comments in italics by Jan, as usual! The small French town we live in boasts, strangely enough, 3 Asian restaurants - not bad for a total population of almost 12 000. I describe these establishments as Asian (as they do themselves), as they serve a hotch-potch of Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Indian food in the form of an all-you-can-eat buffet. We were lunching in one of these places recently and fell to speculating whether similar restaurants existed in Asia where you would dine on say tapas, followed by a plate heaped high with a mixture of sauerkraut, pickled herring and boeuf bourgignon, and finish off with Christmas pudding? (They do!) But where could we eat genuine, authentic cooking from China? Well the answer was pretty obvious... Getting there. Jan looked a bit surprised when I proposed
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