Category: Food and Drink
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This picture is making me hungry right now. Taken at Li Qun's Peking Duck restaurant in Beijing.
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Yesterday a friend took us out to lunch at a local Chinese restaurant. I think it was probably only the second time we've eaten Chinese in the whole 3 months we've been home. The place we went to was actually an authentic Chinese restaurant called Sichuan 99. I know it was authentic for a few…
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Some people are ashamed to beg. Under the right circumstances, using pretty strict parameters, I am NOT one of those people. My number one criteria for determining when it is (or is not) appropriate to beg: Is coffee at stake? If the answer to that all-important question is YES (or MAYBE), then I feel that…
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Imagine you have ordered a delicious plate of large, fresh, tasty, greasy, home-style French Fries (or "chips" if you live on certain other islands.) You’re ordering from Xining, by the way, so you’re already feeling very delighted to be able to order such western luxuries… Then imagine that your order comes out looking something like…
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Last night I was craving oatmeal. So I searched the cabinets and found a bag of Chinese brand (Sea Mild) instant oatmeal. Only one problem: the instructions on the back of the package were in Hanzi (汉字) a.k.a Chinese characters. I couldn’t make out some of the important instructions…but seriously how hard can it be? …
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Having worked in a coffee shop in a past life, I remember getting a lot of questions about what has the most caffeine. The assumption was that espresso has more caffeine than drip coffee and drip coffee has more caffeine than tea. Wrong. Many people (who are into this sort of thing) will also spend…
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Do you have any favorite foods that you would call inexplicable? It’s a strange question. Let me rephrase: Sometimes in life you get used to eating certain things–a certain brand of peanut-butter, a certain type of cereal, or even a typical recipe your mother used to make. After an extended period of time of eating…
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So this guy just set the American hot-dog eating record. He ate 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. This 22 year old holds other records in "quickly" eating pork ribs, waffles, and jalapeno poppers, but he still doesn’t hold the world record for hot dogs. That record is 53 1/2 and was set…
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…what this might be? It took me four months to find out. (I wasn’t trying too hard; lazily, I was trying to figure out by sight alone.) p.s. if I already told you, please don’t ruin it for the other participants!
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You thought I was joking about starting my own Xining pizza chain aptly called Baba Zhang’s (Chinese equivalent to Papa Johns). Well, if you had your doubts, here’s some instructional photos–a graphic procedure if you will–which I am working on to include in my employee handbook. These are the first prototype Baba Zhang minis that…
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