Panula Za Quotes

Every few months or so at home, Pops had to have Taiwanese 'Mian. Not the Dan-Dan Mian you get at Szechuan restaurants or in Fuchsia Dunlop's book, but Taiwanese Dan-Dan. The trademark of ours is the use of clear pork bone stock, sesame paste, and crushed peanuts on top. You can add chili oil if you want, but I take it clean because when done right, you taste the essence of pork and the bitterness of sesame paste; the texture is somewhere between soup and ragout. Creamy, smooth, and still soupy. A little za cai (pickled radish) on top, chopped scallions, and you're done. I realized that day, it's the simple things in life. It's not about a twelve-course tasting of unfamiliar ingredients or mass-produced water-added rib-chicken genetically modified monstrosity of meat that makes me feel alive. It's getting a bowl of food that doesn't have an agenda. The ingredients are the ingredients because they work and nothing more. These noodles were transcendent not because he used the best produce or protein or because it was locally sourced, but because he worked his dish. You can't buy a championship.
Did this old man invent Dan-Dan Mian? No. But did he perfect it with techniques and standards never before seen? Absolutely. He took a dish people were making in homes, made it better than anyone else, put it on front street, and established a standard. That's professional cooking. To take something that already speaks to us, do it at the highest level, and force everyone else to st ~ Eddie Huang

If you say something as if it were, that isn't, is it considered a lie, or speaking it into existence? ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

Paint me perfect poetry. ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm. ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

You know what would be awesome? ... If I could have a machete. ~ Molly Looby

I hate looking at you sometimes. Looking into the eyes of a woman that holds so many secrets, so much pain, so many regrets. On the surface, you seem so normal - as if life has been kind to you. But your eyes - your eyes reveal a different story. Your eyes reveal... ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

For every nine people who denounce innovation only one will encourage it...For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way. For every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door. Our progress as a species rests squarely on the shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are satisfied with things they are told valuable. Person 10 determines from himself what has value. ~ Za Rinpoche

Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works. ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn't impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose. ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

Nothing, is what it appears to be, when it's only with your eyes you see. ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

unheard and unseen
{ protected }

from the vision of what
we would look cute together
really means

words
do
{ lie }

amongst the
lol's and just kiddings

{ hearts }

lay awake
dreaming nightmares of
unicorns
disguised
as

demons
chase away

{ hope }
causing it
to remain ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

See that little black thing sticking up?" Gurgeh looked. There was a little black bulb poking up through the surface of the red mud. "Yes." "That's his dick." Gurgeh looked suspiciously at the other man. "How exactly is that going to help him?" "The Uhnyrchal can breathe through their dicks," Za said. "That guy's fine; he'll be fighting in another club tomorrow night; maybe even later this evening. ~ Iain M. Banks

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry. ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

If you knew how your day would end, would you still begin it? ~ N’ Zuri Za Austin

Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
Between my fingertips
As I squeeze perfect drops of love into small receptacles to be preserved...

For later.

☕️ ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'. ~ Jonathan Margolis

Once upon a time,
is how stories begin... ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

Module," Za said, sprawling out over the seat and looking thoughtful, "I'd like a double standard measure of staol and chilled Shungusteriaung warp-wing liver wine bottoming a mouth of white Eflyre-Spin cruchen-spirit in a slush of medium cascalo, topped with roasted weirdberries and served in a number three strength Tipprawlic osmosis-bowl, or your best approximation thereof. ~ Iain M. Banks

Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me?

[ i do…] ~ N'Zuri Za Austin

Zombies don't exist. ~ Molly Looby

He IS just a normal boy. ~ Molly Looby

Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen. ~ Huineng

Lean forward a little, my lord," Toot said instantly, and shouted, "Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back!"
I fought not to smile. "No, that's a metaphor," I said.
Toot frowned and scratched his head. "I don't know what it's for. ~ Jim Butcher