Putting the Hack in Hakka Noodles / Shaxian Can’t be Fucked with

a Chaoyang Trap zine

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This zine contains two stories and can be read both ways:

• Putting the Hack in Hakka Noodles is about diasporic cooking with radical ingredient substitution as adaptive tactics
• Shaxian Can’t be Fucked with is about the ubiquitous yet mysterious restaurant chain Shaxian Delicacies

Both stories were originally published in Chaoyang Trap, a newsletter about internet culture in China: S02 Episode 6: Hot Dry Noodle Takes

The zine comes with a bonus recipe insert that’s previously not included in the newsletter. It’s a collection of recipes for ingredient substitution cooking.

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self-printing instructions

Both files are exported for printing on A4 paper

The zine is a 16-page A5 booklet

The recipe insert is an 8-page folding zine. Guide on how to fold