Anarcho-Syndicalist-Trotskyist-Stalinist Cuban Revolutionary 
So one of the major negatives of Singapore is our fricking weather, where a thunderstorm could erupt suddenly on a scorching hot day. That coupled with how everywhere's air-conditioned because frick the heat means that we alternate between hot and cold temperatures the whole day... and I guess I finally succumbed and got the sniffles or covid or something, which was coincidentally after a trip to our fake snow city. Speaking of the fake snow area, how the frick are people able to wear masks outdoors in the cold? It was such a horrible experience, and I can't believe people are actually advocating for it. 
Much like in the West, a chicken soup is our go to for comfort food for when we're feeling under the weather, so maybe we're not that different after all. Then again I remember how cordyceps are literally a parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars as I slurp them down, I guess we might be that different after all... Hmmm yummy
https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/cordyceps-new.jpg
Close enough to the picture I guess... 
So dramautists, what's your favourite comfort food? Any unique ones in your culture that people should know about or try?
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Snapshots:
snow city:
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yeah watermelons are a comfort food i guess, love them!
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Get that melone my snagga
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this is the worst marsey i've ever seen
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Do you have a pod to live in that goes with the bugs to eat?
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Wrong bug, those are the non-pod bugs that I ate
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161125-the-worms-that-cost-20000-a-kilo
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It's bug fungus?
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it's... a caterpillar/ant that was afflicted with a parasitic fungus.
Sir David Attenborough explains it best:
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So, yes... it's a bug fungus.
Is it supposed to cure your Covid?
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no lol i don't think i have covid, i'm just under the weather. it's supposedly to help with fatigue - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28094746/
I don't mind the placebo effect anyway hehe
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What does it taste like?
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hmm.. a tasteless slice of a mushroom i guess. the better ones has that ginseng texture. they're already boiled for hours in soup so how they taste might have more to do with what else was in the soup..
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Yes, but it’s
so it costs 1.8 million USD.
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my comfort food is bourbon
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Shrimp in grits 🥵🥵🥵
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I haven't had shrimp and grits in forever. Had a fraternity brother that used to make them for the house maybe once a year, usually during the Christmas break. I wish I had a legit recipe since it's not something I grew up with and don't wanna frick it up with some white woman recipe off the internet.
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The problem with a lot of white women recipes (that don't come from older mom-moms) is that the white women feel the need to make it their own and put a "twist" on it. But the twist is usually something r-slurred that ruins the harmony of the dish.
I also don't like seeing any kind of white people in certain kitchens because I know they are probably back there fricking something up. Like, if I see a whitoid at a sushi restaurant, I walk right out.
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I'll take whitey's advice on certain food but only if they're from the South. At least they know how to season they darn food for the most part. I went to a work lunch one time and some dude from Kansas complained that the tartar sauce was too spicy.
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Same. I'm not surprised about that Kansas dude. Don't Midwest whitoids eat nothing but disgusting casseroles
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Shrimp: however much you want
Grits: however much you want
Salt & Pepper: however much you want
Cheese: however much you want
Other spices if you're really fancy but they're unnecessary for good eatin
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I thought you guys ate cordyceps grown on a substrate, I can't even imagine eating a bugshroom. I would kill to try this, is it an umami mushroomy flavor or more earthy mushroomy? My comfort food is porcini pasta or hedgehog mushroom soup, but here in the cold north, I guess our comfort food is smalahåve.
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Oklahoma comfort food: a 20 oz ribeye, cornbread, fried okra and
calf fries.
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Homemade chicken pot pie is my go-to. I make an excellent one
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The classic American comfort food is mac & cheese and maybe fried chicken lol. Burgers could also probably be considered comfort food
Some Lebanese comfort foods are kibbeh, kafta, and maybe kousa? Kousa is hard to make though so I'm not really sure that it's a comfort food. I would say hummus as well but that's not really a full meal
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i fricking love hummus and had a phase where i dipped all my food in hummus because they were so healthy and delicious LOL
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Yeah I love hummus too but it's hard to find some here that's as good as you can get in Lebanon. I've tried to make it myself and it still didn't really taste the same, but maybe I'm just shit at making it lmao
There's also baba ghanoush which is another pita bread dip/side dish but it's made from eggplant and not chickpeas. It's not as good as hummus imo but it's still pretty good
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sounds absolutely delicious! yum yum but i got a wedding shoot soon
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As someone who lives somewhere with cold winters, these people are actually r-slurred. They're just looking for an excuse to praise wearing masks to show how virtuous they are.
Also fricking lmao at a whole chicken leg in the soup like that. Chicken soup should have bite-sized boneless pieces of chicken, not just a whole leg.
Anyways, it's not really cultural at all, but I actually like jello when I have a sore throat or upset stomach. It goes down super easily and even feels a bit soothing.
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So mask wearing in cold conditions is really that miserable of an experience? I mean I wore ski masks to combat the winter winds and it's fine and not a good comparison. Those surgical masks outdoors just felt like prolonged suffering for nothing.
I think it's a difference in style of cooking, Asian soups generally use the whole chicken leg for the taste, savoury tastes can be extracted from the tendons to the bones
You should try it if you have a chance! It's really yummy and warm when done right, and even considered relatively "healthy" since it's not high in calories
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COVID masks, yes. Good cold-weather masks include vent holes for a very good reason, to avoid becoming drenched in condensation. That also makes them useless for stopping the spread of anything, of course.
No, we do that too - it's pretty common for a homemade chicken soup to be made with the carcass of an otherwise eaten cooked chicken. We just remove that before serving. How do you even eat this? We eat our soups with spoons, but you're not gonna eat a whole chicken leg with it. Do you eat some of the soup and then pick the chicken leg up with your fingers to eat it, before going back to a spoon?
FWIW, I don't like soups too much. I've just been baking chicken thighs (bone in, skin on) and eating them with some nice bbq sauce, with a bit of rice as a side if I feel like I want more calories from the meal.
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yup that's the way when no company's present or when there's no one to impress lol. if not we use our ching chong chop sticks to take apart the chicken into smaller pieces. it's just that grabbing that drumstick and eating it makes it more tasty due to the king factor LOL
The funny thing about Chinese customs is that the drumsticks are supposed to be served to the guest of honour or the most elderly in the family as respect, so if they can handle the drumstick with grace, you better not be far behind!
thanks for the explanation. i thought my mask was drenched like heck cause i was dying or had cancer or something
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Lol only a mayoid fears a chicken bone in their soup. My son was eating caldo de pollo and pozole with chicken drumsticks in them when he was as young as 2.
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I'm not scared of them lol, it's just weird. Like putting ketchup on a salad.
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As an ItalianX PoC my comfy food is unironically pasta
The only problem, we import most of our grain from North America and the last harvesting there was scarce and now prices are skyrocketing
. G-d, I wish the nation was autarchic but I guess this is the price to pay for losing the Battle of Grain
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fuuuck that's awful, pasta is a super cheap staple food, hope the poors there do okay if the prices get jacked
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It is not too bad right now but journos
and economists 
say it's gonna be worse in the next month, let's see if this time their apocalyptic visions hold true
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well getting covid gives you natural immunity and the right to suan doomers in /r/singapore
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3168286/let-me-get-covid-please-shifting-views-virus-singapore
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lol i'm pretty certain almost everyone had covid without knowing it was covid anyway, i was still flying around when it was declared a pandemic and i've yet to be hit by it, nor has anyone in my immediate family contracted it... almost makes me think that covid's just a small cold
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chinx has better immunity to covid since its a chinx-engineered virus, look at the death rates of
vs 
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hehehe and somemore a lot of us had taken the BCG immunization, which IIRC offered even more protection due to cell messaging or something, I'm r-slurred so I can't recall too well
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lmao really? i was just drunk shitposting.
that and i guess high
rates really help in the case of sg, but not sure if the case/death rates for china can be trusted
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Fricking nerd gimme your lunch money
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Tom kha is my favorite comfort food. The hotter, the better. I have not had cordyceps soup but I bet I’d love it. That’s much more your continent than mine, so my favorite American comfort food is BURGER AND FRIES! Of course.
I also like corned beef and rice.
Masks make breathing in the cold easier. Unless you have glasses. Which I do not.
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A burger that loves hot food! You should really go to Thailand for the delicious street food... the desserts are pleasant to look at too, should such thoughts ever cross your mind
don't worry about surprise peepee, the ones there almost always aren't narcissistic degenerates and have the common sense and courtesy to let you know lol 
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I had some absolute ripper barramunda from a small shop in a tiny coastal town when I was younger
been chasing that high ever since
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maybe the BarraCUDA could fix that hehe
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oddly niche thing to know about
is chiobu secretly a programmingsockcel?
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based and arsenic-containing-pilled.
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eating food is violence I sustain myself on cosmic background radiation
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NGL, I like masks when it's cold and especially cold and windy.
Maybe a weird comfort food, but when I'm sick I get sparkling water for no reason other than I enjoy the bubbles and it makes me drink more fluids.
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surgical masks? i was in a cold and humid situation so i guess our experiences differed A LOT cause I was breathing in my own sweat or something lmfao
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It's usually quite dry here when it's cold, so probably different. It also gets really cold here, lol.
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I wanna be like
@chiobu.
Edit: any noodle soup
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Gravy straight from the can.
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Wearing masks in cold + humid weather is a nightmare. Your breath keeps condensing on your mask, so it gets all wet
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I actually found them to be quite nice during -20C and below weather but then again I'm a Siberiacel.
It's like a scarf for your mouth and cheeks which is where it hurts the most during winter.
My favorite comfort food is probably tom yum weirdly enough, I like it even more than borscht.
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by masks i was referring to surgical masks that we're required to wear, the one you were referring to i understand, trust me i do not love to be sliced by that winter wind lol.
borscht is not spicy yes? maybe that's why
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Oh yeah, I usually wear a cloth mask that's a bit larger and more fitting than a surgical mask. Forgot to mention that, sorry lol. I wore a surgical mask outside a few times this winter and it was definitely worse than the tight fitting cloth ones but at least it prevented my beard and mustache from having icicles on it. This winter was also really warm for where I live. Usually we get at least a few days where it gets below -35C and sometimes -40C but this time the worst was only about -26C. Last time winter was this warm was about 7 or 8 years ago.
Yes, you hit the nail on the head, lol. For whatever reason I've loved food so spicy it would make the average Russian cry since my childhood and tom yum hits the same savory/sweet/sour notes that borscht does but is also spicy. Any hot and sour soup is great in the winter really.
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I'm not sure where you are located, but if there are Chinese restaurants operated by Sichuan/Szechuan ( 四川 ) chinks, go for their hot and sour soup too! The moment when you accidentally bite into a peppercorn rendering all your tastes numb is one of the greatest surprise in cuisine, IMO. Most Chink restaurants probably claim to serve the same dish, but it might not be as authentic.
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I know a few restaurants here owned by Chinese migrants but all of them are from northern China, either Hebei or Heilongjiang. All the Chinese foreign students I taught chemistry classes were from there too (a PhD student coworker from Harbin made banger jiaozi though).
I've wanted to try real Sichuan cuisine for a while but I guess I'll just have to order bean pastes and Sichuan peppercorns and try to make it myself until I make a trip to China.
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Flamin Hot Cheetos
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Chibou you are rich. 蟲草 is rather expansive.
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Coincidentally I’m at the supermarket and I probably used something like this to cook it lol
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/r/nootropics thinks cordeyceps make you smarter. The cordyceps you eat arent grown on bugs but some generic rice substrate.
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the boundless wisdom of the orient 🛐
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i'm a Singaporean first, and a Chinese second. pls dont idpol me
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Thanks for response babe.
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