Shaobingliji/烧饼里脊, basically one of the many styles of (breakfast) sandwiches in China. Shaobingliji apparently appeared first in Bengbu/蚌埠 in Anhui/安徽 province, and then spread to other regions. This particular version I made is the Tianjin/天津 version. Liji/里脊 means tenderloins but actually implies *pork* tenderloins in common vernacular, however because Tianjin is home to a sizeable population of Hui people (Hui people are Muslims and cannot eat pork), the pork tenderloins are replaced by chicken breast in the Tianjin version to make it Halal. The name remained the same, however.
The Tianjin version of shaobingliji has marinated, dyed (with a natural food dye called red yeast rice/红曲米), and sautéed chicken breasts, fried egg, and fried tianmian sauce/甜面酱, all sandwiched or stuffed into a shaobing/烧饼 flatbread. If anyone ever visits Tianjin, there are many streetside breakfast vendors selling the Tianjin version of shaobingliji, in my experience almost as many as the number of vendors selling the Tianjin specialty breakfast wrap jianbingguozi/煎饼果子.
The video below is the recipe I followed. There are no Eng subs btw, but since the recipe is fairly easy (for people living outside of China the only hard part is getting some of the ingredients), if anyone wants to know, comment and I will post a translation.
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Hi again..... I'm glad you're feeling better now than before...... I'm doing so-so (sorry for the weird answer)......
Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime, books, movies or tv series)? Thanks....
Thank you! My past few months have been hopeful. I hope each day will be better and better for you!
I don’t have a top 10, but I can do top 7/8, arranged in no particular order. I know I’ll sound like a broken record talking about them, but they’re all danmei characters because that’s the kind of fiction I enjoy nowadays. Some English titles are my translations and may differ from what fan translators call them, if fan translations of the books exist.
🚮🌶 Chi Xiaochi from “Don’t Pick Up Boyfriends from the Trash Bin” and Wei Wuxian from MDZS
Chi Xiaochi is an actor who carries out missions across various universes in exchange for a wish that will allow him to regain his life after a freak accident. Wei Wuxian, as most know, is a donkey-riding resurrected necromancer who solves mysteries.
They’re my favourite type of protagonist. Right from the start, they wow readers with jaw-dropping statements that infuriate other characters. I love their charisma, their humour, and the way they don’t always toe the line. They have the classic protagonist hallmarks: kind hearts, impressive intelligence/skills, and complex pasts that gradually unfurl as we read, but those things aren’t special on their own; it’s the authors’ prowess that makes them shine through creativity and the weaving of human problems through fantastical events.
An aside: Chi Xiaochi had/has a dog and is terrified of ghosts, while Wei Wuxian had/has ghosts and is terrified of dogs. These traits are important in their respective stories.
🐾 Bai Chunian from “Merman’s Fall” 《人鱼陷落》
Bai Chunian is a white lion alpha not-so-secret agent who works for the IOA, the International Omega Alliance. (If only there were a similarly influential International Women’s Alliance in our world.)
I like contrasts, and Bai Chunian has plenty. He’s rough yet gentle, immensely strong yet vulnerable, a leader and strategist who needs a guiding light in his life. He’s a bad-boy kind of tease, but he always ends up being the one who gets teased when he tries it on Lan Bo, his partner. (Lan Bo doesn’t even mean to tease. He’s just giving Bai Chunian replies from the heart; those replies just happen to be bawdy to the max.)
There’s something about the way Bai Chunian acts when he’s sad that triggers the urge to protect. You just want to give him all the nice things in the world.
🏋️♂️ Shen Qiuji from “Today I Am Forcefully Resurrected Again” 《今天我又被迫复活》
The love interest of a constantly haunted protagonist. By the standards of common danmei love interests/tops, he’s on the “useless” end of the spectrum, and by that I mean his protective capabilities are low because his ghost-busting skills are mediocre. Contrast him with, say, Hua Cheng from TGCF or Luo Binghe from SVSSS. Despite that, Shen Qiuji gives off a very strong sense of safety and reliability by dint of being a masculine fitness buff who chooses to be persistently there for the protagonist, Gu Rong. His presence is like an anchor.
Shen Qiuji may look stony-faced and somewhat intimidating, but he’s very affectionate with Gu Rong; he likes to cuddle and touch and—in the past, before he and Gu Rong went from being enemies to lovers—annoy. It’s captivating. I think having someone who makes their existence tangibly felt and who wants to share your burden is a wonderful thing.
Plus, like many characters in the book, Shen Qiuji is hilarious.
✨ Xiao Xingchen from MDZS
Blind smiley daozhang (Daoist priest, used very loosely in this instance).
Who wouldn’t want a friend like him? He strikes that sweet spot between poised and approachable. A kind person with an amiable attitude and an undercurrent of courage to do what other people don’t dare or care to do. Also, it’s super cute that he laughs easily and uncontrollably (I suppose this trait would have been more obvious when he had eyes). He sounds like a huge pleasure to be around.
Oh, and he has the prettiest name I’ve ever seen: “dawn stardust”, sounding like “little stars”. Additionally, it sounds like “the dawn star sinks”, echoing a line from an old poem and, in hindsight, foreshadowing his fate. I like wordplays!
Giving a supporting character like this a tragic ending makes him even more attractive to (sadistic) readers because it makes us mourn how good and beautiful things don’t last, sometimes.
🐀 Shen Jiu/Shen Qingqiu from SVSSS
Misunderstood villain in the book title. High-ranking scholarly lord in the No. 1 martial arts sect. Fierce battered batterer.
Another tragedy king, in a totally different flavour. I love contrasts in characters, so I love how hardened Shen Jiu is, how deliberately rough and tough he acted as he grew up, and yet he has this soft spot, this vulnerability pertaining to one person who (accidentally) helps shape his demise.
Speaking of his relationship with Yue Qi, there’s beauty in what-could-have-beens, in feelings burned and blackened before they could properly begin. There’s beauty in things only half said—no I’m not talking about Yue Qi’s tight-lipped idiocy, I’m talking about something that’s almost love but not completely there yet because no one’s said it out loud; only metaphors whisper it. I like metaphors and implications.
🌸🏡 Shi Mei and Hua Binan from 2ha (indirect but major spoilers below)
Guy who wants to go home. At almost any cost. (Lol, sounds like me when I was a kid.)
Yet another tragedy king, and this time it’s one who’s physically very lovely. (At this point, I can safely summarise my favourite supporting characters as “beautiful tragedies”.) I’m semi-blending Shi Mei and Hua Binan from both timelines into one person in my speech because I like both versions of the man whom child Hua Binan grew up to be. Same seed, same tree, just moulded to grow in slowly diverging directions.
I like characters who are stuck between a rock and a hard place; it doesn’t matter whether they’re protagonists or antagonists. And ethical dilemmas aside, I admire the way Hua Binan dreams big (and crazy), puts it into action, and succeeds. My reactions were both “wth, they actually did…that” and “what a relief, they made it”.
I like male characters who come across as tastefully demure and exquisite, their unfortunate rarity making them all the more precious. The demure part may have been acting in this case, but elegance is indisputably required to make it work. What’s more, this guy can pull off both styles: beautiful and handsome. He’d be a delight to look at. (Sidetracking: speaking of “delight to look at”, I dig Mo Ran’s strapping farmhand look too.)
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The books above are listed in my danmei book recommendations: https://tentative-wanderer.tumblr.com/post/624449567085248512/danmei-book-recommendations
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2023年6月13日(火)
私の通勤ルート、京都市下京区の自宅を車で出て、名神高速道路京都南ICから下り線、茨木ICを過ぎて次の吹田ICで下りて職場へ、通常は50分程度で到着する。ところが、今朝は茨木ICを過ぎてすぐに<吹田IC渋滞1km>との表示。この程度は問題なかろうと思いきや、事故発生直後らしく渋滞は酷くなるばかり、結局普段より60分遅れで職場に到着した。100円余計に支払ってまでも吹田ICで下りるのは流れがスムーズであること、それがこんな渋滞に巻き込まれては元も子もない。明日からは、100円節約ルートで茨木ICで下りることにしよう。たかが100円されど100円ということであろうか、とほほ・・・。
5時起床。
朝食、洗濯、弁当*3。
可燃ゴミ、30L*1&45L*1。
O姉からメッセージ、事情があって電車で向かうと。
ツレアイは7時20分に自転車で出勤、午前中に2箇所を訪問する。
私は1人で出勤、事故渋滞のために約1時間遅延する。
換気・体操・お茶。
昨日の<情報機器の操作Ⅰ>の課題、提出物を印刷してチェック、いかんなぁ・・・。
O姉が電車で到着、少しお茶を飲んで2限の<ジェンダー・ダイバーシティ論>の講義へ向かう。
すぐにドアにノックの音、夜勤明けの妙齢女子がたずねてきてくれた。前回は事前にLineで連絡があったが、今回はアポなし突撃訪問、驚いたが元気な顔を見せてくれるのは何より嬉しい。2限を終えたO姉が戻るのを待ってあれやこれや、女子2名の会話に取り残された私は弁当もそこそこに、早々に3限の教室へと向かう。
火曜日3限・4限は<スタディスキルズ(看護学科)>、10週目の今回からはグループワークに取り組んでいただく。先週までの<論文型レポート>作成のスキルを活かしてのグループワーク、SDG'sの<ジェンダー平等を実現しよう>をテーマに設定し、そこから身近なトピックを絞り出して、発表用のデータを蓄積/共用するトレーニングだ。予想以上に活発なディスカッションが展開され、担当者としては嬉しい驚き。次週の作業が楽しみだ。
終了後、お茶を入れて一息ついてからの退出。
いつも通り、O姉を九条大宮で降ろし、私が帰宅したのが17時30分頃。
すでにツレアイも帰宅、夕飯準備を始めてくれていた。
野菜も蛋白質もあまり気味、手抜き料理でご容赦をお願いする次第である。
片付け、入浴、体重/血圧測定。体重は変化無し(あかんがな!)、血圧は安定傾向が嬉しい。
なんとか3つのリング完成、水分は1,540ml。
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