Queer Southeast Asian product manager living in California working on #civictech. Lukewarm takes on tech, food, bicycles, music, photography and lots and lots of pet photos. Learning to play jazz piano and saxophone. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #BikeTooter
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Last Notes npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Interesting job at the University of Sydney: First Nations Collections Curator https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Camperdown-Campus/First-Nations-Collections-Curator---Identified_0120564-1 #Indigenous #GetFediHired #Jobs #Australia #Sydney #Libraries npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I think I hypnotized her https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/941/409/906/386/605/original/2afcf0a950434d7c.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Many moons ago, I spent several weeks in Reno, Nevada. I was surprised to learn that they had an incredible little Chinese restaurant. Everything on their 'specials' list was as good as something I would get back home Of course, I went there all the time https://maps.app.goo.gl/zELKU1M9iko3h6r78 #Reno #Nevada #Food #ChineseFood npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Every day I regret that I’ve never done anything with my two major life skills: I’m really good at giving shiatsu massages, and I can learn any non-string musical instrument quickly npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Mila’s ’your lap looks lonely, let’s fix it’ face #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/933/711/728/395/855/original/b0973b9cecf18edf.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @npub1sfl…gczt ah ok, I thought ‘bandoola’ might be Burmese. Looks delicious! npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I write an infrequent food newsletter. I’d like to write more frequently. https://buttondown.email/skinnylatte Based on what you’ve seen me post about #Food here, what would you like a full length post about? npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan One day the world will also discover my slides and negatives in thrift stores, but I can’t promise they’ll be as thoroughly documented (found at east bay depot for creative reuse, in Oakland) #BelieveInfilm #Oakland https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/928/589/772/005/508/original/2aeb514837eb5ab5.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Happy 6th wedding anniversary to @npub178g…qzk5 and me! #LGBTQ https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/924/545/929/392/736/original/eba053443bf363c3.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan If you don’t want to stand in line for Daeho, there’s a new Galbi Jjim spot in Russian Hill that’s pretty good too. Mashita Ggalbi Jjim, near the Teaspoon Boba. A bit cheaper too. Two other notable Korean spots, in a city not known for great Korean food, Yasijang in the Tenderloin is a very good pocha, and also Sikdang Woori in the Fillmore. In the Richmond, I like Muguboka. #Food #SanFrancisco #koreanfood #BAE #BayAreaEats npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Cuddles #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/919/281/200/714/730/original/99ef399fc0f36e64.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan installing windows xp on a device, like it's 2001 (i bought a 24 year old film scanner) #believeinfilm npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Two extremely easy vegetarian / vegan ways to improve your congee or soup noodle base: - soak a bunch of good dried shiitake mushrooms in warm water for 4 hours, keep the mushrooms and put them in anything; use the mushroom water for making congee or soup - if you drink tea, especially oolong, pu’erh and green tea, see what happens when you put a few leaves in the soup All pretty standard ways of making soups in Chinese cooking #Cooking npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Cuddles #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/890/994/132/025/768/original/736e82e00907876b.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sometimes I meet foreign or non Bay Area tech folks who are quite anti-homeless, and who think homeless people chose to be that way. I don’t bother to engage them on ethics or philosophy or even empathy anymore. I just say, the apartments in this area (and everywhere) are around US$3000-5000. You can only rent if you make 3x that monthly. Can *you* afford that right now? And very quickly they shut up about it. They just haven’t thought about it before. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I was in multiple chats with friends in San Francisco today about vinyl records, speakers and amps, film photography and bicycles all at the same time so I feel like I’ve really reached my personal peak San Francisco npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan One of the things about grieving a dog is it hits you in such surprising ways. Like when I drop food while cooking and realize, I no longer have a four-legged vacuum cleaner. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Glen Park, San Francisco #SanFrancisco #Parks #Outside #Nature #Trees https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/878/027/276/052/846/original/adb9cab38b84ad6d.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan BIKECAMPING #BikeTooter #California #Sausalito https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/860/528/856/950/349/original/0d89703fb1610173.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Yesterday I had food at an Irish bar, and I was telling my wife ‘you know when I go to Germany or something I get really tired of bread and potatoes after two weeks’, and then the Irish waitress showed up and said, ‘you know when I was in Thailand for a whole month last month, I couldn’t wait to get back to bread and potatoes’ Ahahahah #Food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan As someone who has more experience with dogs, I was surprised to learn that my cat couldn’t just lick the treat off her own nose. But she quickly made her point #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/851/243/951/996/588/original/4cf14b89a0ed3195.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m about to do something terrifying: learn to develop E-6. Wish me luck (and that I have many bottles) #BelieveInFilm npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I have found an Irish bar with nonalcoholic Guinness. I don’t need anything else in life #sober npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Pretty impressive that my local library always has a copy of books I want, in English and in Mandarin. Except for some very niche southeast Asian history academic books, the type I might have to get from an academic source anyway, they’ve had just about everything. Even like, random photography chemical handbooks from Kodak from way back, and of course graphic novels too. Very happy about this. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Can’t wait to be 120. #AAPI https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/842/471/879/704/566/original/1852071bee7f9904.webp npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I feel like conservatives don’t understand that calling someone ‘childless cat lady’ and ‘jezebel’ are actually positive things npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My alien facehugger is round and furry #CafsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/832/388/064/698/261/original/2607597156337128.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan This video cracks me up. When I was away from Cookie, she would frown like this (at anyone who was dog sitting her). Turns out I also frown when I was away from her. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/827/659/053/233/540/original/6540dd8e206c1555.mp4 npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m a convert to Bob’s Mill potato flakes: good quality instant mashed potato! Add to your baking to make potato bread (denser and chewy yeast breads!) use with grated cheese instead of panko to fry or roast things! #Food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Mila is usually a ‘elegant and poised’ cat, except when there’s raw chicken on the counter and she thinks it’s for her. She’s so old (17? 18?) she probably has cataracts now #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/821/362/907/685/732/original/278e65d9bc8fcc9f.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I saw an interview with a 97 year old woman in the bay area who is being studied for her ‘super ageing’, she was like ‘I love people, I love walking, I love life, I have absolutely no regrets’ Why tf are literal murderers and plunderers held up as a model of success, instead of little old ladies with no regrets npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Harassing my cat #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/817/979/405/423/938/original/ebd03db4330a2d2a.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The thing that annoys me about a lot of fiscal conservatives is, they’re not really that good with money npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan 1. Crack 2 eggs into a cup 2. Beat it furiously 3. Add 2-2.5x water in volume 4. Add as much soy sauce, dashi powder or mushroom powder as you want, stir 5. Strain into a bowl. You may place fishballs or chicken slices or mushrooms into the mixture, too. 6. Cover. Place on a trivet in instant pot, fill IP with water until just below trivet 7. Steam 5 min on low pressure, then wait 10 min when done, before opening lid npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Yesterday I met someone who expressed a dislike for Oakland and I immediately put him in the ‘probably won’t want to hang out with him’ bucket To me, that’s one of the loudest dog whistles (for pro-cop, fashy views) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I feel like the people urging Americans to run away and move elsewhere grossly underestimate how hard international migration is; and also vastly overestimate the efficiency, openness and not fuckedup-ness of their own countries npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Blep #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/730/835/668/945/584/original/832d0b14f4149970.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Walking my friend’s dog! #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/706/945/056/318/789/original/b9a799f039ce034a.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Some birds I saw on Alcatraz this weekend. BABY WESTERN GULLS #Birding #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #Photography #Alcatraz #California #SanFrancisco #BayArea #Outside https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/680/407/666/676/164/original/8dad8e6af4832310.jpg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Just picked up a bag of chips I’d never seen and.. what a story https://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-potato-chips-are-only-in-jail-2016-9 #Food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I got so, so so lucky to have gotten her as my first dog. First pet of any kind really. I’ve been describing her as ‘she was always up for an adventure, and for a nap’. They say you get dogs that are most like you. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My ex and I laughed about this when Cookie passed this morning, but nobody knows her name on her birth certificate was: ‘Lacavara Mal. Ch. Dream Doll’ Her show name for the show career that she never started npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Reading about steroid use among gym bros and growing increasingly disturbed (diy steroids made some guy’s sweat turn yellow) https://archive.ph/2024.06.17-212704/https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-on-steroids-now npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan There is a new cheung fan restaurant opening in SF Chinatown that does ‘stone milled’ cheung fan (rice rolls) and I cannot wait for it to open #Food #SanFrancisco #BAE #BayAreaEats npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My wife wanted sweet potato roti. So I made sweet potato roti. #Food https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/636/137/044/408/021/original/598f8ef57aaf70e3.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan There’s a very famous vegan YouTuber I refuse to click on because she once made a video about how she could not make tempeh taste good, and now I have an irrational distrust of all of her recipes and of her. I mean, half a billion people in Southeast Asia, mainly not vegan, eat tempeh willingly and happily npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan What’s the first food you had outside your comfort zone, that made you go ‘I can eat this forever!’ And you do? Mine is samgye-tang (Korean ginseng chicken soup). Even 30 years after I first had it on a trip to Seoul, it’s still something I crave and want all the time. #Food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When I was a teenager in Singapore, I went to a bougie school and for a brief period of time, the kids (as in 12 year olds around 1998) were obsessed with going to a place to get potato rösti after school. Things we rarely had: potato! Sour cream! Yesterday, I had a very sudden desire for rösti. It was so easy to make I feel annoyed I ever paid anyone money to make it for me. I still struggle with potato as a main carb; but I appreciate it now. https://www.recipetineats.com/potato-rosti/ #Food #Recipes npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Everything is just cults or databases, sometimes both. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Still thinking about the time a Gen Z kid tried to sell me a ‘vintage rock’ vinyl and It was Blink 182 #Music #Vinyls npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan People think I’m a really good baker but I simply bake everything from here. Even this simple pound cake recipe is exceptional. (I do tend to cut the sugar by at least 20%, except when it’s essential) https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/king-arthurs-original-pound-cake-recipe #Food #Baking npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sometimes I think about how weird it was to have grown up in a city state that doesn’t grow its own food and that doesn’t have seasons. ‘Eat seasonally’ was an intellectual, not lived concept: we could get anything, from anywhere, anytime, from both north and south hemispheres. Our butter came from Australia, NZ, Japan, France, Italy; even chicken came in from another country. And yet, a lot of lived experiences with spices, cooking cultures. Maybe only HK is like that. #TootSea #Singapore npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I used to have to go to Sunnyvale (20 miles away) to get this brand of frozen parotta. It’s from Kottayam, Kerala. I have a preference for South Indian foods, including convenience foods, so I used to have to go to Sunnyvale for everything. I can now get it on Weee! https://www.sayweee.com/en/product/Daily-Delight-Malabar-Porotta--Layered-Wheat-Bread--5-pcs/103767?referral_id=4972487&lang=en&utm_source=copyLink #Food https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/627/886/698/475/469/original/264a48a384337ec1.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I really don’t like the style of videos that is ‘American person sitting in their car in a parking lot talking about random stuff’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My current color film development costs: - 1L Bellini C-41 kit ($43.99, does 16 rolls so $2.74 per roll) - 2 hours rental of Fuji Frontier @ $20/h, in which I can scan 16 rolls of film, so $2.50 per roll All in, 5 bucks and a bit per roll of color film. It’s $20 at a lab to dev and scan where I live. Dev and scan for 16 rolls is $320, doesn’t do the color correction I like, AND I have to wait 3 days! My scanning cost will come down soon (with a CoolScan I am inheriting) #BelieveInFilm npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Today someone told me that his elderly aunt lost 200 vintage film cameras in her collection to the redwoods fires, and I haven’t recovered from the sadness #BelieveInFilm npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Shit’s getting real (I am baking a lot) #Food https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/623/574/143/909/685/original/02a6b1b050b595de.jpeg https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/623/574/159/036/049/original/528626171d6453c5.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan After six years here I’ve learned that most of the worst things that have happened to me as an immigrant have been done to me (mostly) by other immigrants. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sometimes I just want to squeeze her #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/623/285/956/989/378/original/d18242932475adcc.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan A kite about to be flown at a San Francisco event to celebrate Indigenous cultures (6/15/24) #Photography #Kites #SanFrancisco #Indigenous https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/622/741/222/664/809/original/babca5a0a84f4a5c.jpg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I have a friend whose dad used to work for a state broadcaster, and he has the idea that he would give ALL of his film photography and video gear to his daughter’s friend, as in me. I am excited and terrified at the same time #BelieveInFilm npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The vet not only pulled Cookie back from the brink of mortality, she also seemed to have given Cookie some additional youthfulness. Cookie now has the energy of a puppy, wants to go on walks all the time, do everything, see and eat everything, everywhere. I’m a little tired keeping up with her. 15 years old in October!! #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/618/853/656/785/150/original/b55398c9c7572e49.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Two of my favorite things (being a gay bus rider) #BelieveInFilm #LGBTQ #Transit #Muni #SanFrancisco #Pride https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/618/463/254/046/824/original/f5d5f9ce49fd2c01.jpg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Also selling an ice cream maker with a built-in compressor. No more freezing bowls in your freezer, so you can make room for more ice cream. It's a great deal! Help me make more space in my kitchen! https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/app/d/san-francisco-whynter-icm-201sb-upright/7757101585.html #SanFrancisco #BayArea #IceCream #Food #Cooking npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I have speakers and headphones up for sale: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ele/d/san-francisco-kanto-syd-speakers/7757099507.html I could ship, potentially! npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I'm going to have my trusty Plustek 8200i up for sale soon. It'll come with the power adapter, and a carry bag. Let me know if you are interested! #BelieveInFilm npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Cookie and I have a new routine: Cookie drops! We walk around dropping off freshly baked cookies for our unhoused neighbors! npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My friend was like ‘hey can you check the price of this medicine for me in the U.S. maybe you can buy it for me when you visit me’ To humor her, I did just that She could not stop saying WTF WTF WTF (I told her to buy me a flight that lays over in Bangkok or Mumbai, and a few nights 5 star hotels in those places, where I can pick up a year’s supply of generics for less than this over the counter, cheaply) Ahahahaha https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/613/158/398/722/243/original/02ea57725a07a3e9.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve been reading Pei-Mei’s Cookbooks. She was widely perceived to be the Julia Child of Chinese cooking in America. She did so much in her career. She learned vast numbers of regional Chinese cuisines, and wrote how to prepare banquets as well as home style food. I’m thinking of making cooking videos as I work through her books. My nickname as a child was ‘Mei Mei’. So, Pei Mei Mei (accompany me) Pei Mei (in cooking Pei Mei). Ahahahaha #Food #Cooking npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Daily walk with Cookie #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/612/459/872/387/195/original/3ca519483de76299.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Walked by a guy who was complaining about ‘the influx of immigrants taking up all the jobs’ Yeah anyone who walked the Darien gap and survived and then found housing in San Francisco, give them all the jobs they can do anything npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When you’re sleepy but still want to go on walkies #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/606/754/917/255/068/original/52ffb9743d4ad015.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I hope season 2 of #Fallout addresses the true crux of the series: how difficult it is to find screws to build things in the apocalyptic wasteland npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Mila, the tiny lioness who rules my home #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/606/183/301/112/446/original/6aecff5afe2dcbe1.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My darkroom just got a RA-4 paper cutter. I am too excited about this. (It has an excellent color printing setup, it’s been my hobby for the past year) #BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #SanFrancisco https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/605/811/963/918/011/original/ed36896dbf6618d7.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Scanning a lot of film (16 rolls??) #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FujiFrontier https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/605/774/381/886/228/original/c5ed2f20c1290474.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Things I just talked about with my Taiwanese tutor (in Taiwanese): digital nomads, spicy food, regional Indonesian and Indian food and flavors, being gay, long distance relationships, Chinese language / dialect politics, noodles, the light flavors of Toishanese food Because of language imperialism, I have no problem talking about most of those things in Mandarin but need to hire a tutor to help me do that in Taiwanese #Languages #Taiwanese npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Made breadcrumbs from bread I felt I ‘failed at’. It became a very good tonkatsu #Food https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/601/098/952/728/499/original/1dfc8f946ce89d29.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Phone cam photo from 10 years ago: a Taoist procession in Ghim Moh, Singapore #iPhonePhoto #Photography #Singapore #TootSea #Religion #Taoism https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/600/789/303/874/872/original/13a5c8ec51fdca21.jpg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I really don’t like the Instagram / TikTok #Food trend of food influencers just going to places with food that’s gigantic or massive or just eye poppingly weird in some way. It makes for good content but I really don’t want to ever eat a burrito that’s larger than a baby or a forearm or a puppy (or all of them at once). Also, so much food waste ;/ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Freestyle is doing preorders for the Ago film processing machine. I don’t know anything about it. What do #BelieveInFilm friends think? https://www.freestylephoto.com/796001-AGO-Film-Processor-with-Two-Reel-Paterson-Tank-PREORDER-NOW! npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I have to put her away at bakeries because she tries to eat all the crumbs. Croissant flakes are her fave #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/489/240/839/784/371/original/eb1b3314662b5ab1.jpeg https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/489/240/844/883/699/original/7a264564371eccbb.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Immigrant problems: when you come from countries that gave you TB Vaccines, so every time you are required to take a TB test in New Country you show up as positive, even if you clearly don’t have TB npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan New blog entry: The One About Scallion Pancakes It's not really about food. It's about the time the Trader Joe's scallion pancakes made me cry and have an identity crisis, but not for the reasons you think. It was really hard to write. https://popagandhi.com/posts/the-one-about-scallion-pancakes/ #SanFrancisco #Racism #AAPI #Food #ChineseFood #Blog npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Any time someone asks me why I post about food so much, it’s just food, I’m going to tell them that we only know about the past from the food in fossils and that’s in vessels we excavated and in things we found at Pompeii. Or, better yet I won’t tell them anything at all and I’ll just keep eating and posting about food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan More soy toots: when you buy soy sauce look at the ingredient list and label. If it has ‘hydrolyzed soy protein’, it’ll be roughly the same quality as ‘cheap Chinese restaurant takeout soy sauce packets’. If it just says ‘soy beans’, and the label says ‘naturally brewed’ or ‘naturally fermented’ or ‘first draw soy sauce’ it will be pretty good. #Food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I feel like I'd go back in time happily in Malaysia / Malaya to try to eat all the foods, now lost or changed, in the 50s. I am not sure I would want to eat this other than as a joke. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/making-and-eating-the-1950s-most-nauseating-jell-o-soaked-recipes?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m really passionate about tacos. I feel like I don’t taco bout it enough. I’m going to LA soon, which is also when I have tacos six times a day. I love how different every taco tastes. Every single kind of them. (Watch The Taco Chronicles on Netflix) When immigration stuff is sorted out for me, I’m going to go to Mexico on the regular to eat tacos. #Food #Taco #California npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan A short list of my SF food recs https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/112344367119009780 #Food #SanFrancisco #California #BayArea #BayAreaEats #BAE npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan If you understand this billboard you should evaluate your life (this includes me) https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/340/079/441/547/782/original/99be7b7018580ce9.jpeg npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The guys (and it’s always guys) who post online cheering layoffs talking about ‘bloat’ and ‘slack’ and ‘efficiency’: never think that perhaps *they* are the bloat npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Maybe a whole half bottle of habanero hot sauce in a serving of fried rice was too much, but I need it to feel something #Food npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Just a few days ago. She was so happy to run as always. We are still waiting to to hear from the vet on her current status. But it brings me joy to know she was happy and healthy until the end. https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/295/625/040/845/745/original/b62103984b9a3b37.mp4 npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My wife is training to be a therapist, and I’m a food person who is training in dad jokes, so I said ‘sorry for trauma dumpling on you’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @npub1wwc…88qz sorry for trauma dumpling npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Like why do men keep telling me they love dumplings? Everybody loves dumplings, go tell someone else And that’s when I realized that being read as a young Asian woman in the U.S. has some weird gender and race dynamics with some types of men (not that harassment doesn’t happen elsehwere, it just takes on a very distinct form. Certainly not ‘I love dumplings!’ form npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When I first moved here to San Francisco I witnessed a very strange interaction at REI. An older man, maybe around 55, was following a mid 20s Chinese American woman around the store. She was really uncomfortable. He kept saying things to her like ‘my ex wife was Chinese!’ And ‘I speak Chinese!’ (She was like but I don’t) And she just couldn’t shake him. He was like I love dumplings, I love your people Somehow, witnessing that happening to someone else made my other interactions make sense npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Nothing tells me I’ve learned to cook at a level that pleases me, as when I was finally able to do consistently simple dishes really well. One of my comfort foods is spaghetti aglio e olio, and when I finally made one that felt like something I would pay for, that made me happy. Like when I finally managed to cook all kinds of rice well #Food #Cooking npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Shogun: prestige TV discussing the influence of Portuguese colonialism on Japan Prestige TV I really want: how Portuguese nuns spread pastries across Asia https://johorkaki.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-does-thai-cuisine-have-so-many.html npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Me 6 years ago: I’m not a cat person Me today: I have 20 000 photos of my cat #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/264/583/193/845/852/original/4785ea0bc2b58c78.jpeg