im one of the crazy americans who love ice. i stuff my water bottle with so much ice that it tends to form a solid-ish ice block inside of my bottle, and then i add more ice. when all my ice melts i get very sad :( the water just doesnt taste as good
i think this habit of drinking warm water is bc i'm asian (idk if other bipoc ppl do this too or if it's primarily an asian (specifically chinese?) thing). i was thinking about this when i went to eat at din tai fung a few weeks ago lol but the one major tell that it's catered towards westerners and non-mainland chinese ppl is that their entire drink menu only had iced drinks! even the teas that they were offering were iced lol which would never happen at any of the other chinese restaurants here, whether big or small. i was with my mom at the time and she ordered a lemon tea drink and she was fully expecting it to be a hot tea only for it to be full of ice haha π₯²
also, on a different tangent: my friend used to be obsessed with, and therefore send me, those asmr videos/reels where ppl (usually it's a girl who makes clean girl living content lol) would be making all these different types of ice and then they would stack and store them in clear containers. even tho it's wild to me that ppl can make money off of doing this kind of thing, ngl there's something about that specific type of restocking/organizational asmr content that's oddly satisfying to watch and scratches a specific brain itch.
