Never seen this person in my life (Stevens).

Saw a photo of her earlier today and thought exactly what you just said.

This is the second photo I've seen of her and... I think it may be more than that for her.

Welcome to the kleptocracy.

Yes I have lived and dined in Toronto. I remember Ossington street very fondly. But I consider these to be exceptions as you have rightfully acknowledged as anecdotal. You have a decent chance of getting authentic international cuisine in cities like NYC, Toronto and London but this is not where most Westerners live. Most Westerners live where they're in some way getting a watered down version of international cuisine.

I've lived in smaller Canadian and American cities also. You'll be fine if you're ok with pizza, burgers (nothing wrong with that) and Americanized Chinese/Mexican of significantly variable quality. Once you go outside of those bounds it's an adventure and often not a pleasant one.

Sure but we also should not exaggerate the inclusivity of "the West" The availability of international restaurants has little influence on what people outside of diaspora groups are making in their kitchen. Consumption is one thing but when it comes to household cooking a lot of the perception of rice here is limited to risotto at best and Uncle Ben's at worst. That's not even getting into the fact that a lot of the cuisines you listed were looked down upon in the West until as recently as thirty years ago (and some still are).

I mean, you have to add to potatoes too if you want to get real flavor out of them. That versatility means little without salt and pepper. Frying can help but you can fry rice too.

Sake is fermented rice wine, as smooth as a good vodka in my opinion.

One of my favorite rice based dishes is a rice and coconut pancake from south India called appam. Paired with the right curry it's the perfect balance of savory with just a touch of sweetness.

Staples are staples for a reason. They're all incredibly versatile.

That was over exam fraud. The education minister resigned which was the goal so that protest ended. This protest was started by both the federal opposition party and the roach protestors on Sept 24.

It started that way but became a cost of living protest.

Protest in India is against the election commission for manipulation of the voter roll. I've seen Western media get this wrong as well.

Eurocentric history has erased major Asian milestones including Tang Dynasty woodblock printing, Bi Sheng's ceramic movable type, and Korean metal movable type. Framing Gutenberg's press as a uniquely European development completely ignores those innovations.

It's a shitpost sub. Agreed. But Eurocentric historical bias / propaganda needs to be called out if we're actually going to have an honest grasp of the world and the many civilizations that have contributed to its progress.

The diabetic and lactase deficient Dave's coconut milk ice cream with monk fruit and allulose quarterly social.

The argument is even weaker if we go to before the Industrial Revolution. The Renaissance and scientific revolution happened on the shoulders of intellectual property borrowed/taken from global civilizational giants and on the backs of forced / coerced labor in colonial occupied territories. The luxury of having intellectuals in coffee shops pondering how society should be structured could have only happened by exploited labor in the colonies propping up their livelihoods and arguably through contact with pre-civilizational (indigeneous) societies in the Americas.

Two civilizational giants that come to mind are China and India. Chinese scholars, as you know, invented paper without which the printing press is not possible in the way that we conceive it today. India invented the numerical notation system that allows us to communicate large values and datasets in an efficient manner.

If not for the work of Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi and (most importantly for Europe) Fibonacci this notation system would have never been accepted as the number system we use today was considered to be sacrilege and mystical in Europe for centuries.

For paper, as with numerical notation, the practice was brought to Europe with advancement by Islamic civilizations. Cai Lun, Zuo Bo and Fan Ye were crucial in the development of paper which spread globally as we perceive it today.

The colonial narrative, for hundreds of years was that this progress happened in isolation and that was used to justify racism and genocide. I'm glad that in 2026 we are able to unravel such narratives at the seams.

Hey now dudes over 6 feet can be femboys too. Don't let your height limit your possibilities, king (?queen).