Archive for January 2008

Swatties abroad

The coffee tastes like engine oil this morning so I am a little bleary eyed as I write this…

Swathmore College Phoenix - While Post missed the “normal kinds of home things,” she found it fairly easy to adjust to the Chinese pace of life, helped by the fact that “Chinese food is amazing and of course, nothing like American Chinese food. I don’t think I’ll ever …

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The dogs almost peeing on my leg. Will post more later.


Shrink’s Progress

Posting has been a real chore recently but I’ve been running iwth this tope for awhile and I came across this…

American Reporter - Pizza or Chinese food delivery was almost the rule. Jennie’s appetite wasn’t great, but stuffing herself seemed to help to feel better, at least for awhile. Her thinking had slowed down somehow. She couldn’t concentrate on anything, mostly …

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Getting cabin fever, must pop out to the local store.


chinese food recalled after poison alert

The phone has been ringing off the hook (as usual) all day. Fed up so just been doing some on-topic research:-

Gulf Daily News - TOKYO: Japanese food companies recalled foods sourced from a factory in China yesterday after dumplings contaminated with pesticide sickened 10 people in the latest safety scare involving Chinese products. Japan Tobacco Inc said its subsidiary, JT …

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Getting cabin fever, must pop out to the local store.


chinese food recalled after poison alert - Gulf Daily News

Just got into the office. Traffic very bad this morning. Heres todays news for you…



PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
chinese food recalled after poison alert
Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - 12 hours ago
TOKYO: Japanese food companies recalled foods sourced from a factory in China yesterday after dumplings contaminated with pesticide sickened 10 people in
China investigates Japanese food poisoning incident Xinhua
China opens probe after food poisonning in Japan Reuters
China investigating insecticide-tainted dumpling in Japan Inquirer.net
Reuters
all 285 news articles

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Signing off for today, see you soon…


Extreme Chinese food from ‘Hong Kong’s elBulli’ - International Herald Tribune

The coffee tastes like engine oil this morning so I am a little bleary eyed as I write this…



International Herald Tribune
Extreme Chinese food from ‘Hong Kong’s elBulli’
International Herald Tribune, France - 17 hours ago
“I hate it when a chef who can make a perfectly good steak turns it into a foam and serves it in a coffee cup,” a friend said recently of the trend known as

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Ok, packing it in for today, see you folks tomorrow.


Back to America’s culinary variety - Christian Science Monitor

The wifes here (again) so got to gou out but here the post I promised:-



Christian Science Monitor
Back to America’s culinary variety
Christian Science Monitor, MA - 18 hours ago
I particularly missed the old standby – Chinese food. Rio has Chinese restaurants, but comida chinesa is a pale imitation of the New York variety,

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The dogs almost peeing on my leg. Will post more later.


Back to America’s culinary variety

Train was let today, sorry about missing some posts but I’ve now caught up:-

Christian Science Monitor - I particularly missed the old standby – Chinese food. Rio has Chinese restaurants, but comida chinesa is a pale imitation of the New York variety, probably because the cooks in Rio’s Chinese restaurants have names like João and Gustavo …

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A trucker’s view of the US economy

Guys you I knew love you all. But I need to eat, so heres today post:-

BBC News - And we find the employees at DuWayne’s first drop-off point tucking into Chinese food. The workers here are either born in China or are American born Chinese, and the warehouse is also full of Latino immigrants. The firm imports from and exports to …

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I was mugged last night, downtown. Foretunately, I only lost my watch. I’ll fill you in on the details later, I’mm really shook up right now :-(


Nibbles: More seafood tests, the obesity lifestyle and recall of … - CalorieLab Calorie Counter News

The weather sucks today. I am so fed up that I’ve only just got around to the blog.



CalorieLab Calorie Counter News
Nibbles: More seafood tests, the obesity lifestyle and recall of
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News, NV - 18 hours ago
After a story in the New York Times found high levels of mercury in the bluefin tuna being sold in sushi restaurants in New York City, the paper is now

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My fingers are burning, can’t type anymore :)


Singapore warms to fiery Indian Chinese cuisine

Just got back from the dentist. Bloody killing me, just researched some posts to take my mind off it…

Reuters India - First cooked up in India’s only Chinatown in Kolkata about 100 years ago, Indianised Chinese food was created by Hakka and Cantonese Chinese immigrants who worked in tanneries on the city’s east side. They added Indian spices such as turmeric, cumin …

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Been posting a lot today, time to do some real work!