Adrianna Tan

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Adrianna Tan
skinnylatte@hachyderm-io.mostr.pub
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Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics. My hobby is having hobbies. I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, film photography. I post photos of cats and octopus.
As a person with southern Chinese tastes, I am very picky about (East Asian) soups. Anything that tastes like water, or lightly flavored water, is not acceptable to me. I don’t always have the time to do a double boiled Cantonese soup either. I just made a fake tonkotsu soup with some broth, and homemade (unsweetened) soy milk. It’s all about layering flavors. Borrowing a leaf from the Japanese ramen playbook (where a flavored ‘tare’ is a big part of the top notes of a soup), I did a garlic confit in some fat / oil, then reduced soy sauce, dark soy sauce, scallions, ginger, and combined the liquids before serving. There are so many East Asian soup techniques. Many of them have overlaps. My favorite will still be my grandmother’s peasant / struggle soup base: a bunch of mince with a handful of dried anchovies and spinach. The taste of my childhood. Dried soy beans, dried mushrooms, seaweed, goji berries, different roots, are all easy ways to bring out lots of flavor cheaply too. #Food #ChineseFood
"China is so central to Meta’s scam problem that the company believes its national holidays affect the level of fraud on Facebook and Instagram globally: During the “Golden Week” holiday in October, when hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens travel, the rate of scams on Meta’s platforms declines worldwide, one document notes." https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates-rampant-ad-fraud-china-safeguard-billions-revenue-2025-12-15/
In a discussion about ‘what did you have to learn in order to live abroad’ (for Singaporeans), the most popular response was ‘that other countries don’t have restaurants with good and cheap food for 20 hours a day. And you gotta learn to cook’ LOL true