Hunan cuisine Puns

Chestnut and Pak Choi Stir-fry (Ban Li Shao Cai Xin, 板栗烧菜心)

https://helloteacup.com/2017/11/09/hunan-cuisine-dishes/<-- #7

Does anyone happen to know if this genuinely is a common Hunan dish and possibly have a more formal recipe I could follow? It also looks to me like those are tree chestnuts rather than water chestnuts?

I'm currently doing a bit of a cooking challenge and am keen to try out new things whilst maintaining the authenticity as much as possible! I'm vegetarian, which does hinder that slightly. :P I've found some other great recipes, but this caught my eye as I've never really seen a pak choi and tree chestnut stir fry before and I love chestnuts!

Thanks!

Il y a quelques annees, il n'y avait quasiment rien a part Vietnamien et "Chinois". Ca change?

http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201612015021-1.aspx

Planning on being in Lexington tomorrow, wondering what everyone's favorite Chinese place is?

We are Brother C and Sister L on a mission to eat a dish from every cuisine in the world, that’s available in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Currently we have eaten at 0 of 78 restaurants on our cuisine checklist! To learn more about our backstory see our first post here.

How we will use the cuisine checklist: There are question marks in Sister L’s entrée column because she will make her decision the day of. After we eat at a restaurant, we will post a restaurant review including each of our ratings, pictures of each dish, and a fact we found interesting about the cuisine or culture. Every time we write a review or make any change to the cuisine checklist we will update the date/version number at the bottom.

Hello everyone, I was hoping we could start a thread to help small business in fort Collins. I myself am a server at 2 restaurants here in town. I feel like both my restaurants could develop more regulars if people just knew we exist, where we're located, and what makes us stand out. Also not just restaurants if any other small business employees would like to give a shout out please do so! Alright with that being said I'll start by shouting out Hunan Chinese Cuisine and Cocktails. We're located right next to Red Robin between Papa John's and Honey Baked Ham on Harmony. Hands down most amazing people I have worked for and incredibly nice and enthusiastic staff. Great lunch specials during the day if you're looking for a place to eat on your break. Also a great place for date night we set up tablecloths break out a bigger menu with fun appetizers, bigger portions, and great cocktails and our food is honestly the best Chinese food in fort Collins and have the reviews to prove it. The quality is exceptional and I am blessed to be able to serve there and get 50% off (I eat there almost every day) 😂 I would also like to shout-out Oreganos Italian Restaurant. We're located in the Target parking lot on College. I'm fairly new to this restaurant but have nothing's but good things to say about this place. The environment is awesome it's set up like a 1950s Italian restaurant and even has a (mobster) booth in one of the section and memorabilia that will catch your eye all over the restaurant. The staff here have been nothing but welcoming. It makes me happy seeing the way team members treat guests and each other, truly great service. Our food is great as well super tasty thin and pan pizzas, really good salads, sandwiches, and they put there own spin on some traditional Italian dishes that are delicious. 😋 If you're interested in a place for date night or a place to eat out with the family Oreganos is definitely worth a visit. Anyways if you've read this far thank you! I'd love for more people to shout-out there own restaurants or local business. I will try my best to shop there as opposed to big corporations let's support each other Fort Collins! ✊

Guide

Part 0 - The Preamble

Hello again. Today we're doing a song that, despite the title being written in the official lyrics and pronounced in the song, I don't know how to pronounce. If you read the title, you'd know it's RTRT. If you read the song guide, you could have known it was RTRT as long as 17 days ago.

Anyway, is it pronounced just "retort" as it is in the song, is it pronounced as 4 letters, R-T-R-T, or is it pronounced all as some weird, vowel-less word. Maybe we'll find out here and now.

Part 1 - Analysis of Lyrics

This song sort of just tells its story, so I'm more of an interpreter than an analyzer this time.

>Hop, hop
>
>You came along my secret laboratory
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>Spiky, spiky bloody fangs
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>Hungry for my Qi

So, our main character is a scientist with a secret lab. And some creature came hopping into the laboratory, hungry for Qi. If you didn't know, Qi is both a sort of way to refer to somebodies life force, as well as a British gameshow that started in 2003.

Anyway, from the description of it being a hopping creature that's hungry for life force, it's quite likely we're dealing with a Jiang-Shi, also known as the hopping zombie or hopping vampire. It also happens to be one of my favorite mythological monsters, but that's besides the point.

>Hold up, mister
>
>Right there, mister
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>Sit down, mister
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>How about some retort pouch of curry
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>Pouch of chili
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>Pouch of MRE
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>But you're rather picky

So, for those who don't know what a retort pouch is, Google tells me it's a sort of packaging for food. Makes sense, so I'll trust Google... this time.

Anyway, this scientist wants to make food for our Jiang-Shi friend, but they seem set on the Qi-eating thing they've got going on. I wonder if there's any way to get it to eat something else?

>Well, I'll make you something else
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>No need to show me how
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>Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself

What the hell does being a mad scientist have to do with cooking? Honestly, I'd think being a mad scientist would make you WORSE at cooking, since you're spending all your time on science and evil machines. I'd think the only food-related thing a mad scientist would be good at is ordering out faster.

>Canto or Sic

##Youtube video

##Lyrics

#Introduction:

RTRT, the second of the Miracle Milk trinity, which are songs with over 10M views on Youtube.
It’s quite fitting considering the genre too, as while Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery looks at western mythos and classical style, RTRT contains eastern (Chinese specifically) folklore and an electronic Chinese style.
As such, being Chinese (albeit white-washed), the contents of the song along with the occasional Mandarin made it really great for me.

And just like Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery, it has both a great song artwork along with a very straightforward story, so let’s hear about the story of QC the jiangshi and the Dr. Suzu the mad scientist.

#Composition:

The instruments of the song are the classic piano, strings & percussions, but what sets this apart (as stated earlier) is that the instrumentals are heavily modified electronically, giving it a very distinct sound.

While the melody is somewhat simple, generally staccatos in wave motions, compared to Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery’s complexity, the electronic modification gives RTRT a significant boost.

Another thing that also gives the piece a lot of style is that the composition sounds very similar to melodies in classic Chinese pieces, which contributes greatly to the content of the lyrics regarding Chinese mythos, Chinese cuisine and Mandarin lyrics.

#Lyrics:

As the story is straightforward and concrete, I will give this the same treatment as Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery, where I assume you’ve already read the lyrics or have a general understanding of the story.
Instead, I will dive deeper into the Chinese folklore and cuisine within the song.

Firstly, a Jiangshi is essentially a Chinese zombie/vampire, who seeks out the ‘Qi’ or life force of living people.
They hop around as their method of transportation, due to how stiff they are, for ‘jiang’ means stiff in Chinese.
The sealing talisman is attached to their forehead (or in this case, hat), and their clothes are similar to that of officials from the Qing dynasty.
Their green skin is also theorized to be a product of fungus and mold, which grows on their body.

However, our mad scientist, Dr. Suzu, counters the jiangshi, QC, by offering him curry, chili or MRE.
MRE stands for Meal Ready-to-Eat, which is basically modern army rati

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

And boy are my arms legs.

Nothing, he was gladiator.