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Full bellied and Soggy in Western China

May 23rd 2007
So our culinary sagas continue and our Chinese remains ambiguous to say the least. On occasion we've had to go into the kitchen with the chef and point to the ingredients we'd like prepared. Faced with baskets of vegetables and an array of spices this is actually quite fun dreaming up some crazy stir fried vege combination. Sometimes we take the phrasebook and point to dishes we might like ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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