Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

So what type of food are they cooking ?

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

got to be spicy and lots of garlic, garlic pongs the place out if you use as much as I think the neighbours do. am I right or wrong:unsure:

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Get a bucket put some poo ,wee and some sick in it mix it up then pour it outside there door,It won't get rid of it but it will tone it down a bit.

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Well, so far I've been able to identify ("approximate" would be a better word):

a) fried meat (pork?), with the frying process going on for two hours or more;
b) something that smells very pungently ("manure" + unidentified spices).

Of course, on top of those two base dishes there are several others I'm not able to define (let alone identify).

Oh, and my intervention seems to have done more harm than good: they've started cooking their dinner around 11:00pm, when I usually tend to get the sweet embrace of falling asleep. Take that, dolce vita! (BTW, it's 10:45 pm as I write this - guess what made my sleep go away...)

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Maybe they're using manure as a cooking fuel?

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Or Chelski!

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

It's one of the hazards of having neighbours, close neighbours.

Buy air fresheners, and febreze and charcoal filters.

After a while the brain, the olfactory lobes, stops noticing smells so you should get used to it.

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

What she said^^^ and start looking for a new place.;)

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Where are they from? It might give you a clue to the food smells. I had a neighbour once who regularly cooked goat. I had to go out when they did, it was vile. That process went on for hours too.

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Already did... And, well, the brain stops registering smells after a while, true, but "things" (clothes, especially) have a much more persistent memory and the yuck factor will be there the next day. Bummer...

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

"China" - they are speaking Mandarin.

Edit: "China", meaning it could be Mainland China, Taiwan, etc. My linguistic skills do not allow me to further pinpoint their origin - but I'm sure it's not Cantonese, Korean, Japanese or anything that might "look Chinese" to "us people" :-)

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

They could possibly be using fermented bamboo shoots in their cooking - it has a rather potent fragrance!

Re: Advice needed: neighbour is a pest, what to do?
 

Yes, I understand that. I know someone who moved because their upstiars neighbour was a smoker and the stench got into her flat. She swears she still has things that have a lingering tobacco smell.