Month: July 2024

Glass Noodle Bento

This glass noodle bento is vegan and about 350 calories:

Glass Noodle Fry: about 300 cal
Corn/Sweet Pepper Saute: about 40 calories
Steamed Broccoli: About 10 calories
Carrot Cutouts: negligible

Glass Noodle fry is adapted from this recipe. I modified it a little by using 2 Just Eggs and Wan Ja Shan Vegetarian Mushroom Oyster Sauce instead of fish sauce.

I’m pretty happy with the colors in this. I always try to hit all 5 colors when I make a bento.

Yellow: Corn
Red: Red Sweet Pepper and Red Chili Pepper
Green: Gai Lan in the Noodle Fry, Steamed Broccoli
White: Sesame Seeds
Black: Black Pepper on the Corn/Sweet Pepper Saute.

Because the glass noodles don’t get hard in the fridge like rice does, you can assemble the bento entirely the night before.

(This was posted on my reddit account but I am also uploading it here)

Hello world!

Who makes a real blog in 202X?

  1. Someone said something about the perception of Madoka Magica as it was airing which didn’t sound right to me as someone who watched it as it came out. But when I went to try and verify what had actually happened in 2011, I found that the vast majority of discussion was no longer around. The only thing that remained were a few WordPress blogs.
  2. I was planning a backpacking trip and wanting to see how other people did it and what the trail conditions were. However, when googling, the majority of reports were over 10 years old and prior to 2012. This makes sense because I think around 2012 is when Facebook really started to eat personal blogs.
  3. I was looking around for some vegan bento ideas. Again, the majority of results were well over 10 years old. What happened to these blogs? They got subsumed by unindexible Facebook groups, subreddits, YouTube videos, and instagram.