re: #334 Guanxi88

Yes, in part, i think it’s the beef. A lot of the chinese I know say they hate summertime, cause westerners smell like cold cooked beef when they sweat.

I’ve noted a similar thing with some lower-class new arrivals from China - there’s this oyster-sauce odor to them when they sweat.

Former Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko said that he and his team would eat fermented fish soup for days before a mission, so that they would smell like Vietnamese while they were creeping around VC emplacements.