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Sooo I just found a proxy that will actually allow me to sign in!

Yeah, just now. A day before I go home. Stop looking at me like that, you all knew how ridiculous I am already. Well, at least I'll have plenty to do tonight; if there's any friendslocked posts in particular any of you guys want me to catch up with, comment here or PM me with a link, yeah?

A quick bit about food in Shanghai:

Honestly, I don't like most of it. Boiled dumplings, other things, I don't like the staples. A lot of the rice is done more dryly? I don't know if that's really a Shanghai thing or if it's just the places we've eaten at.

But the seafood more than makes up for it. Much more than. For lunch today part of the appetizer was this um...salad (I think that's the best word for it - it was mostly celery; there was a sauce, kind of buttery I think) that had shrimp in it. Most delicious shrimp I've had. I think it was a combination of not cooking it too long, and serving it at room-temperature; the taste was...almost offensively shrimpy, is the best way I can describe it.

I am missing American food, though. I want pizza, pasta, that kind of thing; I think I might be craving red sauce in particular, which isn't unusual because I tend to when I'm on my period. My body seems to subscribe to the old idea of replacing like with like. Bleeding? Let's have some red things! When I have a cold, I crave nacho cheese. Yeah, I just compared nacho cheese with snot; who wants taco bell?

I really want more of that shrimp. Scromf.

I'm going to try to figure out how to make the fried rice I've had here. White rice, with egg, chives, and what seemed to be sea salt. Fried in...peanut oil, maybe; seems most likely, but if so the taste was light (because of the salt? or maybe because I'm getting used to peanut oil?)

I might start using more peanut oil at home, too, since my stomach handles it much better than it does vegetable oil. It might be difficult to find peanut oil in the US, but I can always try the nearest Asian grocer.

Sorry, this post is a bit discombobulated. I mostly just wanted to use a different avatar than the one I've been using for the past million years three weeks (this is a long time to my tiny brain).