitchen]

【美式起司炒蛋 】 Cheesy Scrambled Egg

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【美式起司炒蛋 】一种典型的西式炒蛋的料理。鸡蛋料理千變萬化，幾乎人人都喜歡，来试试滑嫩爽口的炒蛋！包你爱不释手！

Cheesy Scrambled Egg is a typical Western cuisine of scrambled eggs. Egg recipes are so versatile that almost everyone loves them. Try this scrambled egg cuisine that are tender and delicious! You would love it much!

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【主要食材｜Main Ingredients】

1）鸡蛋 Eggs. - 3粒/beats

2）起司 Cheese. - 1片/slice

3）牛奶 Milk. - 50毫升/ml

4）牛油 Butter. - 适量/ appropriate

【配料部分｜Side Ingredients】

1）欧芹 Parsley Flakes - 少许/ a pinch

2）盐 Salt - 少许/ a pinch

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【食材准备部分｜Preparation Ingredients】

1）首先，准备3粒鸡蛋。 First, prepare three eggs.

2）然后，将3粒鸡蛋打入碗中。 Then, crack three eggs into a bowl.

3）之后，把鸡蛋蛋散。 Beat the eggs and stir well.

4）过后，加入少许的盐 Next, add a pinch of salt.

5）然后，加入50毫升的牛奶 Afterwards, pour 50ml of milk.

6）最后，搅拌均匀。 Lastly, stir it well.

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【烹饪部分｜Cooking Part】

1）首先，打开电炉。 First of all, switch on the electric stove.

2）然后，把平底锅热一会儿。 Then heat up the pan for a while.

3）平底锅热后，调制小火。 While the pan is heat, turn over a low heat.

4）之后，在平底锅上再加入适量的牛油。 Then, add moderate amount of butter.

5）等待牛油融化 Waiting the butter to melt.

6）加入1片起司 Add one slice of cheese.

7）之后倒入蛋液 Then pour the egg mixture into it.

8）用小铲或者木铲不停的，轻轻的搅拌 Use spatula or wooden spatula to stir constantly and gently

9）等待蛋液成凝结和细化乳霜状 To make it become smooth and creamy.

10）稍微带点黏稠时，就可以关火啦！ When it slightly become sticky, turn off the heat.

11）最后，把蛋液倒入盘中。 Finally, dish the egg into a plate.

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【摆设部分｜Decorating Part】

1）撒点欧芹碎粉在蛋液上。 Sparkles with a pinch of parsley flakes on the egg.

2）最后，可以开动啦！ Lastly, enjoy your dish.

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【介绍美式起司炒蛋的秘诀】

1 | 美式炒蛋要用什么油？ What’s oil is suitable to cook American scrambled egg?

2 | 加牛奶、加奶油有什么区别？ What’s the difference to add in milk or butter in the scrambled egg?

3 | 用什么火候最合适吗？ What’s type of heat is most suitable to cook?

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[onxob]

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[foodffs]

Chinese Chive and Egg (韭菜炒鸡蛋) A classic Chinese dish that uses three ingredients and 10 minutes to create a satisfying main dish.

Recipe: https://omnivorescookbook.com/chinese-chive-and-egg/

[ineffable-opinions]

A Banned BL Series and A Banned BL Sub-genre

GaoGan (High Cadre, 高干) is a sub-genre of danmei, unique to BL from Mainland China. It involves characters who directly hold high position within the Communist Party (be it the political wing or the People’s Liberation Army) or are related to such characters.

Works belonging to this sub-genre was fairly common in the first decade of 2000. Now it's a banned sub-genre and we will get to the specifics of it and how that works.

A little bit about the society in which this sub-genre was created. Back then both Communist party members as well as military members could get away with pretty much anything. Society back then was a little bit more open to such practices and consequences for their actions were very limited. There was very little civilian oversight, so to speak. This meant that not only sons and daughters of high cadre but relatives including extended kin, held positions of power.

Naturally, it became a problem. For the State, I mean.

A lot of leaders now are kids of leaders from the past. They also hold in immense sway in all fields, both business and bureaucracy.

They can bag tenders and participate in those public private partnership projects and reap profits while outsiders would struggle. Laws could be bent and broken and no one could do anything to them. People suffer because of that. But you cannot really go to the police against them. Yeah, pretty messed up.

It is in this context that Addicted (你丫上瘾了) by Chai JiDan (柴鸡蛋) was first serialized. But it is in no way an extreme or a quintessential gaogan danmei. It's basically campus story in the first half with basic coming of age elements, highschoolers falling in love and lot of it is smut too.

But the threat of what their futures hold because of who they are especially Gu Hai, being the only son of his father who is a General, looms large even in first part. This is underplayed in the series compared to the novel.

Gu Hai grew up in that environment of power and reach. A lot of his rough nature is a product of such unbridled power that followed him from the cradle. His father is domineering. He is similarly domineering but with a holier-than-thou “kind” heart. He rebels against his father’s nature. He doesn't want to be the kind of person his father is. He is at the risk of becoming the monster he is fighting. He is extreme in his means, just as his father (and his late mother) and a bunch of other people such as Gu Yang and Gu Hai’s maternal uncle.

It is contrasted with how gentle and amicable Bai LouYin’s father and stepmother are, and how their lives are completely different. They don't really take any extreme steps and always pave path to reconciliation.

While Addicted sort of shows the contrast, it is not the highlight. There are novels which were written in the beginning of the millennium that showed extreme versions – focused on showing how bad it could get - be it of people getting away with that they should not get away with ideally and all sorts of bad things happening to people who have no control over their lives when it comes to people with power.

Corruption, nepotism and exploitation of power clearly are not good practices. The critique in Addicted is not on the face. It's very subtle. You need to understand what exactly is going on to understand the politics of Addicted. It is not just a random parent being despotic parent. It is because of very specific social setups. Gu Hai can coax, coerce and buy his way into changing public schools in the middle of semester, get Bai LouYin’s father a good job, treat officers on lower rungs as his personal servants and get things to work in his favour all because of the power he holds by just being General Gu’s heir. No one would dare to report his overreach because no one wants to offend General Gu lest he is less favorable to them in their time of need. Bai LouYin can avail benefits of switching schools and such since he is Gu WeiTing’s step-son.

What would give Gu Hai more power than being General’s son? Being a high cadre member himself. But doesn’t want that. From the beginning of the novel, Gu Hai rejects the military environment he grew up in. He doesn’t want to pursue his father’s footsteps.

Bai LouYin learns this when he pries into what Gu Hai wants to do with his life. Gu Hai makes it clear that he wants to pursue business. Bai LouYin dedicates his life to make that possible for Gu Hai. He does so by means joining PLA and thereby becoming his step-father’s protégé. In exchange, Gu Hai is free to live a free life. When he sets up his own manufacturing business, it is directly linked to supplying to the military and thus the exploitation of his connections that gives him a definite edge over his competitors from less privileged backgrounds continue – now as Bai LouYin’s brother too. So, he actually gets to become a rich man at a young age in his own right. It's not just Gu Hai whose business flourishes thanks at least in part to influence. Gu Yang and Gu Hai’s uncle (who seems to be powerful in his own right) too benefits from their connections.

It's something that Chai JiDan explores in a lot of her other works too, even though Counterattack and Advanced Bravely live action adaptations removed gaogan elements from turning characters into civilians.

That brings us to the de facto ban on gaogan. State doesn't want to encourage such kind of practices. It totally doesn't want it to be an aesthetic or a glorified romantic trope, especially in danmei.

Danmei actually have a mixed history with the State. Chinese government is notorious for crackdowns, jailing authors, shutting down websites, forcing self-censorship and purges that throttled danmei production and distribution. (More on this here.)

Lesser known is the part where State benefited from it. There was the shipping of real-life high cadre politicians.

Former Chinese President Hu Jintao and former Premier Wen Jiabao were shipped by fans. (source)

There were also the Little Pinks - groups of presumably (some critics argue that it is just a presumption) young women who are nationalistic verging on jingoism, who would endorse Chinese government and its policies on various platforms. They are called so because their brand of rhetoric first started in the danmei forum of JJWXC, a popular web-publishing platform. Little Pinks started out on this platform, scolding authors and readers who wrote what they didn’t agree with. They have pervaded other social media sites and are compared to the Little Reds of Cultural Revolution. Little Pinks captured public attention. They became quite an eyesore for the general public and other BL fans. But State machinery, especially its media, have showered them with praise on occasions.

State of things have changed over the years and there have been understandable public anger against the sort of behaviors high cadre politicians and their kin engaged in as well as the unfair advantage they enjoyed. The State had to curb nepotism and accumulation of power in the hands of those from political families. Exploitation of power couldn't explicitly depict or endorsed on media.  

The new rules are imposed through censors, self-censorship and editorial overreach and what not. Compared to earlier days of danmei, today’s BL production space looks very difference since sites have disappear. There used to be revolutionary potential, not just in terms of furthering the rights of the queer community but also in many other aspects of society. It has disappeared over the years through purging and authors growing tired. Popularization and commercialization of danmei actually did not benefit the way one would imagine. As BL fans’ grip over what they could say disappeared, a lot of new authors came in who from the very beginning were willing to adjust to these demands from the State and were writing to accommodate, if not outright support, what the State willed.

So, before the ban on gaogan, there was period where fics were written praising the high cadre and highlighting their goodness, generosity and patriotism while being perfect gentlemen, paragons of virtue, upright citizen who valiantly fought enemies of the State, both internal and external.

When it aired, Addicted was fairly popular. By his own admission, Andy Lau was watching it. While exact reason for the ban is not known, there is a lot of speculation. One of the most cited reasons is simply its popularity and how that attracting attention to queer people (through the pairing of a very masculine men who were unlike the stereotypical “sissies”) and queer rights.

Another was the substance abuse related words in title and ship name such as shangyin and hailouyin which is another topic that State scrutinizes. But then A Round Trip to Love had multiple criminal elements including spiking, confinement and sexual abuse that aired.

It's not like gaogan genre just died. Authors went interstellar on their stories. So now when you open Addicted in LCRead you will be greeted by an intro page which claims that the story is not set on Earth and is set in another galaxy blah blah blah. Lot of later authors actually decided to pursue the safe, sci-fi route and decided to stick to lanes that would let them tell these stories without actually irritating the State.

This work around method will last while it can.

Quite frankly, Addicted couldn't have been made in other countries with its very specific political setting. Its essence lies in Bai LouYin joining PLA to help Gu Hai forsake the path laid out for him and Gu Hai repaying with devotion while alternatively sinking and floating in high cadre life as son, brother and husband. This won’t work in countries with mandatory military service or where military and politics interweave in a dangerous manner.

Honestly, I am not knowledgeable about Thailand to interpret what it means for Hero to walk out of ror dor (army cadet) exam (thank you @pharawee for the explanation). Also, Thai government is fully dedicated to their plan of using BL as a soft power tool. I am not sure how to feel about the Thai adaptation, Heroin the series, given the production chose to situate the beginning of the story in 2018* (four years after 2014 coup d'état). Addicted becoming a propaganda tool in favor of military at the hands of any State is a disturbing scenario to say the least.

*There is a eight year break in the relationship between the main couple in the original novel.

Seems like second season isn't happening. Makes me wonder...

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Link to novel translations.

[nhu-an]

“很久前听过的一段话：

人生的至暗时刻，大道理没用，鸡汤没用，蛋糕可乐奶茶火锅都没用，甚至家人和朋友们的爱也只能减缓焦虑却不能击退黑暗，真正把我从深渊里拉出来的，是我自己。没有人知道那段时光里我经历了什么，一分一秒熬过去之后，就已经不是从前那个自己了。

这个世界上，最困难的时候，���往只有自己能把自己从泥潭中拉出来。没有人能替你承受痛苦，也没有人能替你感受幸福。”

Rất lâu trước đây tôi từng nghe được một đoạn:

Trong những khoảnh khắc đen tối của cuộc đời, những đạo lí vĩ đại cũng vô dụng, món súp gà cũng vô dụng, bánh ngọt, coca, trà sữa hay lẩu cũng vô dụng, thậm chí tình cảm gia đình và bạn bè cũng chỉ làm vơi đi chứ không thể đẩy lùi bóng tối, người thực sự kéo tôi bước ra từ vực thẳm là chính bản thân tôi. Không một ai biết được trong thời khắc đó tôi đã trải qua những gì, sau khi vượt qua từng phút từng giây ấy, tôi đã không còn là tôi của trước kia nữa.

Trên thế gian này, thường chỉ có chính mình mới có thể kéo bản thân ra khỏi bùn lầy. Không ai khác có thể thay cậu gánh chịu đau khổ, cũng như chẳng ai khác có thể thay cậu cảm nhận hạnh phúc.

- Như An dịch.