IC Inbox: Empatheias

[young_oldman]

[Your birds might get a little plump on bird seeds. Just saying.]

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[young_oldman]

Ah, I see what you mean now.

[Lu Meng watches Red pouring out the flour onto the bowl, eyes on the scales as well.]

I'm not much of a desserts person, but if I had to name a personal favorite, it's tangyuan. If I'm feeling particularly peckish for sweets, then I have it with red bean soup. But I'm not very fond of sweet foods in general.

[gottacatch]

[ Where were the mixing bowls? Time to get one to put this flour into, digging into a cupboard and bringing one to tip the flour into. The scales then get pushed back, Red taking the bowl for them over to the sink as he talks. ]

I've never heard of tangyuan--but we have a red bean soup as a dessert where I'm from. The beans are crushed up and served with rice cake in the winter. Is it similar?

[young_oldman]

[Lu Meng's eyebrows arch up.] Actually, yes. We eat tangyuan with small glutinous rice balls, normally stuffed with some sort of filling. The filling varies but black sesame seed or peanuts are popular choices. Here, let me show you through the crystals.

[And to give Red a visual of what he's talking about, Lu Meng projects the image through their amulets.

[gottacatch]

[ And a second after seeing that image, Red hums with a nod. ]

That looks close to what I'm talking about too. There wasn't anything inside the rice cakes, but they were shaped like balls too. Huh...

[ That's odd. ]