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It's nothing to do with AirBnB. It's normal in most homes around the western world. I agree with @weinoo. Your list is somewhat excessive. When you are travelling, improvise. No one needs a paring knife AND a veg peeler, however convenient at home. I haven't possessed a bread knife for decades and manage just fine. Ditto can opener. Can you explain your reasoning behind limiting spices/herbs to six? Frankly, I'd be outside seeing what they have locally instead of carrying all that with me.

I'm sure it is but that website is terrible. Very light blue and gray text on a white background? I couldn't read a thing.

Another unedifying, emergency dinner. A rush job came up and I had no time to go shopping. Instead I spent my valuable food acquisition time translating some promotional nonsense about a drinks product I don't even like. Looming deadlines and all that. Why didn't you send me it a week ago? So, fried rice with canned tuna (in olive oil), shallots, garlic, scallions, green chillies, hope and prayers. Actually, it was rather good, if I say so myself, which I just did.

Monkfruit, Siraitia grosvenorii , in Chinese 罗汉果 / 羅漢果 (Mandarin: luó hàn guǒ; Cantonese: lo4 hon3 gwo2), is said to be 300* times sweeter than sugar and is used industrially in making "artificial" sweeteners. Lakantol monkfruit sweetener. Note: desite saying "No Additives" it does contain erythritol, another sweetener which has been linked to increased risk of heart disease. Round these parts, the fruits are usualy sold dried and used in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat cold symptoms and sore throats, by being used to make a kind of herbal tea or soup. Dried Monkfruit However, we do sometimes get them fresh when they are in season, which is now. I have to say, I don't really like them. Too sweet with a bitter aftertaste. So far as I can see, most poeple just dry them themselves anyway! The fresh ones are another thing I've never seen in supermarkets or even markets, but usually being sold by street vendors. Must ask why. * Edited to add this is coincidentally the 300th post in this topic. Just noticed.

Here, finally, Pachyrhizus erosus. Chinese: 凉薯 (Mand: liáng shǔ ) or 豆薯 (Mand: dòu shǔ) English: Jicama or Yam Bean These lot were selling this morning for 1.48元/500g (21cents USD). Used in hotpots, stirfries, pickled and occasionally eaten raw. Do not refrigerate!

Great news! Hope never to see you on this topic again!

No. It isn't.

Beef marinated with garlic, ginger, chilli, Shaoxing wine and soy sauce. White button mushrooms and Chinese chives. Rice. Served with wilted baby bok choy.

Pandas, people and other engandered species. Anything else goes.

It is a worthwhile addition to any compost heap. But That’s it.

Jiaozi with yellow Sriracha

Nothing new about microwave rice. Knorr have been doing it for decades. And they cut 30 seconds off your cooking time according to their ads.

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Yes, I guessed that but couldn't resist.

Corn flavored ice cream is quite a thing here. What are they thinking of? Why do I stay?

Did the yogurt really have 0% fruit? Or was there no fruit yogurt?

Not the prettiest dinner, but tasty. Chicken and red lentil curry with rice.

Of course. I was merely pointing out that the "fresh" mangosteens in the US might not be so "fresh" after all. I'm not only in China right now. I've lived here a quarter of a century.

It ain't my URL. And anyway, the URL doesn't mention pizzerias. The image in the article that URL leads to shows clearly it's a pizza and sandwich shop.

I don't squeeze them. When they are really fresh, I can get through the skin with my thumb nail and peel like an orange (although admittedly a little tougher).

That's not a good sign. I get them almost year round and they can easily be opened without the use of a knife.

It isn't a pizzeria.

I think the white fleshed variety works best in a mixed fruit salad. More for visual effect than taste. But the red ones I'll happily scarf on their own.

When I started this topic two years a go, the last thing I wanted was for anyone else to suffer what I did. Your food looks a lot worse than what I got. At least mine looked like food and I could choose what variety of unseasoned, overcooked sludge I preferred. Get out out of there ASAP, please!