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Hangzhou sesame speciality

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October 17th 2011
I'm not really sure what I was trying to prove when buying these - they weren't exactly the most appetizing looking things on the shelf. However, I can't really write a blog about m&ms so here we are: black sesame "things". Now, from the pic on the box it looked to me like some sort of sesame flavoured chewy toffee. Nope. They're actually incredibly soft, so much so that they' ... read more

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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