Believe it or not - 7+ years ago or so it was always just talking and maybe a quick problem to make sure you weren't a fraud.

I hate GrubHub. Most any food that holds up well with take-out (pizza, Chinese) has already been done for a long time. GrubHub delivers mediocre sloppy food, by places that don't know how to keep it fresh while it sits around waiting for the delivery guy, then sit in his car while he wanders the neighborhood. It's the dumbing down of food.

And it's ruining all my favorite local casual dining places. It may look empty but no, you're behind 20 grubhub orders. Same **** at Starbucks.

The one place I'm thinking of has possibly the best rotisserie chicken I've ever had. I've watched them pull it off, box it up for me, and taken it home in a 5-10 minute drive. It's not the same. It's gotta be piping hot and crispy right off the rack or whatever they call it. I stopped getting it to pick up and just eat it there. As I eat, I see these GrubHub orders sitting there wilting for 20-30 minutes.

/gears grinded

Def don't think Chinese holds up well. Depends what you get. Indian does well other than the naan.

Everything I've ever gotten from take-out Chinese holds up great imo: kung-pao chicken, pork-fried rice, mu-shu pork, spring rolls, hot & sour soup, crab/cream cheese wontons (called crab rangoon in the midwest). What doesn't hold up well?

Indian is good too. It loses a little but no more than pizza or chinese imo.

Thai holds up pretty well too.

All the stir-frys do fine. Coping badly are salt and pepper squid, anything crispy (ie crispy skin duck, crispy beef dishes), Peking green beans, dumplings to name a few.

What is considered standard Chinese is different here. Crab rangoon doesn't exist. I have also never heard of mu-shu pork.

Yeah the Chinese are largely lactose intolerant. But in the US we generally have available a fried wonton stuffed with cream cheese and artificial crab flavoring - which goes by various names. It's quite tasty.

Mushu pork is like Peking duck, but with pork. It comes with plum sauce and potato pancakes. The pork is stringy with cabbage and other stuff. Delicious just by itself - but incredible with plum sauce in a potato pancake taco or burrito.

The rest of your AUS dishes are not something I've experienced.

Grubhub is just an all-in-one platform in Boston. Website/payment/sms tracking. Its delivered by the same delivery people if you call in directly. Doordash here is what you are describing and sucks.

*fistbump*

You've never had salt and pepper squid? It's a super popular pan-Asian dish here, gets served in Chinese places, Vietnamese, sometimes even Thai, it's also a pub staple, it's ubiquitous. It would be my guess at the most frequently eaten Asian dish in the country. I never realized until now the extent to which it's an Australian thing.

Squid is actually pretty uncommon in the US in general, outside of calamari. Is salt and pepper squid fried, stir fried or what?

Nope, never even heard of it. Same for peking green beans and that other stuff you mentioned.

I'd guess our most popular Chinese takeout main dishes are something like:
sweet & sour chicken/pork
Kung pao chicken
Mongolian beef
orange chicken (this is kinda new - popularized by PF Changs and Panda Express)
pork/chicken fried rice
szechuan beef or other
chow mein

Here's the take out place by me:
https://menupages.com/china-coast/15...o-beach/#about

Nary a squid dish. Fancier Chinese places will probably have it.

Here's PF Changs, no squid either: https://order.pfchangs.com/menu/9813

Here's a fancy place, still no squid: https://www.yelp.com/menu/meizhou-do...nt-los-angeles

My favorite Australian food was Nandos and meat pies.

There are plenty of US Chinese restaurants that have salt n pepper squid. It's not usually on the menu of the Americanized Chinese places.

Lol nice job Chris - #2 on the list.

https://www.yelp.com/search?find_des...+Angeles%2C+CA

Lol the only place near me on this list is Seafood Port - one of those ghetto-looking funny-smelling (assuming) Asian seafood places.

Anyone using Gitlab and recommend it for hobby/side project apps?

Yeah I liked gitlab CI a lot. You can use your own pre-built docker images for the build server if you want. Perfect for hobby-sized stuff.

We went with github because it integrates better with AWS and it has a concept of an organization that doesn't feel hacked on at the last minute.

Although it still boggles my mind that github has no concept of folders for repos.

All except bolded are common here, although kung pao isn't as ubiquitous as in the US and "mongolian" is most commonly made with lamb. Orange chicken isn't a thing, but lemon chicken used to be common back when Chinese food was just getting established here (around 40 years ago). It's the provenance of senior citizens and awful suburban Chinese takeout joints now. Sweet and sour is a bit similar actually in that it's regarded as what bogans order when they order Chinese food, a bit low class and passe. It's a little silly because, like the US, half the things regarded as "real Chinese" are heavily Westernized versions anyway.

afaik github just opened up private repos for free users

Use it at work but for the type of work I am doing my comments may not be that relevant. I found the documentation for setting up Windows CI runners for building C++ apps with Visual Studio to be pretty good. The documentation on putting together a .gitlab-CI.yml file to be pretty good too. There’s a learning curve but it isn’t too step. The UI for things like merge requests and such in managing repos is straight forward. Nice tool for automating builds and tests.

I think they have free CI, but I am really not sure to what extent that works. Heard it was written in Go though!

Private repo + CI seems to be an annoying combo that leads me to stupid circle ci too often. Plus I would really like all my things in one tool rather than 10 diff ones I have to manage yml files for

Lol at how bad just a single quote or parens can mess things up. Anyone watch this show?

print('hello, world') is a good description for Part 1: S1 E1.

Is it just me being anal or is this ok for json?

I hate that entries is an object instead of an array. Some inconsistent capitalization didn't bother me too much.

Not crazy about it but whatever