#except the indian food

[mumblesplash]

damn people were really not kidding about british food being Like That huh

#mumbling #where. is the flavor. where is the taste #i’m not going to particularly nice food places i understand that #and nothing’s been like. *bad* or anything #but seriously everything i’ve eaten so far besides candy has tasted like NOTHING what IS this #except the indian food #i need to find another indian place before my tongue starts to atrophy from spice deprivation #i’ve been here three days and i’m already losing it a little bit #hasn’t been bad. have had fun even. but the overall vibe this country’s got going on is a particular type of awful #everything here just feels Less. like someone turned down the dial for reality

[trickstarbrave]

i need people to understand something being flavorful does not equate to it being spicy. you can spicy food that is otherwise very bland. you cannot use chili peppers to cover up a lack of balance or depth in a dish. a fuck ton of chili peppers will not disguise the fact you didn't use enough salt.

#ppl are still yelling at me about japanese food being bland 'compared to other east asian cuisines' #im sorry but no. wrong #the flavor profile is extremely similar to many korean and chinese dishes #you all just think everyone except japan is spicy food only #which is a really weird thing to believe #like seriously. eat chinese steamed fish. japchae. #for fucks sake even japan has spicy ramen get real #what i will say is indian food is way more flavorful lol but thats NOT EAST ASIAN #south asian food is another level. still trying to figure out the intricacies and nuances #it takes time. but #you guys cant even tell what is good spicy chinese food or not

[naomiknight-17]

In the good news department, tomorrow I can go to the mall and get my copy of Pikmin 4

Can't wait omgggggg

#i am gonna rescue everyone so hard #mod post #pikmin 4 #also i was very good about not getting takeout for two weeks #the only exception was getting indian food with my friends who were visiting from the states #which is like. kind of a special occasion #but otherwise i have been very thrifty and tomorrow i'll have enough to buy the game weeeeeeee #and maybe i will get some thai express for dinner as a special treat too

[boysbeloving]

I totally understand not feeling human and not being able to think properly without 8 hours of sleep because I am the same but I just can't imagine the man who is a model/actor/CEO of boc music s family business and just loves to have late night sessions with his guitar and consistently posts 3 am ig reels somehow also gets 8 hours of sleep a day. WHEN DO YOU HAVE THE TIME MILE??!??

NONNIIIIEEEEEE 😭😭😭😭

the man being busy is an understatement lol

i honestly don't think he's getting his eight hours.....not daily for sure

but he's managing to keep himself fit and available for the commitments that he's required to be at so that's a great thing

honestly, back in my 20s i also did A LOT on a daily basis along with travelling long distances...i was young and had slightly more energy than now and was passionate about the things i did

and i think it does come down to that a bit....your own passion and joy that you derive out of things....that helps drive oneself to do more of it i think...along with MANY other factors ofc but yeah, this is one big factor too

and i'm VERY VERY happy that mile has given himself this opportunity to pursue his love for music in a professional way.....he's a music lover and a business lover so why not combine both the loves right?

i hope he gets time and energy to look after the family business as well

nonnie we can wish mile success in all his endeavours and wish for him to be healthy and happy!

#mile phakphum #mile phakphum romsaithong #being tired is VERY natural but it hurts me so much when i can SEE that he's sleepy af and taking flights here and there #i used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning..get ready..make breakfast..pack lunch and be out of the house by 7 and then travel for an hour #or more to reach office....i did it DAILY for SO long #so yes....people have tough and busy lives....mile is no exception #but my god i just want to wrap him up and bring him home and feed him indian food and let him SLEEP peacefully for an ENTIRE night #AND let him nap next day too #istg i won't even touch him (AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT) if it means i'll be taking time away from his rest time #he's doing well despite being busy bless him #thanks for the ask nonnie! <33

[peaceeandcoolestvibes]

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#kinda disappointing to try food from dif cultures and countries and drawing the conclusion that their spicy sauces are NOT spicy #Turkish and Greek? not spicy #Indian? not spicy #Chinese? hell naw #japanese? NOT spicy except like wasabi maybe and it was eh-okay #North African good in general? NOT spicy #girl I’ve grown eating this shit and these sauces that are supposedly spicy just aren’t spicy enough #SMHHH:( #like bro what is your definition of spicy bc we don’t have the same definition #some of these taste sweet even so idk #oh food from Latin america wasn’t spicy either but it’s just dif flavors and super colorful dishes #so aesthetically pleasing #imma try Ethiopian food next #we’re neighbors so the food better be spicy lmao #I just don’t get it #Mexican? NOT spicy 🌶️

[eurofox]

I'd take any British slop food over any Indian food.

#except naan bread that stuff's alright #but i don't even like the smell of indian food #which is why i don't mind being the person who picks a restaurant to ensure i never have to have indian food

[opisasodomite]

English lady at work brought in stuff for afternoon tea w/ scones clotted cream and sausage rolls and idk, I think I can be convinced about English food…

#caveat I haven’t been to the UK but with my limited exposure to the cuisine. it strikes me as like. comfort food and very hearty #and it’s biggest sin seems to be it can be bland at times #i suspect there are worse European cuisines #what are the Dutch doing I feel like the Dutch would make shit food #also all this said while earl grey is S tier and hearty black teas can be nice I strongly prefer Chinese and Indian teas to British #(also matcha but honestly I don’t like any other Japanese teas I’ve had except sort of Genmaicha)

[lovely-v]

his shirt looks like it was designed in a “shirt that says x” tumblr text post. we should all take fashion advice from him.

#veesaysthings #buffy watch #btvs #xander harris #i'm genuinely wearing the same type of shirt right now except mine says the name of an indian food restaurant instead of i <3 dirt #same colors and everything tho

[ironmanstan]

Me and my baby sister like this 🤞 w our moronic eating habits fr

#hate textures wont eat anything except the same 3 foods never feels hungry until we start eating. only exception to anything is indian food #YOU WOULD THINK an 8 year old would be so picky about shit but no she jus like me we r on the curry muncher grindset fr #her asking me to boil her chick peas bc she will eat them bc texture good vs me looking at this like my god u are so pathetic #i will make chole and rice at 10 am my sanity is small price to pay #the gamer speaks uwu #food

[junebugzzz]

I made myself a meal today and it consisted of. White sauce spaghetti with toast and cheese & jalapeño sausages and peanut butter coffee. Maybe life isn't so bad

#i dont know how to cook indian food yet but non indian food is somehow less stressful because i am not pressured to get everything right #because hell im brown i cany cook white food except apparently i can and ultimately i do am i making sense #idk what this post is. good day today :) is i guess what im trying to say #reached out to therapist for another session too :))((

[no-passaran]

Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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[needlxd]

Kit has so many friends and loved ones that are either heroes or hero-adjacent and could very much be a way for her to kick off a redemption arc of sorts. Alas, Zach and the Casino family always come first

#kit vc: sometimes crime is fun anyway. and sometimes people deserve a bit of death for the things they do :) #the exception is the spiderverse au #kit is not immune to pav and aunt maya and now venom likes indian food so they're doing hero stuff now #J6Y5TL4KEWFMDSVLMHLKWEMFS

[an-annyeoing-writer]

What can u make out of puffed rice that doesn't require food import

#my parents are gone and i'm sick so cant do shopping #so i have nothing good to eat but i have puffed rice #i went online to look for recipes with puffed rice but #all that came out was some indian recipes #which would be very very cool because this stuff looks tasty af but #literally all the stuff in the recipes except for puffed rice is stuff that dOESNT EVEN HAVE A WORD IN MY LANGUAGE #makes me want to go to india when i get better #or more like #in five years or so #yeah that'd be good #i wanna try food #oh no but #i dont like spicy stuff much #i imagine it'll be tough then #what are non spicy indian dishes i could try if i get a chance? #it all started with puffed rice #maybe i'll go to that store real quick and get some instant chicken soup #vg: personal

[ityabuoy]

srry im the biggest north indian food hater where is the imli where is the spice if the food doesn’t make me feel like i need to chug a 2L glass of cold water after whats the point.

#south indian and sri lankan food lover 4 LIFE. except for biryani sindhi biryani slayed

[siriindian]

#Siri Indian Cuisine in #Portland #where you can dine in or contact us about catering an event for you. Our menu offers a wide variety of dishes to satisfy whatever you have #Enjoy the best quality Indian food #dine in #take out #all you can eat lunch Specials and catering. Plenty of choices for vegetarians #gluten-free and vegan. #At Siri Indian Cuisine #our goal is to bring you exceptional Indian food made with quality ingredients at affordable prices

[quotidianish]

ANOTHER human au art compilation! Here’s the first! More info about the AU and their cultures under cut ~

Groundwork:

-Abilities which stem from things inherent to dragon biology (fire, venom, frostbreath, gills, etc.) aren’t present. More traditionally supernatural gifts (mindreading, oracle, animus magic, etc.) are still present. In retrospect this makes the Nightwings completely op but shhh

-Each tribe is inspired off a mishmash frankenstein of different real-world cultures

-Dragons are an endangered species, just a hum in the background and nearly hunted to extinction. They’re hardly considered a threat, especially when most humans haven’t even seen one in their lives. Once the centre of each people’s culture and civilisation, they’re now nothing more than Bigfoot sightings or exotic pets.

Culture:

-Sandwings are the least homogeneous tribe and take inspiration from various cultures in the Indian subcontinent and Arab nations (most largely India and Palestine). Many subcultures exist within the larger Sandwing kingdom. Common identifies (not present in them all, but there will usually be at least one) include gold accented accessories, darker skin, and clothing with light, desaturated, yellow/orange tones. They’re renowned for their abundance of poison, excellent street food, musical talent, and stereotypically maliciously intelligent. Regardless of class there’s a nation wide pattern (you can find the reference for it by Qibli’s headscarf) symbolising trade routes, oasis waters and dunes. It’s a symbol of national pride (included on thorn’s dress, and ostrich’s headband/headscarf).

-Nightwings are, on the contrary, the most homogeneous tribe due to their small population. They’re based on Japan (spanning multiple eras). I like to think the Nightwings lost a lot of their culture after migrating to the volcano, for they were once the most religious tribe, worshiping the moon alongside the Icewings, which I’ll get to later on their cultural similarities. I promise it’ll make sense. By now, all their deeply religious traditions have been relegated to superstitions. It was said they were blessed by the moons, but the connection has been largely severed. Only old dresses follow the tradition of embroidering in the moons they were born under. Moonwatcher’s dress is something akin to a hand-me-down, as are her silver earrings, it’s by coincidence it lined up with her actual birthday. Moon’s family was an exception because she came from a long line of seers (or alleged seers) who have done their best to preserve a crumbling culture. Common identifiers include near pitch black clothing and skin as pale as the moon. 

-Icewings have some of the largest populations, however, are surprisingly homogenous. Most sub-cultural differences are as a result of class. They’re based on Mongolia and Manchuria. Like Nightwings they are also deeply religious, maintaining their beliefs through rigorous scholarship. Hair has intrinsic religious value as a gift from your family- therefore it cannot be cut. The same goes for ear piercings and any other physical alterations to your body. IceWing jewellery as a result is very distinct because of its lack of need for an ear piercing, hooking around the back of the ear instead. Common identifies include long/braided hair, and light, cool-colored clothing suited for the cold.

-Skywings are loosely Scottish inspired, and I do not have a lot to say about the rest of the tribes. Most of their clothing have feathered accents. The peregrine is a sign of luck and wealth, with their feathers being adorned on the upper classes. Geese and chickens, being common farm animals, are found adorned on working classes. The second richest tribe, employing silver, gold, lazuli, and about any gem they can find in their clothing. Common identifies include curly orange/red hair, taller statures, feathered accents, a tartan like pattern, and clothing ranging from yellow to magenta.

-Seawings are loosely based on various Polynesian cultures, most prominently that of the Māori. The sea has an intrinsic religious value to them, with all children learning to swim, sail, and/or fish. They live off the sea’s resources, rarely consulting the surrounding land for supplies. On rare occasions albatross birds and seagulls are plucked for headdresses. These are reserved for high ranked royalty. Their clothing is loose and well adapted for the warm beach setting. Common identifiers of Seawings include ta moko like tattoos, olive skin, and clothing ranging from lime to purple.

-Rainwings are loosely based on Thai, Indonesian, and Cambodian cultures. They’re colourful and have the second largest poison reserves (bested by sandwings). Having once been a trade centred tribe, now they’re isolationist, albeit not intentionally. They have many history records, almost as detailed as that of Icewings, but the art has been lost to a changing cultural atmosphere. Once too religious, now their intrinsically religious practices are more cultural. Their clothing is similar to sandwings in the fact they cover as much of the body as convenient but remain loose and breezy. Common identifiers include bronze tan skin, vibrant pigmented clothing, and flower motifs. Nightwing villages don’t follow that guideline, they build on the ground as a tribe with a focus on hunting. I’m assuming everything in this universe is made proportional to dragons, hence why the trees are so large. This assumption is based off that specific panel of Bandit in the book six graphic novel eating a blueberry as big as his head. 

-Mudwings are sooo underdeveloped in my au (following in the steps of Tui herself) but they’re based on southern Chinese and Vietnamese cultures! They live in cities akin to Chinese floating villages, Vietnamese floating markets, and Tulou (architectural style of the Chinese Hakka) made of mud bricks. They're a very agricultural based people. Many of their villages are isolated communities- their emphasis on family extending to their towns. Common identifiers include umber skin, straw conical hats, and practical clothing in shades of brown.

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