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lapeaudelamemoire · 5 years

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Day I don’t know how many of stocking up week.

Yesterday the Victorian government abruptly declared that all non-essential services would be shut down over the next 48 hours, prompting me to go, Right, time to think about everything I could possibly need or even want to occupy me in staying in besides just food, including anything I might need around the house.

Didn’t get everything I wanted yesterday because it was Sunday and things like Daiso where I get a good amount of my home items shut earlier even in normal times, and because it was such sudden news yesterday as to catch me unprepared; and went back again today, partially also to make sure the Asian groceries weren’t shutting indefinitely because I don’t know what they’re classified as - supermarkets, or whether they’re considered non-essential outside of the ‘main’ Western supermarkets.

Today the government announced that shopping centres were exempt from the shut-down and considered ‘safe places’, so shops within shopping centres like Melbourne Central can stay open if they want. I don’t understand this, especially as the city is technically full of, or at least I would imagine what would count as, shopping centres: Bourke Street Mall, Emporium, Midtown Plaza; and they’re no less places where people go to socialise by shopping.

Apparently cafes and restaurants are allowed to operate, on a take-out and delivery only basis, based on news given out today. On top of that, services like hairdressers and beauticians are apparently allowed to operate too.

Yesterday when passing by the Asian grocery shop I frequent with Peter I saw the nice cashier who works there who recognises me, and went to say hello. They’re selling face masks, as are many shops in Chinatown, and have started a new policy of giving away 2 masks to seniors over 60. We don’t fit this demographic, but I went to say hello in case I didn’t see the nice cashier again for a while, and also because Peter thought of getting a mask, which they’re now allowing to be sold individually. He told me to take several and that he would charge me cheaply for them, so I took five, including the one to give to Peter. He charged me for one, also forgoing the card payment surcharge of 30 cents.

On dropping me home we noticed the Japanese restaurant owner in his shop. I hadn’t thought he would be opening again considering the announcement the government had made earlier that day; we dropped in to say hi. I asked if he would like a couple of disposable face masks, and he said yes. I gave him two, and gave another to Peter, which left me with one for myself, but which didn’t seem too much of an issue, especially since I was going back in the area again today.

The cafe on the corner from mine isn’t open on Sundays, so today I went to have a look to see if there was a sign or something that would tell me if they were going to be closed indefinitely too. They were open, but for takeaways only. I caught the owner and had a chat with him, who told me that they would be open, but only on weekdays, and mentioned that he had ordered some masks from China for his employees, but which he wasn’t sure when would arrive. It occurred to me that I could get some for him from the grocery, and said so. He said he would wait on it, so I told him the offer stood. On my way to the tram stop today to get into the city I passed by the Japanese restaurant; he was open, and told me the same, that he would be open, only that this morning it was announced that it was take-outs and delivery only, no more dining in. I asked if he would like any more masks, and he said it would be good to have some more, so I told him I’d get some on my trip out today. He gave me $50 and asked for at least 10, or a box or two if possible.

The supermarkets have been in the news non-stop for being picked clean of many supplies, but I know Daiso sells wet wipes among their many products, which we hadn’t made it to yesterday; Peter had mentioned wanting some too. On my way I noticed the Korean lady here for two months on holiday selling prints of her art on the street, whom I wasn’t sure would still be out and about, so I got some cash out to buy something in case I wouldn’t be seeing her again. I saw a homeless lady, so gave her some change, which I remembered to bring today, but whom was coughing; which meant I had to wash my hands. I went into a building to ask for the washroom, but was told I would have to go across the street somewhere else I didn’t know, so I went into the next building to ask, and was redirected again into the next building. It stuns me that there are no easily accessible publically available washrooms in so many buildings in the city; this is in stark contrast to Singapore, where one would only have to walk into just about any building and be able to find one. Instead, I found myself, in the middle of this pandemic, not knowing where I could go to wash my hands.

I managed to find the washroom the last lady I’d asked had directed me to, which involved going into the elevator to get to the third floor; thankfully, there were other people going up, and I hadn’t to touch anything. The washrooms were accessible only past several doors, one of which had a pull handle, which I managed by hooking my last finger at the point it connects to my hand round the bar and pulling.

It then occurred to me that I should somehow sanitise my bag handle if possible, which I might have brushed, so I went to the chemist downstairs and asked if they had some disinfectant spray, which I also have need of in using to additionally disinfect my contact lens case daily. The shop assistant I asked responded rather huffily, that they hadn’t any, and walked off, understandably but also rather unhelpfully, since I still need it nonetheless for said reason above. I thought to look in the baby section for some wipes, but they hadn’t any either. I asked a very helpful assistant if there was anything disinfecting at all on the pretext of a baby nephew hoping this would be less frustrating and he was nice enough to offer me a small bottle of hand sanitiser, which I took for Peter, who had been looking for some to no avail, and a bottle of eucalyptus oil saying I could dilute it and put it in a spray bottle, when I asked about the lavender oil spray below it, which he told me also had disinfectant properties. I bought that just so I would hopefully have something I could carry with me, even if it wasn’t quite entirely disinfecting spray. I still felt very bad about gingerly giving the bit of change to the homeless lady, which made me feel like I was being very discriminatory.

I bought a few things from the Korean lady, and asked if she would continue to be out; she said yes. I asked her if she would perhaps like some face masks, since I was on my way to get some, and she said perhaps 10. I stopped by Daiso on the way and stocked up as indiscriminately as I could balance while still trying not to blow the bank on things Peter and I could do which we had discussed for my possibly going over to stay with him for a while during this period of prolonged increased staying in so we weren’t too isolated, and home supplies, concerned that they would not be allowed to open past today, being unsure of what their business is classified as. They told me they weren’t sure and had heard nothing from management, and that they were working tomorrow, or at least were still expected to. I paid what turned out to be just-under $100 feeling like I was splurging a lot, but I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, and I figured it would be better to have it and that at least we might be able to put it to use, since the idea is that we can take the time in picking up new crafts or skills; only it still feels like I’m being reckless with my money.

I walked through to Chinatown and had a look round for the most cost-efficient masks, which turned out still to be at my usual grocer’s: a box of 50 for $80. I bought a box on my card and went to check at the other Daiso in the QV shopping centre for some wet wipes, which they hadn’t had at the one I’d stopped at. They hadn’t any, but on my way I noticed that the other shops were open, and stopped in one to ask about that. They told me they were opening tomorrow and hadn’t heard to close down for the time being from management.

So I went off to the last Daiso at the end of town where I go to catch my tram home - they don’t communicate stock between stores, and there are two different managements, so one has to go in person store-by-store to find what one wants - stopping to give 10 masks to the Korean lady, who gave me an extra dollar for them. The last Daiso hadn’t any wet wipes either.

Yesterday I’d gotten some contact lens cases from the stall where I got these coloured ones for the few pairs I’d ordered online elsewhere, but which haven’t updated past being in a facility in Malaysia since last Friday on the tracking site. I’ve got a month of my regular daily ones left, and this pair, which is what prompted me to get these in the first place, and also what prompted me to get more, since it’s recommended to only keep them for 3 to 6 months if you use them often, and to save my usual ones, I’ve been wearing these a lot. I also don’t feel particularly comfortable wearing these so often without giving them a rest, especially daily, which was why the extra pairs, which works out cheaper than a year’s worth of my month-long boxes of daily ones. At this point it occurred to me that perhaps I should think about getting another pair from the same stall so I could at least switch between them if what I had ordered ends up stuck somewhere, and while I was there yesterday they had been working on the assumption of today being the last day they were able to open, so back I went again to Melbourne Central.

Walking through the mall and the rest of the city some shops and chains like Lush had independently decided to close indefinitely, but some, mostly Asian-run stores, were open. They told me that, being within the shopping centres, they were allowed to stay open. The contact lens stall told me the same, and said if I wanted to think about it a bit more, they were still able to operate until told otherwise.

On my way back to the tram stop again I rang M, who’s in Queensland till Saturday, which as of today is tentatively shutting its borders dependent on whether or not the federal government decides on keeping schools open in the next few days; so far, Victoria hasn’t shut its borders, but several states already have. While on the call I passed by a homeless lady I gave some bread to yesterday, but walked past after waving, being tired and hungry from not having had anything to eat, since I’d rushed to go into the city working on the assumption that shops might be closing up today according to the 48-hour shutting down initiation announced yesterday, and felt bad about going off like that without stopping or being able to offer her anything to eat. In hindsight, I could have offered her some change, but at the time I was worried about having been in the city for quite some time having taken the Japanese restaurant owner’s $50 with me, and wanted to go back quickly.

I got back and took 5 out for myself - the grocery shop ladies had waved goodbye telling me to take care of myself and start wearing a mask, which I had so far approached on the advice of not wearing unless sick, but which had been increasingly weighing on my mind. He gave me $60 for the remaining 35 of them and asked what I wanted to eat, being that I had agreed before leaving to the city that I’d get some food when I got back. He reminded me that I would have to take it away and I jokingly said he could say I was his goddaughter, since he’d remarked that eating it behind the counter probably wouldn’t count when I had been by earlier in the day, to which he replied wasn’t he too old to have such a big goddaughter, and said a colleague would be more appropriate. I sat down to wait anyway, and he told me to have a drink of water. In the end he brought me the food in a bowl.

There were much fewer people in the city today, including homeless people. I don’t know where they’ve gone. As of today, or at least late last night past midnight, the government hasn’t said anything explicitly about homeless people or any measures being taken for them. The only thing mentioning homeless people has been in an economic package to tide those potentially facing homelessness or workers who might become homeless due to the pandemic, but nothing I could find about existing homeless people. I thought about maybe going back again to buy some masks to give to them, but there are other considerations about that too, like whether or not they would want them or how they would feel about them, or how they might feel about me giving it them, or even that they’re only disposable ones, and where would they get more or wash non-disposable ones, even if I were to get those? I don’t know either where or how they would be able to get food, unless eateries were willing to distribute some to them for free, but giving them some bread that I bought yesterday doesn’t seem like a feasible or sustainable long-term plan for me or for them either.

Tomorrow my tutorials start up again, but online; and the tutorial tomorrow is a graded quiz that constitutes 10% of my grade. M is talking like he’ll still be coming back Saturday, or intends to find some way of doing so if things change, but I don’t know how well any of that will go. The Asian grocery store says they’ll stay open as a supermarket, and I hope that will be the case. As of today most retail appears to be moving online wherever possible, on varying platforms. Part of my concern about running to Daiso was the fact that they don’t have an online site from which I can shop.

Every Chinese business owner I’ve spoken to has condemned the Australian government’s lack of just imposing a complete lockdown for a few weeks or a month directly, so that at least businesses can plan accordingly; and the contradictory measures it’s been rolling out, chock-full of exemptions. It’s a stance I agree with, which would cut out all this uncertainty on a day-to-day basis, which is how they’re operating - reactionary, rather than taking strong measures preventatively, which has been what has created the current situation and rise in cases to begin with. The whole affair has been pervaded by a lack of consensus. Better to shut everything down for two weeks or even a month, and then we’ll know where we stand, they say to me, but even in an article I read over dinner from an Australian newspaper on how among those identified as having been in contact with someone infected with the virus have been told to ‘self-quarantine on a voluntary basis’, some have been found not to be complying and so need to be ‘urged to remember their commitment to the community’ by task forces now being set up for this purpose, but which remains still as being couched in ‘voluntary compliance’ with a dose of ‘imposing measures’. The only general agreed take is that we’re looking at at least the next six months of no more dining in eateries and a prolonged period of social distancing, yet these are spoken of under the glow of ‘more liberal measures’, priding themselves on ‘democratic responsibility’ even though there’s increasing pressure for school closures that have yet to materialise.

My Italian friend simultaneously has also drily pointed out that the approach of ‘not being like Italy’ that is supposedly guiding the Australian government’s response to the crisis should be to take more stringent and enforced shut-down measures. Meanwhile, Scott Morrison has been admonishing and naggingly ‘urging citizens’ to self-isolate without actually putting it down as an order. Out of all the other countries at this moment dealing with the crisis, Australia looks the most lackadaisical and haphazardly inept, in my opinion.

Under this cloud of unclear demands without being backed up by sanctioned law no one really seems to know where things stand. Only today have articles come out on the lines of supermarkets’ apparent ‘slowly returning to normal’, against all the previous days of frantic announcements of having holes punched through their stock and consecutive openings to a flood of people being told things are out of stock or immediately having shelves picked over.

It’s 1.30am and I should be sleeping but I have been compelled to chronicle the weird escalating panic haze each day of this past week. I know that against all the importance of staying in at this juncture I have been running outwards into the city every day, yet most pointedly, even now, there are things I haven’t been able to get, even going all about several places each day. The telco company that has been taking money from me each month has now shut down its call centres in lieu of the virus outbreak. I can’t call my bank until I’ve spoken to them, so I’ve emailed instead.

I don’t know what to say other than that the manner in which the government has been handling this pandemic has found me only able to respond as incrementally as it has been doing so itself. I feel unjustified in what I have been doing yet it has entirely been driven by wanting to ensure that I am well-equipped in every possible way to hunker down as well as trying to do something for other people too. I don’t know if this is right, or okay, or justifiable, and I certainly don’t want to take the stance of pushing it as “but I’m doing this for other people!” but I just want to make sure everyone is fine, and if that means things like the cafe around the corner not getting masks because of delayed freight delivery, when I could go into the city and buy some for them, I would like to do it.

I don’t know if that is acceptable. Saying it makes it feel like I’m trying to make myself look good, and maybe I know I should have stayed in, and not run around.

Under the rules set out by the government I am not breaking any of them - the government has laid out restricting travel to essential trips like going to the shops, which is everything I have been doing. I am allowed to buy food and coffee from the shops around me. I am allowed to go outside. But I am also perfectly aware that I have been going outside, every day. I feel like I should have gotten it done all in one go, maybe. At least over the last two days, this has been mitigated by the government’s sudden and vague announcements, preceded by the vague and open-ended uncertainty of the days before that. Yet it also feels wrong to say that ‘things just happen’ or ‘it only occurred to me just now’ in a series of realisations of things as a basis, like realising that I want to be able to have comfort food, or that I should go visit and support the shops around me that I usually neglect because they’re there when the virus ramped up, or that I need to stock up on more than just groceries if I’m going to stay at home for a prolonged period of time that I might not be able to get easily later.

I went back through my last week of trips out and tallied it up; starting on the day I realised my camera battery charger had broken and I needed a new one.

Monday, day one: getting a new camera battery charger, and getting some groceries and quick trip to Daiso for pre-existing craft items on shopping list on the way, also treated myself to some bubble tea, which I no longer get on a regular basis. This was like normal trip-into-city/grocery shopping stocking up.

Tuesday, day two: Hearing about the virus getting worse and realising I should go get a coffee and a meal at the cafe and restaurant that I usually don’t do because of saving money or just out of the taking for granted their being there, and therefore went to sit down for a coffee in the cafe and had a read. Listened to both the lectures for the unit on this day at home. Did the bulk of the week’s house chores while doing so over the course of the day.

Wednesday, day three: Had intended to get lunch and a coffee from the cafe and have a bit more of a read, then go home to listen to the two previous weeks’ lectures for the unit I have on this day, but went too late to be able to sit down and had to just take coffee away. Suddenly reminded of my craving for Taiwanese sausages, which is comfort food or food I regularly eat at home - rather than just having the usual food, which mostly consists of basics and non-descripts, like the meals I’ve been making lately with instant noodles or the most usual dumplings - and which are very expensive here; delivery is also especially expensive from the shops that sell them individually: $4.50 for a single one, and delivery is usually $7; so went into the city directly with my takeaway coffee to get some for before/to make lunch at home with while watching the lectures first instead of going home. Ended up stocking up on comfort foods to make at home because I found none to-go. I’d been trying to cut down on getting delivery for a while at this point, and had started to make food at home more. For some time, maybe a few months, I’d been getting delivery for almost every meal because I was in a funk, and that took a huge chunk into my expenses monthly, unsurprisingly. Made lunch with what I’d gotten and listened to the two lectures from the previous two weeks for the unit upon returning home. In retrospect, likely was further partially motivated to get the comfort food and want it in the first place because I don’t like that lecturer’s way of lecturing and find it difficult to get through, plus the thwarted early closing of the cafe preventing my plan for coffee, so wanted to have a nice thing about the day. It paid off very well; I enjoyed the food very much, and now have a small store of the remaining Taiwanese sausages for personal cooking at home. Probably wasn’t thinking about it so consciously at the time of leaving for the city, but would absolutely have gotten to a point of wanting comfort food that was easily available to me and to be made or have at home in self-isolation, and definitely became the point of my trip to get comfort foods once I got to the grocery shop. Was also the day I found out about the other Asian grocery store from nice cashier guy at the regular place where they have a frozen food section entirely dedicated to vegetarians, which I got something from for M. So maybe not super thought-out or intentional at the time but important in stocking food for M.

Thursday, day four: Realising just how quiet it is for the restaurant and committing to go again while I can while renewing my appreciation for their food, so went for dinner on said thought. Also possibly/probably when I went to get the mosquito spray because I was being bitten to death. Otherwise stayed at home and used the clay gotten from Daiso on Monday, before realising I had bought the wrong type of clay.

Friday, day five: Went to have sit-down coffee and lunch that I had missed out on on Wednesday at the cafe. Second ‘regular’ grocery store trip, third trip for groceries overall counting the specific trip for home-dish foods. Noted in post made on this day that it was to have a look for some things like Epsom salts that I hadn’t gotten on the first trip; due to it not being in the Asian grocery’s stock and not having gone to the supermarket before this, being that most of my shopping in the city is done at Asian grocer. Express supermarket on limited stock doesn’t have it, so hadn’t gotten it the night before. Also went in to get the right type of craft clay from Daiso. Went to look for some other food I thought I might want to keep and got snacks to give to M’s family. Restaurant owner saw me and asked me to stay for dinner.

Saturday, day six: Realised the charge on my bank card for the mobile phone plan I thought had been a pre-paid SIM card buy two years ago. Went outside to check at the convenience stores I might have bought it at. Also stopped at a couple shops on Bridge Road that remained open along the way to convenience store there having not been down Bridge Road for months. Saw Peter for dinner at restaurant. Took the opportunity of having Peter around to get more hangers that I’ve needed for a long time but always put off and finally came around to realising I need from Kmart, aka going on a bit of a wild goose chase. Didn’t make it to the supermarket to ask about SIM card on time because of new supermarket trading hours.

Sunday, day seven: Government announcement that all non-essential services to be shut down over the next 48 hours. Went into the city to get everything I thought I could possibly need that wouldn’t be available from supermarkets, including make-up, crafts, home wares, home supplies, accessories, etc., that I might want or make use of during time staying in on activities like cleaning up the house and putting things up, doing more self-photography again, and crafts; also essential things like contact lens cases for what I had ordered. Rung Peter to say we should maybe go out one last time to dinner before it would no longer be possible to do so. Went by the supermarket to ask about SIM card. Also took the opportunity to buy and give bread to homeless people on the expectation of not going back into the city too much more after this coming week in lieu of likely forthcoming lockdown or self-isolation.

Monday, day eight, today: Expected last trip into the city on the assumption that everything except supermarkets would be closed. Went to get everything I didn’t manage to get yesterday because I was in too much of a hurry. Turns out yesterday night was in fact the last night we were allowed to dine out; expected plans to have dinner with Peter while visiting the Hong Kong cafe I like to support them therefore cancelled. Everything mentioned above.

Mostly every day’s trip except for Monday and Wednesday started out with visiting cafe and restaurant, which also was about getting news and updates on how they were going and whether or not they were staying open. Will likely continue although potentially not every day.

Actually every stop in every shop has also partially been about getting news about how and what’s going on. It’s part browsing and part trying to support them by buying something, although this doesn’t always happen, i.e. I don’t always buy something, but usually they’re shops I have been to before and that might have something I want, plus gauging what I do need or want to get and where or how I might.

I expect one more trip into the city on Wednesday to see if the Asian grocer will have remained open and possibly to get more masks that might be shared from there. Also potentially to get another pair of contact lenses to protect my eyes. Unsure of border controls around Malaysia or the possibility of Australia shutting its borders even to deliveries. May try to ask if a friend would like to come over to my place for takeaway dinner from Japanese restaurant, which had originally been a date for us to catch up, but which fell through on Sunday when she let me know about the government’s announced change to services. If not, possibly take dinner away myself.

It’s nearly 4am now and my brain is failing me a little bit but it looks like my week has been increasingly targeted trips to stock up while possible from grocery stores that I have to admit I wouldn’t know how to navigate even if they had online stores or how to access remotely like through which app etc. - I'm almost certain my regular Asian grocer doesn’t do delivery or have an online store from which to buy - on information from the government that has been unsteady at best and impossible to plan for but with an impending sense of looming lockdown.

I don’t know if I will feel guilty again tomorrow, but I feel a lot better having laid that out to look at it, and on the premise of not knowing what will be open and if any of this will be accessible remotely at all, it feels, at least to me, like it counts as essential being that it entails my having to go there.

Or maybe I just really suck, or maybe a bit of both, idk.

#personal #log

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tangfoodemporium · 8 years

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This week we are traveling to Malaysia – the land of Laksa, Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai and a brilliant exotic range of spices, curry and laksa pastes, rice, noodles and sweet coconut balls.

Malaysian Nasi Lemak

Malaysian Laksa

Malaysian Sweet Coconut Rice Balls

Malaysia is an eclectic mix of many cultures and ethnicities. Its food, cooking traditions and ingredients reflect this magnificently. With the basic population mix being Malay, Chinese and Indian, it is an incredible base for the nation’s cuisine. Malaysian Cuisine has been described as a ‘melange of traditions’ with influences from Thai, Portugese, Dutch and British to name but a few that added colour and depth to an already exciting range of flavour.

Malaysia shares strong links with Singapore and it is not unusual to find very similar or the same dishes in both nations. The same can be said for Indonesia where dishes such as Satay, Rendang and Sambal are common in both nations.

Malaysian Rendang

Malaysian Sambal

Malaysian Roti

These influences extend from the Wok to the combinations of spices used in popular dishes. Ethnic Malay food is renowned as spicy, exotic. Chilli is a standard ingredient.

Lemongrass, coriander, Kaffir lime leaves, cumin, cardamon, star anise and fenugreek provide the basis for many Malaysian Curries and Laksas – and chilli!

As elsewhere in Asia, Rice is an essential ingredient and diet staple. Thai rice strains are grown, packaged and sold locally. This rice is the most popular but also Basmati varieties are used in Biryanis.

Malaysian Nasi Lemak

Malaysian Beef Rendang

The National dish of Malaysia is often acknowledged to be Nasi Lemak or ‘fatty rice’. This is a dish of steamed rice with coconut milk, served with hard boiled eggs, peanuts, dried shrimp, dried anchovies, cucumber and sambal. It is eaten all day – breakfast, lunch and dinner. Often it is served with a Rendang spicy beef (though not always beef) stew.

Malaysians enjoy a range of noodles and have adapted the Indian ‘roti’ bread as part of their diet as well. You will also find Idli, Puri and Dhosa – all commonly eaten at breakfast.

Malasian Dhosa aka Dosa

Malaysian Idli

Malaysian Puri

Where early Chinese settlers married Malay brides, this group came to be known as Peranakan. This cooking style is recognised as the ‘nonya’ style cooking. ‘Nonya is a term of respect for older women. The best known dishes from this tradition are the Laksa – Noodle soups.

Curry Laksa and Asam Laksa are both spicy noodle soups. Curry Laksa is a coconut curry soup and Asam Laksa is a sour fish soup with noodles.

Asam Laksa

Chicken Curry Laksa

Malaysian Desserts are brilliantly colourful using layered rice flour and coconut sweets, multilayered buttercake (Lapis Legit) and sweet coconut rice balls. Kueh Bahula is a popular dessert, a mini sponge cake dipped in black coffee.

Malaysian Kueh Bahula Dessert

Malaysian Lapis Legis Dessert aka Thousand Layer Cake

At Tang we carry a wide variety of Malaysian Ingredients including Laksa pastes, Sambal and rich curry pastes and preserved chillies, noodles and coconut products. Follow this link to view our Malaysian products or view our shop site map to inspect the range for yourself when you next visit. Don’t hesitate to check with our helpful staff if you are looking for that special ingredient.

What’s your favourite Malaysian Dish?

Here is a list of recipes courtesy of seriouseats.com, Take a look, it’s mouthwatering and we are sure you’ll find a favourite or two that keep you coming back for more.

Remember we are open 10am to 11pm every day at 151 Russell St. Here is the Google Map Reference

The List

Roti canai » Chicken curry » Roti jala » Asam laksa » Curry laksa » Satay » Nasi lemak » Popiah » Hainanese chicken rice » Mee goreng » Beef rendang » Nasi goreng » Char kuey teow » Ikan bakar » Oyster omelet » Won ton mee » Pasembur » Bak kut teh » Hokkien mee » Chili Crab and Black Pepper Crab » Fish head curry » Mee rebus » Sambal udang » Asam pedas » Fried chicken »

List source: Serious Eats

Malaysia – Truly Asia This week we are traveling to Malaysia – the land of Laksa, Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai and a brilliant exotic range of spices, curry and laksa pastes, rice, noodles and sweet coconut balls.

#asian food #Asian Supermarket Melbourne #Malaysian Cuisine #malaysian food

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asianpantryau · 2 years

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How do you choose the healthier version of mayonnaise?

What do mayonnaise and cilantro have in common, other than being food products? Asian pantry who are in the business of ‘connecting people through their passion of food’ say that mayonnaise is both popular with people who either love or dislike them. Researchers have discovered an inherited gene that causes people to be extremely sensitive to the taste and smell of cilantro. Although it doesn't appear to be a genetic factor that causes people to avoid mayonnaise, a lot of people like Barack Obama, vehemently do.

What is Mayonnaise?

Mayonnaise isn't a particularly healthy food, and, up until recently, people who disliked mayonnaise could count on virtue. There are plenty of people who cannot imagine BLTs without it and - U.S. mayonnaise consumption surpasses the sales of any other condiment such as ketchup, for example -- will be glad to know that mayonnaises that are currently on shelves in the supermarket are healthier than conventional ones. The majority of them are made from oils like safflower, soybean, sunflower and corn. They are deficient in healthy Omega 3 fatty acids and are high in Omega 6 fatty acids -excessive consumption of which could be dangerous.

What is the best way to taste Mayonnaise?

If you're choosing an alternative mayonnaise to taste, pick one made of organically grown oils, specifically avocado or olive (canola oil is a suitable alternative, but it has less beneficial health effects). If you are careful olive and avocado oils are good for your cholesterol, heart as well as your brain. They contain antioxidants that fight diseases. Pay attention to the labeling Certain products called "olive oil mayonnaise" include an amalgamation consisting of soybean oil or even canola. Organic eggs are the best choice because they're not exposed to the harmful chemical and hormonal substances that conventional eggs contain. Rosemary oil is a healthier and nutritious preservative over calcium disodium EDTA or potassium sodium sorbate and you should look for genuine flavors like salt or spices, herbs, and mustard as opposed to the known as "natural" flavors. Don't buy the"fat-free" marketing. Many of these products contain sugar to hide the less creamy flavor.

What is the best mayonnaise choice?

For the healthiest mayonnaise recipe, make your own. It is very simple to make: Mix four egg yolks (room temperature so that they will emulsify well) along with a significant amount of salt, pinch of black pepper, pinch of mustard, and squeeze of lemon juice. After the blender is spinning, gradually add 1 1/2 cup of olive oil from organic sources until the mix gets thicker. The amount you add can be adjusted according to your personal taste and preferred consistency. Make it your own by adding some of the ingredients listed below to boost the flavor including Wasabi, garlic fresh ginger, sriracha, chipotle peppers roasting red peppers, pesto sun-dried tomato paste honey mustard, horseradish or fresh herbs like parsley or chives, dill, and tarragon. The sandwiches you serve have never tasted more flavor before.

After summer is over, make some eggs, mix an okra salad, spread an omelet, or whip up a dip to serve artichokes with any of these healthier options. determine what side of that mayonnaise line your family and friends are on. Include cilantro in any of these recipes and you may find that your genes have an impact on the heated mayonnaise debate.

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Diploma of Hospitality Management Australia course that has already become mandatory recent days

If you are eager to build a career in the food and hospitality industry in Australia, then you need the right skills and certificates for smooth growth in your chosen field. The internet offers a fantastic choice to keep building those vital skills even if you are already working or studying since select experienced firms offer a host of courses to suit your timing and budget too you can learn more in Diploma of Hospitality Management Australia course.

Whether you want to start your own restaurant or catering business or are currently employed in the food industry and wish to garnish your resume with additional skills and nationally recognized certificates, then you should enrol in an online food safety supervisor course. Such a course would enable you to develop the necessary skills in ensuring that only fresh and safe food and food products are served at your establishment. You will receive nationally recognized certificates on Workplace Hygiene Procedures and Food Safety Procedures upon successful completion, and receive your certificate online, which you can print immediately.

Another vital Hospitality Training in Australia course that has already become mandatory recent days. for anyone serving alcohol in the ACT is the responsible service of alcohol training that needs to be approved by the ACT Office of Regulatory Services. This Hospitality Management course will anyway take up only three and a half hours of your time and successful completion will reward you with a nationally recognized statement of attainment that is valid for three years. This course is specific only to the ACT and a short refresher course after three years will allow you to continue rising in your chosen career.

A quick click will help you to enrol and complete this Hospitality Training in Australia course in virtually no time at all. One weekend or a late night is all that is needed to get certified, and you can easily make an online payment to get started. The responsible service of alcohol training course will help you to learn all about staff obligations, refusal of service, alcohol impact, and harm minimization techniques. You will be able to handle calm or agitated customers in the safest possible manner with these acquired skills.

Diploma of Hospitality Management Australia courses such as the food safety supervisor course and the course can provide nationally recognized attainment statements that can help you find a foothold in the food, beverages, and hospitality industry. Such skills will also help further your career and that too without even stepping out of your home. So, do not wait any longer, but instead guide your mouse to a trustworthy website offering varied courses to complete your chosen online course within a very short time.

Hosting courses have been carefully designed to assess the capabilities of companies in the market. Training is offered to develop customer service skills, introduce customers, and acquire knowledge. Take home lessons in Melbourne to learn the skills you need for this job. The training will be fun for budding home workers, such as gaining attitudes and love of customer service.

There are wide ranges of Diploma of Hospitality Management Melbourne course in Australia, such as the Diploma in Hospitality, Advanced Diploma in Hospitality, Bachelor of International Hotel Management, Certificate courses in Commercial cookery and Asian cookery. These courses are designed to equip you with the most practical set of skills which will you help you met the demands of the industry.

Diploma of Hospitality Management Australia managing larger restaurants to supermarkets, hospitality management stretches its wings

Students graduating from the Advanced Hospitality Training in Australia courses get the opportunity to work at a Managerial level in the top Hotels. With lucrative job offers and a chance to climb up the success ladder quickly, the programs are preferred by those who aim to make it big in the Hospitality industry. One can also opt to work in Cafes, restaurants, Hotels, pubs, coffee shops after graduating from these courses.

Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Australia is the best option nowadays. Hospitality management courses cover hospitality, hotels, finance, human resources, sales and guest management. The global value of the hospitality industry is approximately $3.5 trillion per year. From managing larger restaurants to supermarkets, hospitality management stretches its wings. If you want to study in Australia, Hospitality Management courses are your best choice. Skills Australia Institute is among the best colleges in Australia to complete a hospitality management course.

As technology advances, people pay more attention to their careers. More and more people aspire to become entrepreneurs; The market offers numerous opportunities that enable individuals to be successful in their business ventures. Hospitality is one of the options that has a lot of growth potential in these times when people want to spend their free time.

In recent years, the number of hotels, restaurants and cafes has increased as people have less time to spend with friends and family. Like any other career option, this one requires a lot of dedication, commitment and knowledge. If you are looking to open your own restaurant or hotel then taking a popular hospitality course is highly recommended and there is nothing quite like the Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Australia. According to industry experts, this course has added a new dimension to the hospitality industry by preparing future candidates for future challenges and responsibilities.

Choosing the Diploma of Hospitality Management Sydney Australia gives you the opportunity to learn the latest techniques in the current industry. In this course you will learn how to prepare delicious dishes for your customers to manage your restaurant accounts. In this course you will learn all aspects of hospitality. For this reason, more and more people are choosing this path to start a decent and growth-oriented career. Upon completion of the course there is a choice of positions available such as: Souse Chef and Head of Department

On the other hand, if you want to start your own business, there is no better way to complete this course with full commitment as this course will provide you with the most reliable and insightful knowledge on how to start your own hotel or restaurant. In today’s highly competitive business environment, having relevant knowledge is very important and this course provides just that.

The Advanced Hospitality Management Australia is a course that makes a significant contribution to the Australian economy. This is a program that is currently receiving significant investment from the government as well as international companies. This is a hub for entrepreneurs willing to serve people better. If you are in the service industry, Hospitality Management is the right choice to make your mark. If you are ready to hone your skills, there are many colleges in Adelaide where you can earn the required degree to study in Adelaide.

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Study Abroad in Australia: Tuition Fees and Living Costs

Among international students, Australia is one of the most sought-after locations. These students are drawn to this country by its beauty

The higher education system there is among the best in the world, and Australian cities are secure and great for foreign students.

There are thousands of scholarships available, and living standards are high.

After graduation, students can choose from a wide range of jobs.

Australia has drawn a record number of international students — over 650,000 in 2020 — despite having higher average living expenses than other nations.

The general information about tuition costs, average living costs, and available scholarships in Australia is provided below.

Australia's cost of attending universities

The cost of tuition varies depending on the academic field, degree level, and university you enroll in.

In-country students' tuition:

Between 20,000 and 45,000 AUD per year for bachelor's degrees.

Between 22,000 and 50,000 AUD per year for master's and doctoral degrees

Australia's most affordable universities

Check out the list of Australian colleges and universities with the lowest tuition costs:

The first year's tuition at Flinders University costs 10,350 AUD.

IPAG Business School's annual tuition is 13,000 AUD.

Tuition at the University of Wollongong begins at 18,800 AUD per year.

Tuition at the University of New England begins at 19,100 AUD per year.

Victoria University's annual tuition is $21,800 AUD.

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In Australia, the average cost of living for students

In order to pay for housing, food, and social activities, international students living in Australia require between 1,400 and 2,500 AUD per month. Remember that in order to obtain a student visa in Australia, you must demonstrate that you have the means to support yourself financially while you are there.

Check out the typical spending limit for some of Australia's most well-known student cities:

Sydney: monthly rates begin at 1,900 AUD.

Adelaide: monthly rates beginning at 1,300 AUD

Brisbane: monthly rates beginning at 1,400 AUD

Melbourne: monthly rates beginning at 1,500 AUD

Canberra: monthly rates beginning at 1,400 AUD

If you want to study in Australia, you can calculate how much money you'll need using a cost of living calculator.

Australia's cost of living

Few student residence halls are typically available at universities for on-campus housing. That is why a lot of international students opt to live with a local family or rent a private residence (homestay).

Average prices for common types of lodging:

Homestay costs between 450 and 1,200 AUD per month.

Monthly rent for student halls of residence ranges from 440 to 1,100 AUD.

Renting an apartment costs between 750 and 1,700 AUD per month.

Renting a shared apartment or house costs between 380 and 850 AUD per month.

Other expenses associated with lodging

Aside from rent, your accommodation necessitates additional costs such as:

Utilities: approximately $200 AUD/month

Internet costs between 70 and 120 AUD per month.

Food prices in Australia

Groceries are available in local supermarkets and typically cost between $500 and $1,000 AUD per month. You can save money by shopping at discount supermarkets such as Aldi, Coles, and Woolworths.

A typical meal in a low-cost restaurant costs 18 AUD, while a three-course meal for two costs 80 AUD. If you enjoy Asian, Greek, or Italian cuisine, there are several restaurants to choose from.

Australia's transportation costs

Some universities have a private transportation provider that assists students who live on campus or who need to travel to remote areas.

Depending on where you live, you may be eligible for additional discounts through state programs such as QLD (Queensland), SA (South Australia), or VIC (Victoria) (Melbourne).

A monthly public transportation pass for students costs between 30 and 70 AUD, depending on the city.

A bicycle can also be used to get around. One can be rented for around 40 AUD per day.

Additional expenses

Books and other study materials: 500-1,000 AUD per year

Rates for health insurance begins at 30 AUD per month.

Australia scholarships and student funding

International students who want to study in Australia can apply for a variety of scholarships and grants. The Australian Government, higher education institutions, and other public or private organizations are among the major providers.

Each scholarship provider determines the application criteria, but most financial aid opportunities are open to all international students. To view the full list of scholarships, go to the official website of Study in Australia.

These are a few illustrations of scholarships:

Australia Awards are government-funded fellowships and scholarships that pay all tuition fees, travel costs, and a portion of the cost of living each month.

Australia's APEC Women in Research Fellowship Program provides financial assistance to female researchers from APEC countries who intend to work with Australian universities on joint research projects.

Destination Australia Program (DAP) is a government-funded mobility initiative that promotes enrollment at academic institutions in regional Australia for both domestic and foreign students.

Check out the Studyportals Scholarship as well if you need assistance paying for your studies abroad.

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Basics of Indian Cuisine.

India is the world's second most populous country, but it is probably unmatched in terms of cultural diversity. The people, their languages, their lifestyles, and their cuisine differ drastically from one region to the next. Every region has a distinct cuisine and cooking style. There is so much to talk about when it comes to Indian cuisine, and so much that the world has yet to see.

What Is a “Masala”?

In Indian cuisine, a masala is a blend of herbs and spices. Masalas are used to enhance the flavour of a dish and can be basic or extremely complex, with some famous ones containing as many as 20 components. Some masalas are also thought to aid in water retention and immunity.

What Is “Curry”?

As a result of cultural appropriation, any meal having a vaguely South Asian background is now referred to as a curry. In reality, any food with sauce and gravy qualifies as an Indian curry. Curries can be hearty and flavorful, or light and airy comfort food. They're served with rotis (flatbread) or rice. Today, visit an Indian restaurant in Melbourne for some delicious curries.

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Chutneys are fruit or vegetable pastes formed from grated or overcooked ingredients. They are used as dips or accompaniments to fried foods and can be sweet, spicy, or sour. Chutney literally translates to "finger-licking."

A pickle is an aachar. Pickled vegetables are mixed with oil and spices to create this wonderful, tangy product that can be enjoyed at any time and with almost any meal. You can prepare them yourself or buy pre-made mixes in supermarkets. If you visit any Indian restaurant in Melbourne, you will almost certainly be served aachar as a side dish.

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While “Indian food” has made its way onto the world culinary scene, many aspects of Indian culture and cuisine remain unknown to the general public, and a number of prejudices about Indian culture and cuisine need to be debunked.

#1 Indian Food Is Vegetarian Only

This is about as far from the truth as you can go. Although many Indians are vegetarians, the country also has a big population of meat eaters. Because India is a Hindu-majority country and cows are regarded as sacred by Hindus, you are unlikely to find many Indian beef dishes, but there is a staggering number of chicken, fish, and lamb options.

#2 Indian Food Is Really Spicy

This is also untrue. The colour and richness of Indian food intimidate most people, and while they do utilise a variety of sauces and spices, not all of them are spicy. Spices have a variety of flavours, each of which contributes to the overall flavour. There is certainly a wide variety of milder Indian cuisine to pick from. You might also pair the hotter dishes with a palate cleanser, such as yoghurt or a cool drink.

#3 Indian Food Is All about Rice

India is far too large a country for its food to be generalised in this way; while rice is a staple in East and South India, wheat, maize, and other grains are grown extensively in the North and West, which is why rotis are favoured over rice.

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2021 Mid-Year Report

A lot of things can change in a year, but even more things can change in six months than you think. This is going to be a special post styled like my end-of-year reviews that focuses on the events of the past six months. I don’t know if I’ll be doing this again next year because I felt like making this post; in fact, I don’t know when I’ll stop posting my end-of-year reviews either.

Looking back at Sea Princesses

This time last year, I was in the midst of the second coronavirus lockdown in Melbourne, unemployed on double benefits without needing to look for work. At the same time, I was working on translating and reviewing the Princesas do Mar books, which I had brought from Amazon the month before. My original intention was to buy the books once I had saved up enough money from putting aside part of my paycheck, but looking back, I knew I made a better decision buying the books when I did.

At the same time, Fabio Yabu had also released the main series books as ebooks on Amazon Kindle and would begin releasing translated versions of the first four literacy series books on there as well. A year on, the last two literacy series books have still not been published as yet, though Ubook would publish them as audiobooks in Brazil (with the exception of Turtles in Danger for some reason). In our communications, Yabu had expressed interest in publishing translated versions of the main series books (based on my translations), but the last time we spoke in May, he stated that he had a lot going on, so that has been put on hold for the time being.

From time to time, I go on the wiki and make edits wherever I feel like. This isn’t something that I really needed to express, but I wanted to do so because I am planning on putting the translated episode names on their respective pages eventually. That information was originally posted on the International Entertainment Project Wiki before they planned to move the episode lists to Miraheze but never ended up doing so. Though the episode lists with the translated episode names have been taken down from the IEP Wiki, I have managed to save them and I will put them up on the Sea Princesses Wiki gradually and eventually. Keep in note that the only languages I have all the translated titles for are Brazilian Portuguese, Castilian Spanish and German; sources for other languages are always appreciated.

I’ve been thinking about this question time and time again over the years, but I’ve never brought myself to bring it up on Tumblr until now - Would I like to see a reboot, revival or continuation of Sea Princesses? My answer is both yes and no. I say yes because there is so much unexplored potential and unanswered questions in both the books and animated series with things like the Barracuda Kingdom saga, Marcello and Marcela, more interactions with other characters, more focus on other characters and so forth. However, I also say no because usual reboot criticism aside (character designs are shit, story is shit etc), I fear that the character designs of the Sea Princesses may not sit right with certain people and that they may be misconstrued as jailbait or something like that. While it would be nice to see something new in regards to Sea Princesses someday, that all depends on whether Fabio Yabu is interested in revisiting it like he did the Combo Rangers nearly a decade ago. And besides, if Yabu isn’t interested, then who needs him when I’ve made so much Sea Princesses content over the past few years, including my takes on the continuation of the series in Kisekae Insights? Which brings us to our next topic...

Kisekae Insights and my transition into adult life

In case you haven’t heard, I started at a new job at the end of May and it’s been quite full-on. Amidst all the distractions around me and my commitment to finish up my personal project by the end of this year, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to make two instalments of Kisekae Insights per month as I promised in #21, but as I made clear from the very start, there is no set schedule for the series, so this isn’t necessarily the end of the second run. I decided to just take the rest of my personal project at my own pace and I will possibly do likewise with Kisekae Insights.

Coronavirus and vaccines

At the start of June, Melbourne went into a week-long circuit breaker lockdown that later became two weeks long. This was our fourth lockdown after a short third lockdown in February that lasted five days. And it just so happened that I had to start working from home because of it. It’s not that bad, I’m currently doing a mix of WFH and onsite working so I don’t have to wake up at 6 AM (play on my phone and wake up at like 6:30) and take two hours of public transport just to get to work five days a week.

Numerous variants of the coronavirus have been discovered in the past year. We have variants originating in the UK (Alpha/B.1.1.7), South Africa (Beta/B.1.351), Brazil (Gamma/P.1) and India (Delta/B.1.617.2) among others. The Indian (Delta) variant in particular has been the reason for the recent lockdowns in Australia.

In regards to the naming of the coronavirus and its variants, it’s absolutely funny how their timing came about. When the original coronavirus started in Wuhan, China and was declared to the WHO on 31 December 2019, the WHO named the resulting disease COVID-19 on 11 February 2020, keeping in mind that Asian crybabies were crying about “China Virus”, “Wuhan Virus” or “Kung Flu” back then and are probably still crying about it now. At the start of June, the WHO announced that they would use Greek letters to refer to the variants when the media have used “UK variant”, “Indian variant” etc for months, which is longer than it took mainstream media and society to adopt the name COVID-19. Though their motivation to do this is to prevent stigmatisation like with the original coronavirus, I have heard nothing about British, South African, Brazilian or even Indian people being discriminated over the variants. It’s almost like people have more problems with “China Virus” than “UK variant”, “Indian variant” etc because they somehow have a need to please China and make people realise that all Asians aren’t the same. On top of that, obscuring the variants will eventually lead to people being confused over their origins when more of them inevitably emerge.

Recently, investigations into the origin of the coronavirus have been ongoing, much to China’s ongoing outrage and condemnation. When the coronavirus started, there was a theory that it somehow leaked from a lab in Wuhan; back then, people were laughed for believing it (because Trump was the one who was talking about it), but now, the mainstream media is going with that story while covering the investigations (because Biden’s the one who is talking about it now). It’s almost like a big “I told you so” from the people who knew better.

I’ve said this in my Red Pill Year post and I’ll say it again; all this fuss over naming the coronavirus and its variants to prevent stigmatisation is just an act of political correctness for China’s sake. While I have started to warm to the term COVID-19 (in a humourous and ironic sense), I still stand by my current positions so far; while I don’t entirely agree with “China virus”, I still refer to it as the “Wuhan coronavirus” because it started in Wuhan until proven otherwise beyond all reasonable doubt, whether it leaked from the lab or whatever. I’ll admit, I wouldn’t have much of a problem with this if the virus didn’t start in China. I’m a person who doesn’t really mind or care about political correctness if it’s just a little bit here and there, but given the events of the past decade, I draw the line when it comes to China.

Let’s talk about vaccines now. Vaccines have been a big topic over the past six months - in Hong Kong, Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine has become a meme in the pro-democracy population because to May, there were 24 deaths recorded as a result of side effects compared to the alternate BioNTech vaccine with 6 deaths. Granted, the deaths were in people aged 50 and over (possibly with underlying health conditions), but it has given people a reason to hold off or even refrain from getting the vaccine. On a side note, the “you’re going to Brazil” meme has never felt realer because CoronaVac is one of the vaccines being offered in Brazil along with Argentina, Colombia and Peru. My thoughts and prayers go to them at this point in time.

Now, I am by no means an anti-vaxxer, but I stand by the belief that coronavirus vaccines should be voluntary and not mandatory (I wish I could say the same for other vaccines, but I’d be perpetuating a double standard because adults are in control of our lives before we reach the age of majority). There are some countries and places that are providing incentives to people who get vaccinated, with quite a few of them being offered in the form of prize draws. In all honesty, given the nature of these vaccines, I don’t see the point of prize draws as incentives because there is no other benefit for those who don’t win except for protection against coronavirus, its associated symptoms, or even a release from our agonising and pitiful existences.

My main fear is that vaccine stigmatisation and discrimination might become mainstream with the existence of things like vaccine passports, where people who haven’t taken the vaccine are disallowed from accessing basic services. I can live with wearing masks indoors and on public transport and without leaving the country or even the state, but if the slippery slope gets to a point where people aren’t allowed to shop at supermarkets, eat at restaurants, take public transport or even hold a job without getting vaccinated, that’s the point where I start to become an anti-vaxxer.

There are some industries where getting vaccinated is not only highly recommended, but essential, such as health and aged care. I (luckily) don’t work in those industries so my opinion probably won’t matter, but if you work around vulnerable people regularly, then you as an individual should be responsible for taking the necessary precautions to prevent coronavirus infections and deaths.

So here’s my personal stance on this whole vaccination debacle; I will personally not be getting vaccinated for the foreseeable future, but I am not against people getting vaccinated if they so choose. This is not only because of the potential side effects or even my fear of needles (anyone who points this out to me is missing the point because my reasoning would be the same regardless of it), but because of the potential for the stigmatisation and discrimination of people who choose not to get vaccinated, the erosion of human rights for said people and most of all, the way that China has been involved in all of this; the vaccines were made to combat a virus that originated in China and I am particularly wary of some things coming from China, whether the vaccine is Chinese-made or otherwise.

Hong Kong pessimism

Things in Hong Kong have gotten worse over the past six months and they’re only about to get worser, but in spite of this, I believe that it will be all for the greater good.

Of significance, Apple Daily published their last issue on Thursday 24 June, taking down their website, social media and YouTube accounts on the same day. I used to make shitposts on a separate Facebook page by sharing their posts with satirical captions, sometimes with slurs (particularly the n-word on articles relating to mainland China) until some bitch I was having a feud with kept reporting my posts and got my page unpublished (he would have nearly taken my account with it if I hadn’t called him out and told him to kill himself, at which point we agreed to end the feud). Now that the Apple Daily Facebook page is gone, a lot of the shitposts on my personal page have gone as well; if I hadn’t deleted my separate page following the feud, chances are that I would be making plans to delete it by now because posts from that page made up a majority of my shitposts.

Since its founding in 1995, Apple Daily has been part of the mainstream media in Hong Kong, but due to its pro-democracy (and pro-Hong Kong) stance, it has been pushed to the fringe while other mainstream media outlets (like TVB) expressed pro-government/pro-police/pro-Beijing stances. While other pro-democracy news pages have popped up, there is a chance that the government may crack down on them following the enactment of the National Security Law one year ago; in short, Apple Daily was just in their way and the government will come for them eventually.

RTHK isn’t faring any better; while they are still running as a public radio and television service, they’ve been reined in by the government after their coverage of the 21 July 2019 attacks in Yuen Long. You know, the one where KKK members (in white clothes) lynched black(-clothed) people publicly in a train station and two police were seen walking away as emergency calls were being rejected? Earlier this year, some of RTHK’s programs were removed from their YouTube channel, claiming that their policy was to make content available for one year only, which is obviously not an excuse to fix their apparent pro-democracy bias.

Just last week on 25 June, there was a government reshuffling that led to a former police officer becoming chief secretary, the current police chief being the secretary for security and the deputy police commissioner becoming the chief commissioner. This just reaffirms my belief that all cops are bastards and that from 1 July, my bios on Facebook and Tumblr will be changing to highlight this and the plight of Hongkongers under these turbulent times. I’ve been wary of the Hong Kong police since their actions in the 2014 Occupy Central protests, but I officially became an ACABer sometime in 2020.

Here’s the thing. The government has outright ignored or rejected our requests for change over the years, so pro-democracy supporters are calling for a revolution, which the Chinese government somehow sees as advocating for independence, so the supporters have no hope of achieving their demands unless Hong Kong becomes independent from China, but the Chinese government is obviously not going to allow it, so they naturally turn to the international community for help. While sanctions did have an effect on the officials looming over Hongkongers, we are at an impasse right now because the next eventual step would be war, but no country wants to be responsible for firing the first shot, so the international community resorts to diplomacy while the Chinese government turns to condemning international interference in their internal affairs time and time again.

If, someday, the revolution were somehow successful and Hong Kong were to be liberated the way the protesters wanted, you know the first thing I would like to see? A fucking holocaust. I’d like to see a fucking holocaust of all the government officials who caused us suffering, the police officers who were “just following orders” and all the braindead boomers, Mainland Chinese n-words and other n-word lovers who have nothing but hatred for real Hongkongers. But hey, we all know that’s not going to happen because anyone who advocates for it is no worse than Hitler. Oh wait, that means I’m worse than Hitler because I said all that. Well, I guess that’s what I get for being pissed off at everything that’s happened and venting about it on the internet lol.

After Apple Daily’s shutdown, I have essentially doubled down on all of my beliefs. I have no sympathy for anyone who won’t stand with Hongkongers, and by that I mean anyone who actively stands against Hongkongers or turns traitor by questioning our motives and standing against them (I don’t really have an opinion on anyone who decides to stay silent because I don’t know what their true motivations would be). In short, anyone who doesn’t support Hongkongers is an n-word or n-word lover.

I’m really sorry for sounding toxic or harsh in anything I said about Hong Kong in the past couple of years. I only say these things because I really fucking love Hong Kong and I only hope that I won’t have to fear being confronted by the police or saying anything wrong the next time I visit Hong Kong with my family. Until things get really better, I’ve decided that Hong Kong is off-limits for me, but for now, let the government keep accelerating and laam chauing Hong Kong by themselves. It shows just how scared of us they are when they blame us for its eventual destruction, because in the end, it’s for the greater good.

UPDATE - 3 July 2021: I heard about the guy who stabbed a police officer then killed himself on 1 July. To be honest, I don’t feel sorry for the cop nor do I condemn what the guy did, particularly now that I’m fully into ACAB. People should be thinking about what motivated the guy to martyr himself in a lone wolf attack, namely the actions of the government over the past 24 years and the police over the last 7 years. Yet another reminder that all cops are bastards.

The US and Palestine

I have to say, Joe Biden has subverted my expectations when it came to Hong Kong and China. A lot of us feared that his administration would undo the hard work Trump’s administration did, but at the very least, they are still wary of the current situation and things have stayed pretty much the same.

As for Palestine, I would like to state that I stand with the oppressed peoples of the world and that goes for the Palestinians (and on a side note, Myanmar) as well. Jewish people have become a meme with their stereotypes and while I am not antisemitic, I apply the ACAB logic to them because it’s the system (or Jewish beliefs and Israeli governance) that is the problem here (haha AJAB lol). Ironically, it’s like Eric Cartman’s Mel Gibson fan club in real life.

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Anyway, I think I’ve said enough. Despite all the harsh things I’ve said, I only hope that the world will become a better place one day, but until then, I wish you peace in these turbulent times.

沿途在　修理著熄了的曙光祝你在亂流下平安

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10 Best Healthy Foods We Are Not Eating

When we buy at the market, online grocery store, or go to a restaurant our first concept is to get meals we like to consume and know. There are many foods out there that do not usually make it into the purchasing cart.

We eternally assume that we don't require that or don't have a chance to fix that, but the truth is it doesn't take any more time to make a well balanced and nutritious meal than proceeding to the drive-through and taking something unhealthy when you estimate the time it takes to get within a line of ten cars or ten people in the restaurant. Below you will see a list of ten foods you should be feeding and the causes why

Healthy Food #1 - Beets The leading item on the menu is beets. Yeah, I know. I'm not one for beets either, but if you choose fresh beet from the supermarket rather than the can you will be taking a better taste as well as healthy food. The beet is like red spinach it offers you a high source of folate and betaine. These are two nutrients that can assist you to lower your blood levels and decrease your risk of heart illness. Sounds pretty good right?

Healthy Food #2 - Cabbage Cabbage is another source of vast vitamins and you don't just have to throw it in a salad. You can put cabbage on burgers, eat it in coleslaw, or even Asian style cabbage in your next Chinese dinner dish. Cabbage is just 22 calories of food and carries so many vitamins, it is one of the causes those on an Asian or European diet are healthier. You will observe that cabbage includes sulforaphane, which helps raise your immunity and reduce the risk of breast cancer. There are numerous healthy foods that can truly help us fight infection, so you may require to start eating a few.

Healthy Food #3 - Guava Guava is not a very familiar fruit in some cultures, but it is one of the best fruits to feed. Guava holds lycopene, which is an antioxidant that fights prostate cancer. You will discover that tomatoes and watermelon have some of the lycopene, but it isn't as much as guava. Guava really has a sweeter flavor than other fruits. It is limited acidic so it normally goes down great. For those who can't manage oranges or pineapple, this is a great treat. You can consume the fruited plain, make a juice, or have a fruit bowl with bananas and other fruits that also contribute to you some excellent nutrients. Healthy Food #4 - Swiss Chard Swiss Chard is not a famous item by any means, but repeatedly it is very healthy for you. Swiss Chard is a leafy green vegetable, which is found in the Mediterranean. You will see that this particular plant contains lutein and zeaxanthin along with carotenoids that support your eyesight. The carotenoids help decrease the loss of aging to the retinas. This special plant is great with steak or chicken after it has been steamed.

Healthy Food #5 - Cinnamon Who doesn't love cinnamon? Surprisingly countless of us don't take enough cinnamon. You don't have to have cinnamon in a cinnamon roll, but you can certainly add it to multiple recipes. It is a vast way to support degrading your blood sugar and the chance of heart disease. You can just spray it on oatmeal or even in your beverage depending on what you prefer most.

Healthy Food #6 - Purslane Purslane is a vegetable found in Mexico, China, and Greece among other countries. It is a broad-leaved weed. You will discover this edible plant has more melatonin in it than other fruits and vegetables. This signifies that you will have an antioxidant in your body that naturally decreases the risk of cancer. Most frequently this purslane is found among salads.

Healthy Food #7 - Pomegranate Proceeding back to juices for a moment you will be pleased to discover that the pomegranate juice is one of the most extremely suggested juices to purchase. Everyone applied to drink orange juice, but now it is pomegranate juice. The pomegranate juice improves your body, by allowing more energy as well as assisting to decrease blood pressure. 4 ounces of pomegranate juices contribute 50 percent of your everyday vitamin C needs as well. Healthy Food #8 - Goji Berries Goji Berries is another great fruit to help you decrease the risk of disease; specifically, you will reduce the likelihood of having diabetes when you consume these berries. The Goji Berries are a medicinal food from Tibet. They have been around for more than 1700 years. You will discover that they have an antioxidant that supports reducing diabetes because it contributes a way to decrease insulin resistance. You can feed them as juice, plain, or with yogurt.

Healthy Food #9 - Plums Plums, mainly dried plums which are prunes are another healthful source of food. Prunes offer chlorogenic acid and antioxidants that are capable of decreasing the risk of cancer. You will see that prunes are also exceptional help in improving the body if you suffer from constipation. You can have the prunes by themselves or spray them over prosciutto and back for a few minutes. Healthy Food #10 - Pumpkin Seeds The last item on the list is the pumpkin seeds. While we just consider pumpkin seeds during Halloween in most instances you will discover that they are a fabulous source of natural minerals our bodies demand. They contain magnesium as well as antioxidants. Pumpkin seeds can assist decrease the risk of cancer in that they contribute more oxygen to your cells and there is less damage. They can normally be located near the peanuts or almonds in a store.

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Hope this article helps to understand how much beneficial foods we don't eat. So take a pledge today when we go to the online grocery store for buying we can add in our food menu list and start to eat slowly. So go online and search the Natures Cart. Natures Cat is the leading e-commerce grocery store in Melbourne Australia to serve organic fruit and vegetables, plant based meat, online bakery goods, fresh fruit and veg delivery at your doorstep in Melbourne. Shop Now!

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Fucked-up World // Australians Urged to 'Show Kindness' Amid Reports of COVID-19 Racial Discrimination Complaints

— By Jason Fang, Erwin Renaldi and Samuel Yang | Thursday April 3, 2020 | ABC.NET.AU

Racist graffiti was scrawled at a construction site in Melbourne this week. It was later painted over.

The Australian Human Rights Commission says about one in four people who lodged racial discrimination complaints in the past two months say they were targeted due to COVID-19.

Key Points:

The Asian-Australian community faces "a compounded level of stress" caused by racism

The Australian Human Rights Commission encourages the public to "show kindness and support" to one another

Scott Morrison praised the Chinese community's contribution in the fight against COVID-19

According to the latest data, seen by the ABC, in February the Commission also recorded the highest monthly number of racial discrimination complaints this financial year.

A third of February's complaints were explicitly related to COVID-19, as were just under a quarter of complaints in March.

The commission asked that raw numbers not be published due to strict confidentiality requirements around the reporting of complaints, but said they usually received dozens of formal complaints every month.

'I could feel it was malicious'

As the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, many in the Asian-Australian community have reported instances of racial abuse linked to COVID-19

Last month, Chinese international student Christine Zheng was verbally abused when wearing a mask while waiting at a tram stop in Kew, in Melbourne's inner east.

She told the ABC she was yelled at by a stranger, who shouted "coronavirus" at her.

"I was the only person wearing the mask … I could feel it was malicious," she said

"I was very angry, but I didn't know how to respond. I could only share my experience on social media."

Indonesian migrant Rani Pramesti told the ABC she was the target of racist slurs while walking her dog on Wednesday.

Ms Pramesti said she heard a man on his bike muttering something like "walking your dog", and when she looked at him, he yelled: "What are you looking at, you f***ing dumb gook?"

She told the ABC that it was the first time in seven years that she ever experienced this behaviour in her own neighbourhood.

"COVID-19-related racism is real and makes it very unsafe for people of Asian appearance to live day by day," she said.

"Please be aware of when you're associating COVID-19 especially with people of Asian appearance. Again, the virus doesn't discriminate, but people do."

There have also been media reports of racial assaults across the country in the wake of the pandemic, including two women being spat on in Sydney, and a Hong Kong student being punched in the face in Hobart for wearing a mask.

Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan told the ABC COVID-19-related discrimination against people of Asian backgrounds must be condemned.

National Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan said Asian-Australians should not have to endure racial slurs on top of the other stresses caused by the pandemic.

"Coronavirus has nothing to do with race or nationality — and neither fear of the virus, nor frustration at the difficulties we all face, are excuses for discrimination," he said.

"People of all backgrounds are dealing with this crisis. No group can be singled out, and we must all work collectively to defeat it."

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference on Thursday afternoon praised the Chinese community's contribution in the fight against COVID-19.

"The Chinese-Australian community did an amazing job in those early days of the spread of the coronavirus," he said.

"They have been an early example to the rest of the country as the broader implications are now being experienced and the measures that have been taken.

Georgina Hu says she doesn't understand why travellers from the US continue to be allowed entry into Australia.

“They showed all Australians back then how to do this. I want to thank them very, very much for the example they set in those early phases.

"Containing and limiting the spread of the virus that had come from China on those early days was incredibly important."

'Compounded level of stress' faced by Asian-Australians

Michael Thai, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Queensland, said anti-Asian racism during the pandemic was taking a toll on the wellbeing and functioning of people in the Asian-Australian community.

They are experiencing a compounded level of stress, from both the stress that everyone else is feeling with regard to the coronavirus, as well as the additional stress of being racially victimised, being accused of being carriers of the coronavirus and bringing this virus to our shores," he said.

"To deal with these stresses is a very difficult thing to do."

A headshot of a man with black hair and glasses smiling with purple jacaranda trees in the background.

Michael Thai said racism was having an impact on the psychological wellbeing of Asian-Australians.

Dr Thai said Asian-Australians should avoid internalising the stigma or discrimination they feel and that building a social network could reduce the psychological impact caused by racial discrimination.

"There are a lot more people out there who are understanding and compassionate," he said.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of, there's nothing to feel bad about personally."

Leaders need to set an example

Remarks around the coronavirus by politicians have also heightened racial biases towards the Asian-Australian community, Dr Thai pointed out.

President Donald Trump speaks during press briefing with the coronavirus task force standing behind him.

United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly called the coronavirus "the Chinese virus".

In Australia, senator Pauline Hanson said "any attempts to attack or criticise people for referring to COVID-19 as a 'Chinese virus' should be pushed back on" and that "it has been common to refer to viruses with reference to the area it originated".

The World Health Organisation (WHO), however, said in naming the disease COVID-19, they strove "to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people".

"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatising," WHO said.

Dr. Thai said community leaders could change "social norms around what's acceptable or what's not".

Liberal MP Gladys Liu has condemned coronavirus-related racism.

"If more leaders were to speak up, then we may see fewer attacks."

Liberal MP Gladys Liu said in a statement that she was "deeply disappointed by examples of racism within the community" but had also been "overwhelmed by stories of the community coming together and supporting each other through these tough times".

She said she encouraged people who witnessed racism to report it to the authorities, and stressed that "racism occurs on the fringes and that racist views held by some are not the views held by the majority of our society".

How to Lodge a Racial Discrimination Complaint

Iris Zhao overheard a woman saying that Asians should "stay home" and "stop spreading the virus".

Coronavirus has sparked racist attacks on Asians in Australia — including me

The commission said the public had little knowledge of how to make a complaint. So, what should people do when facing racial discrimination or attacks in public?

The commission said on its website everyone in Australia could make a complaint with zero cost. Information is available in 23 languages, including Chinese, Indonesian and Hindi. People can call on 1300 656 419, email [email protected], go online or even post it to the commission, however only written complaints are accepted.

I was standing in a supermarket aisle and moving my shopping trolley to make room for a middle-aged woman to pass when I overheard it: "Asians … stay home …stop spreading the virus."

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