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Q: Do you find suan nai (sour milk) annoying?
I don't know why, but it bugs me to no end.
I especially noticed that a lot of women love suan nai in the late night after they've been drinking.
At a 7-11 near my place there's a massive rack of suan nai that's almost always sold out by the end of the day.
I've even seen glamorous sensual commercials for like..."high end" suan nai or something. Makes my blood boil.
Maybe you shouldn't be getting that upset about something that trivial?
"Suan nai" mean yoghurt in Chinese, and yoghurt in China means water, milk powder, coagulants, and half a truckload of sugar.
Have an upvoteMaybe you shouldn't be getting that upset about something that trivial?
"Suan nai" mean yoghurt in Chinese, and yoghurt in China means water, milk powder, coagulants, and half a truckload of sugar.
Yoghurt is an excellent digestant/stomach relaxant.
I usually make my own, 'cause Chinese is full of CH (sugar), but drinking it some half an hour before the nap makes relaxing stomach feeling.
In Fuk, I could get real cow's milk of farmers, and I drank a liter or so a day, sometimes mixed with water.
Kefir is even better, but it's not easy to get special macro-something grains necessary for the proper milk fermentation.
I love it. I am a heavy consumer. Naturally it needs to be consumed with the correct cereals on top.
Chinese yogurt is sugary garbage. It is easy to make at home if you can get some good quality milk, which is very difficult in China, fat and protein content is rather low compared to what comes out of happy cows from northern Europe.
icnif77:
After I read your post, I think you get 'down' because of the seldom appearance here
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Yes, when I first came to China wishing for real milk, I made the mistake countless of times buying that yogurt milk. Not a fan
I love yogurt. Not so keen on that watery milky yogurty stuff but some of the stuff here is acceptable enough.
They put massive thickening agents in that crap; it's thicker than honey most of the time.
Glad to be out of China. No more suan nai, and hello real yoghurt, cheese, butter (was good for one week until I remembered I never ate butter before I went to china), real whipped cream, ice cream, dutch vla, kwark, pudding, cream youghurt, butter biscuits, custard...
Did I mention the cereals? Corn Flakes as my Welcome Home, then muesli, wheaties, honey puffs, milk bits, rice krispies, special K, honey nut flakes, frosted flakes, frosted you-name-it. The only downside, is that the fibers make me need the toilet after about an hour, meaning I leave the house later than planned.
And since my wife has annexed the kitchen for the sake of Chinese cultural chauvinism, it helps us all to get enough fibers. Seriously, it's more China than your average Chinatown: 3-layer steaming pan, wokpan, deep fryer (technically it's for chips, but she wanted it), spice bags, herb bags, noodle bags, chili pots, rice cooker, meat grinder (local mincedmeat tastes 'bad'), blender, always some leftovers and rarely cleaned up.
ambivalentmace:
damn, if and when i move back to america, i am going to need 2 kitchens, a clean one for me to cook and a hazardous material room for the chinese wife. thanks for the info, have to plan ahead now, dont like surprises.
