Dinner
There have been major increases in food prices over the past year, a matter of some concern to the government. Pork prices have been especially had hot, not a problem in the household. This was dinner one night and without the wine the cost was about $3.50. Pea pods with cashews, lotus root with fermented tofu (a bit like blue cheese), cold cuke marinade, "tiger skin peppers", MaPa Dofu (which means "Old pocked-marked woman's tofu)and a rappini like cabbage with garlic and ginger, hen hao (very good).
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 
