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samantha

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She/her. Kills internet dragons, maker of Fine Foods.

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skinnylatte, to random
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I find the vast majority of yogurt products in American grocery stores to be totally inedible, except the stuff made by immigrants and sold at immigrant markets (desi yogurt, or Lebanese or Turkish labneh). Way too much sugar, or hype, sometimes both. My stomach also does better with the dairy from immigrant markets.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte there's a small manufacturer in NYC called White Moustache that makes the best yogurt I've ever had. The texture and consistency is exquisite. For the next time you're in New York.

skinnylatte, to random
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I had to wait 15 min so the Canada geese would walk away so I could retrieve my bike.

Oh geese

samantha,
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@skinnylatte the Canadians joke that they're so polite to make up for the geese, and they might be right.

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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New passport. New possibilities!

Also nothing tells me I’m ‘home’ like a Chinese auntie calling me ‘AH GIRL’, at the embassy. Auntie, I’m almost forty years old liao leh

Majulah!

#TootSea #Singapore

samantha,
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@geraineon @skinnylatte family gatherings are when someone says "ah girl" and 8 different heads turn

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I couldn't find a bakery in Vancouver that makes milk bread exactly the way I like it -- so I bought a bread cookbook in Japanese, Google Translated my way through it, tweaked the recipe to work with the ingredients I could get here, and started baking bread every other week. Today's beautiful batch.

skinnylatte, to random
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I’m angry that I don’t get the same quality of restaurants and food trucks. I’m angry I don’t live in LA (yes cars.. but the food is exceptional)

samantha,
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@skinnylatte we lived in SF 2009-2010 and 2016-2019. Even in those six years, the city got very noticeably more and more -- artificial? I guess? It didn't feel like a real place. It felt like there were some real people but the vast majority of SF proper became geared towards a specific slice of person. It all beiged out.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte Oakland was way better in terms of feeling like a real place, we just couldn't find a decent sized apartment there that we could afford and would take cats. And public transportation felt harder in East Bay than SF proper, which already wasn't a high bar.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte when we first moved to LA (we lived in LA 2014-2015 and 2019-2022) I didn't expect to like it very much. The irony is that despite LA's reputation for being "plastic," that's actually a very small segment of the city, and there's a ton of the city that's great and real and interesting.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte transportation is not good in LA, but it's still my favorite city in North America. Having lived basically my entire adult life in the US but still missing Singapore and SEA food every day, LA's growing food scene really hit home for me. It has recent immigrants cooking food that's not for Americanized audiences. It has those 2nd- and 3rd-gen immigrants cooking real fusion in the best way and I love that.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte and I find that most people in LA are just less insular. They spend time around and with people with different backgrounds. There's of course a stratospheric layer of wealth that doesn't (and this is true in every city or geography around the world), but normal people's social circles are diverse in a way that's not contrived.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte NYC's sheer volume of food and different stuff everywhere is impressive and you can find real gems there. But the percentage of amazing vs. overall is higher in LA (for me and my palate) than in NY.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte the best thing about SF food-wise to me was the produce. But you can get produce JUST as good in LA. The Hollywood farmers market is a revelation, as is the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte and the Japanese food scene in SF was just super disappointing. Really ridiculously expensive and the vast majority of the time mediocre in addition to being expensive. How and why, I just don't understand lol.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte I did have a super spendy kaiseki meal in LA that I considered worth every cent at Hayato Sushi. It rivaled upscale Japanese omakase I've had in Singapore and Japan. Would do again -- just have to save up for it.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte it looks stunning and delicious -- I added it to gmaps for the next time I visit LA lol.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte I do think that living in LA is very hard if you don't drive. Getting out to Alhambra for dim sum, going down to Westminster for a+ pho and banh mi, going to farmers markets, etc., all basically impossible without a car. LA's public transit is still very behind.

skinnylatte, to food
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LA food diary.

Some of you know I’m a big fan of LA food. I think that dollar for dollar you get a tremendous amount of cuisines, varieties of foods, in this melting pot which feels to me like it has far more immigrant and working class food than the Bay Area. Even the density and quality of ‘fancy food’ is high!

I’m keeping a record of my LA 2024 discoveries.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte I find Annex is also too vinegary for my tastes.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte there's no balance, lol -- original Tsujita is still my tsukemen jam

skinnylatte, to transit
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LA folks, what’s a good place to wait for 2 hours or so, so that I can easily get to a train or bus at Union Station around 11pm on a Sat night? Like a place with food preferably. Where I can sit with my bags. Play a game on my Switch while waiting. No alcohol, tho I am fine with places with alcohol.

#Transit

samantha,
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@skinnylatte if you feel like a late dinner, Bestia and Bavel are both nearish in the Arts District, and both open late even on weekdays.

Bestia has great pasta (their bone marrow agnolotti is amazing) and Bavel does amazing things with a wood grill and Middle Eastern flavors. Bavel used to be my go-to spot to bring out of town friends who wanted something semi-fancy. The things they do with vegetables, mmmm.

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@geraineon https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/112345201304254051

skinnylatte, to food
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Nothing tells me you don’t know how to cook tofu like making a video called ‘how to make tofu taste good’

samantha,
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@skinnylatte "food videos made for the White gaze" is a whole genre.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte I just don't understand tofu flavor masking tbh, I find tofu SO delicious

skinnylatte, to food
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As a rice eater, great rice dishes are totally what excite me. I want a ‘seasoned rice’ popup that just does 2-3 global ‘seasoned rice’ from around the world.

Jollof and nasi liwet.
Biryani and jambalaya.
Pilau and arroz rojo.

samantha,
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@skinnylatte Rick Martinez’s recipe for Arroz a la Mexicana is the best I’ve had. I don’t know if it’s how he toasts the rice or the chicken fat and large quantity of carrots in the recipe, but the depth of flavor is incredible. https://www.foodnetwork.com/fnk/recipes/arroz-a-la-mexicana-7288406.amp

samantha,
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@skinnylatte also, takikomi gohan is one of my weekday dinner staples because it's delicious and so good for using up miscellaneous veggies before they go off.

skinnylatte, (edited ) to food
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I have procured all the volumes of this cookbook and I am going to cook my way through it.

Some of it is quite dated (I never even ate some of the proteins or style of cooking by the time I was conscious in the 90s) but the author had the rare experience of being able to distill many regional Chinese cooking methods and styles into three books, and they were also translated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pei_Mei%27s_Chinese_Cook_Book

samantha,
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@skinnylatte I have her cookbooks as well, and was excited to see that there's a new biography of Fu Pei Mei that was just published: https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/products/pre-order-chop-fry-watch-learn-fu-pei-mei-and-the-making-of-modern-chinese-food-michelle-t-king

samantha,
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@skinnylatte also Omnivore Books in SF is having an event with the author: https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/products/michelle-t-king-author-talk-chop-fry-watch-learn-fu-pei-mei-and-the-making-of-modern-chinese-food

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