oolong

oolong wrote

Reply to Things you can do to fancy up your ramen by hollyhoppet

slap a slice of american cheese on it when it's done!!! i also like to boil fish balls with the ramen

and ramen daisuki koizumi-san it has a few other ramen eating things in it if anyone wants to watch an anime about ramen

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oolong wrote

Reply to Why, in China and Japan, a copy is just as good as an original – Byung-Chul Han | Aeon Essays by Moonside

Chinese artists … never lose sight of the fact that producing works in large numbers exemplifies creativity, too. They trust that, as in nature, there always will be some among the 10,000 things from which change springs.

this reminds me of ai weiwei's sunflower seeds exhibition, millions of individually painted and crafted seeds, none of them really unique but still singular

and re the last paragraph, the way i was taught to approach brush painting and calligraphy was more focused on creating a kind of flow for strokes. like, having a feel for qi or the spirit of nature in order to transfer that power into your work. it sounds really uhhh superstitious i guess from a western perspective but it is what it is

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oolong wrote

Reply to i have many teabags in my house by cat

i have both teabags and leaves for black tea, but i like the tea bags more. for green, puerh and oolong tea, i only have loose leaf and bricks. this is considerably less tea than the typical chinese home

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