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08-06
Food+Drink (Shenzhen) / Creme de Canton
Written by : Ernest White
Jun 5, 2008
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new books
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| Wolf Totem
Fascinating lupine logic
AUTHOR: Jiang Rong AVAILABLE: Now
Wolf Totem is something very special. Millionsof Chinese have already been enchanted by this book, which is both an exciting tale of a Beijing student transplanted to remote Inner Mongolia and a fascinating anthropological, historical and environmental treatise. And now, the award- winning English translation by Howard Goldblatt is flying off the shelves so quickly that at least one greedy GZ book-shop has been able to charge almost double its 96RMB cover price. The book's phenomenal success is thanks not least to the years its author spent living on the grasslands, and there is a rare directness to his account of the relationships between the nomads and the wolves they simultaneously fear and revere, and between the "sheep-like" Han and the "wolf-like" Mongolians. At points, the development of the book's arguments is a little laboured, but on the whole this polypho ... ... |
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Dare to eat Bird's Nest Soup?
Food+Drink (Shenzhen) / Creme de Canton
Written by : Ethan Zhou
May 7, 2008
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bird's nest
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| Creme de Canton
Dare to eat Bird's Nest Soup?
Yes, you're slurping swift's saliva...
It's often mentioned that Chinese people can eat anything, and especially the Cantonese, who are considered the most ?carnivorous foodies in the entire country. We all know the old joke—they'll eat anything that flies in the sky except a plane, anything that lives in the ocean except a boat, and so on. But bird's nests?
In reality, Bird's Nest is a rather luxurious delicacy from Southeast Asia and widespread (and extremely popular) around the Canton region. As long as something is nutritional or healthy, you can trust the Cantonese to cultivate and create it, even if that means collecting . . . bird's saliva.
Nest history
The Chinese name for Bird's Nest Soup, "yan wo(燕窝)", translates literally as a "swift's nest" (yan = swiftlet, wo = nest). A few species of the rare swift, for instance the cave swift, are renowned for build ... ... |
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