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Serve the People
If you like Chinese food and you don’t buy any other book this year, please buy Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Lui. I unreservedly recommend it. (You can purchase it directly through the link above or icon below.)

It’s a book I wish I’d […]

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Dim Sum
Two very good articles detailing the history and basics of dim sum are the About.com article, “Delicious Dim Sum - Chinese Brunch” and the Wikipedia “Dim Sum” entry. In a nutshell, dim sum are little snacks served with tea in the late morning through late lunchtime. Eating dim sum is very much a social […]

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How many times have we discovered, too late, that we had been in the presence of something which at the time it was available we ignored, dismissed, or just didn’t see but, now, we would love to experience, but cannot because circumstances have changed and that thing is no longer at hand? (This goes for […]

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