• Klnsfw 🏳️‍🌈@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 months ago

    The TikTok trend is roughly as follows:

    • smash a cucumber and cut in chunks
    • add salt, mix and put in the fridge for a while to remove some water from the cucumber
    • rince
    • make a sauce with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, fresh ginger
    • add some topping, like green onions, sesame seed, wakame seeweed, pepper flakes, cilantro, crushed peanuts or whatever you like
    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      smash ? like, slap the wall with it ? I can’t picture what this means (thanks for the recipe)

      • Klnsfw 🏳️‍🌈@lemmynsfw.com
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        4 months ago

        Maybe smash isn’t the right word (I’m not a native English speaker).

        You put the cucumber on a cutting board, lay a large knife flat on it and strike the flat of the blade with the underside of your fist.

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          Maybe smash isn’t the right word (I’m not a native English speaker).

          You had it right. Someone else forgot their ephemeral slang isn’t the only way a word can be used.