💬Weekly random discussion & chat thread: W15

Oh yeah I'm also adding another one.

Live2D animation.....

I like how the animation is used in most mobile games I play but 1) The process looks so confusing 2) Most of my characters' details looks quite intricate to separate all the assets for a Live2D and can I have the patience for that ahgfdaghfd

The thing I want to learn the most is webcomic though. I tried to read every panelling and typesetting tips and guides to backgrounds or planning and whatnot but I'm 100% sure I'll forget all of them once I actually start on the thing orz

Caine

I don't know anything about Tyrano but I knew basically nothing about python when I jumped into ren'py and it was super easy to pickup and do unique things with. But Godot is literally the same with "you already know what you're doing, here's our language to do the same thing" garbage. Good luck!

I'd love to learn how to write better than 10 year old in english but my mother language is too damn different grammatically that I just fail to put together proper sentences that would be considered a good writing and not awkward snoozefest. Was thinking about buying books in english because reading is supposed to help you with writing but they are so expensive here?? Unless you want something super popular which I'm in most cases not a fan of so.. fml

Also coding.. I'm just too dumb to understand that no matter how many beginner guides I tried to follow

Week 3: What is your favorite local cuisine or food?

* You're free to share from your own or other countries'!

even though i’m like two hours away from the ocean i don’t really like seafood , but literally anything from a seafood place is good . like specifically chicken strips made at seafood places are almost always super good *-* though i have been meaning to try shrimp and maybe go out of my comfort zone 

not sure if other coasts have it but the northwest coast also has a bunch of candy stores with stuff they make there and it always smells so good in there ..... i just miss going to the coast because it’s cold and windy and rainy this time of year sggafafshags

local food for me is all fast food or deep fried unfortunately (unfortunately... as if i'm not at maccas on the regular) - but there is a little sushi shop i like to visit! they have all sorts of great food there and not just sushi :0! there is a woman i know who used to own a rly nice indian restaurant but due to circumstances it had to close down but sometimes she cooks us nice curries when we visit her at her home so i still count her food as some of my fave local cuisine ;w;

I really like Japanese food. Mixed rice is really easy to make and I enjoy it! Also, I went vegetarian recently, and there's a lot of easy vegetarian dishes to make! I also really love onigiri, but it takes a bit too long to make,,,

Week 3: What is your favorite local cuisine or food?

Finnish food is imo incredibly bland which makes sense because we have been a poor country in the past struggling to live so it only makes sense the foods are relatively simple. I really super enjoy pea soup though, it's so fast and easy to make when it's just in a can and it feels strange you can't really buy that stuff from everywhere? Likewise mashed potatoes, reindeer meat & lingonberry jam is good as long as the meat is cooked well, otherwise it'll feel really.. idk sticky? I also like elk meat and we eat it at home every Christmas instead of buying ham + they always come from hunters straight, this year from my brother who was part of the hunt so Free Meat

My country is a multiracial/cultural country so its hard to choose one (especially I used to live in a place that doesn't solely focus on Malaysian foods, but also Chinese and Muslim-Indians) but I love the roti canai flatbread a lot.... also nasi kandar and kuey teow? I have no idea what are the exact English names for these foods plus the wikipedia just list the names like that rip. 

Japanese dishes are very limited here (unless you pay more $$$ for the "rare" ones) but sushi is A++. I also tried  pandan chicken before and it's....godsent and I want to try it again....... (my late dad bought it from Indonesia, but google says it's a Thailand cuisine? Both are respectively my parents' origin, funnily enough-) Speaking of Thai....Tom Yum is great too, I love it the most in hotpots lol.

We do have Western foods here but not those I consider a local speciality I guess since it's just the usual burgers and pizzas.

          ...Despite I consider myself a really picky eater, my reply is going to be ridiculously long. After all, Thailand has quite a number of good food.

•      Start off with ไส้กรอกอีสาน/Sai krok Isaan or its literal meaning name, Sai krok Khao (aka rice sausages). This food is originated from the Isaan region or northeast Thailand. I grew up eating them quite often to the point that nowadays unless I'm particularly in meat-craving mood, I prefer this kind of sausages over usual meat sausages.
•      Then, I also like Massaman curry a lot, possibly my most favorite type of curry. I tend to be a potato addict (for the amount of potato chips and french fries I eat my entire life) and Massaman is a rare gem of Thai cuisine that actually includes potato in the recipe. (After all, potato is quite a foreign element to Thai cuisine)
•      ข้าวมันไก่/Khao Man Kai is known in English as Hainanese chicken rice. This is one of my go-to meal. Seriously during my high school year, the vendor who sold this dish in my school cafeteria remembered me because I basically ate it everyday for lunch.
•      Another go-to dish for me but since no one sold it in my school cafeteria is ข้าวผัดกะเพรา/Holy Basil Fried Rice (though I honestly prefer it without fried egg, unlike the 'signature look' of this dish).
•      Of course, being a Thai means I have to like Tom Yum, one type or another. While Tom Yum Kung is super famous abroad, local Thais hardly ever have a real chance to eat it because prawns and shrimps are ungodly expensive here. Most of the time I settle for Tom Yum Kai (chicken hot and sour soup).

          Welp... that's definitely getting long so I'll just name the rest without explanation - หมูสะเต๊ะ(pork satay), ข้าวเหนียวหมูปิ้ง(sticky rice with grilled pork), ต้มผักกาดดอง(sour pickled Chinese cabbage soup), ผัดซีอิ๊ว(stir-fried broad rice noodle with pork) and เย็นตาโฟ/Yentafo (notice how Thais mess up the original Chinese name, LOL)