Zha jiang mian

Din Tai Fung

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July 28th 2009
Next to our school there is a restaurant called Din Tai Fung, part of a Taiwan-based restaurant chain that has locations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland, the states, and Canada. Evidently it was ranked as one of the top ten restaurants in THE WORLD by the New York Times at some point. It was definitely a touch classier than our normal lunch place -- lots of businessmen being dropped off for lunch ... read more

Asia » China » Tianjin

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more