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[Lemon Cheesecake]

... americanized all the sauce bases basically taste the same, not much distinction...where in actual asian dishes you get different and stronger flavors depending on what dish you order.

I like the rich colors over neon anytime.

[ShiroGEM]

o g od that sucks especially when everything comes with sauces here :: where my peanut sauce, sesame oil, vinegar and chilli with shrimp roe c':

ayy
neon colours are eye-bleed sometimes so i no longer own any highlighters haha

[galled]

I know what Lemon means. Unless you go to a big city, they try and homogenize the sauce flavors to 4 or 5 (sweet and sour, oyster, black bean, chili, hoisin). It's a lot of work to cook with so many different variations in a smaller establishment with not much call for flavors outside the most common standards.

I guess I'm a stickler too for traditional coloring. Neons have their place if they're part of the design and not just a grab or attention.

That said, THANK YOU so much for the dresses, Shiro! I love them!

[Watery Star]

The dresses are gorgeous, thanks Shiro!

I don't care for neon colors either, too bright for my sensitive eyes. xp

Peanut sauce became really popular years ago (It was like 12 years ago >.>; I'm old)
It still seems fairly common in my area. I know the Asian restaurants I've ordered from carries it. There are a lot of Chinese takeout places though and the quality varies greatly. A lot can be run of the mill, generic Americanized, same ole' basic menu.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I do like the peanut sauce...for pad thai noodles, or as a dip for spring rolls or even as a dressing for a tossed green salad. I've never tried to make it myself though and haven't found one in the grocery stores that I particularily favor.

[NerdyAliCat]

We made chicken and noodles with peanut sauce the other night for dinner. It was really nice!
And quite easy to make

[Watery Star]

Cool! I like peanut sauce as long as it's not overkill.

[ShiroGEM]

I'm literally drooling right now haha
do you guys have sesame sauce too? I forgotten all about it but i had the chance to eat it in a Taiwanese restaurant the other day

it was soooo good

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Why is it the restaurant ones always seem to taste better then the ones you buy in the store?

[ShiroGEM]

they probably mix it with a bunch of other stuff, i haven't found sesame sauce that's for noodles in a store ever
maybe its a combination of sesame oil and other sauces
it's kind of like how you gotta put together a bunch of herbs and oil or sauce to make salad dressing taste good ^^

[Lemon Cheesecake]

hmmm trade secrets..."special sauce" ingredient...I get it.

Now I am going to go eat though.

[ShiroGEM]

pffft
i'm sure it's not rlly that, ok maybe the ratios are going to be secret
but most of this stuff has been around for like more than a century

[ShiroGEM]

side note: been playing around with VRoid even though its hard as heck

[galled]

Very awesome! I'd never heard of vroid. Can the models be animated?

[ShiroGEM]

yea you can export using the camera renderer ^^, but i have no idea how to bring it into blender or other programs