[mdom]

My mom doesn't use the rice cooker because she thinks it's too much of a hassle to clean xD

[bluebird]

who is this burnt rice

[Espy]

...I’m mycophobic but I love mushrooms as a food. Bit of a long explanation there, though.

Also I’m apparently the only person in my family who can make decent rice in a... er... electric... pot...? 電鍋? What the heck is the english word for that? Not an actual rice cooker.

[KittyBeary]

Woot another hangout!

[Stabbsworth]

burnt rice is okok, they just got a name change.

[say]

I kind of don't want to post I like this label sm lmao

[Espy]

Could always ask for a title change.

[mdom]

I also love mushrooms as food but would rather not find them elsewhere ever

lol espy posting chinese characters as if anyone would know what you're talking about. I feel ya.

[Espy]

Stick them in google image search; easier than me trying to find words.

[mdom]

I did the same when I was younger. Like my mom would mix japanese words in portuguese so I really thought zabuton was a real word that my friends didn't know instead of me not knowing the word in portuguese. 'you know guys... the x'

[Espy]

What... what's a zabuton.

My mom and I speak this really mixed mess of english and mandarin when it's just us and my dad talking (my dad and I lean towards a larger proportion of english), and my last roomie looked at me after one particular phone call and was like "I could understand maybe every other word; do you usually just talk like that with your mom?"

"...Yeah?"

But then grammar gets wonky, and my mom has apparently spoken Mandarin w her old friends but w english grammar and they get super confused and weirded out, haha.

And she sometimes turns to me and goes "what's the word for x in mandarin?"

"...you are asking the WRONG person."

or, I say what the word is, and then pause, and then she pauses, and then we both realized she asked the wrong person who still somehow knew what the word was.

It's funny, I don't know what's considered my first language, bc technically the first word I apparently ever said was "doggy" in mandarin, but growing up, it was always a mix of mandarin and english. I suppose it might be english, since I think in english.

[mdom]

It's like a pillow to sit on, in chairs or on the ground
but I thought it was like, common to every household!!
Like eating rice in bowls!!
I was not prepared for the world

[Espy]

...People eat rice in not-bowls?

[Stabbsworth]

we used to eat rice on a plate. not very good rice.

[mdom]

It's the plate that made rice taste weird

[Stabbsworth]

nah, uncle ben's rice is sort of crappy, y'know?