If you're friends with someone, wouldn't you want to know if they're also friends with someone problematic?
Pat12
disingenuous
disingenuous could definitely be it; they're not straightforward about their intentions.
Opportunist is definitely closer to what i'm thinking than sycophant.
They keep their connections hidden; it is the other groups who when asked state that they are friendly with this person.
i’d be very surprised if there were not methods waiting to be discovered for prepping bean paste, fish sauce, doubanjiang etc in more health-conscious ways.
i think the problem is all of these pastes are fermented and i at least don't know how to ferment something without using a lot of salt. even make your own doubanjiang paste will tell you to use a lot of salt to ferment the beans
I think some kind of food is just not designed to be healthy. It was made to be tasty without thinking about health. You can either make it more healthy and less tasty or you can eat it less often (as a treat).
yep, that's true. our typical dishes are actually not much meat and have a lot of vegetables like water spinach dishes
hmm this may be an option, thank you! can't find low sodium for other pastes
i think a recipe from 100 years ago will just tell me to ferment my own beans for the paste!
It's like a fever dream now..
Yep it's true sadly. Many hk locals have emigrated and many mainlanders have come in and work HK jobs now. I'm considering it a form of cultural genocide for the govt to make it so in hospitable to live in HK anymore
I am not referring to soy sauce, I don't know about gochujang but I have not seen low sodium versions of doubanjiang anywhere, maybe I can't look around
This is one of the sauces I mean: https://www.malafood.com/en/essential-guide-to-doubanjiangs
you do you but I would definitely want to know if my friends were close with people who'd been in prison. If I worked in a field where they do background checks i would absolutely need to know if my friends were friends with those in prison. There's a difference between dictating who people are friends with and knowing who people you give information to are close with.