Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #50 – 2015-10-30, 12:34:17 I've tackled more than one pregnant Chinese women. It's not difficult.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #51 – 2015-11-09, 15:59:25 Construction of Nicaraguan Canal to start next year. Chinese firm to start Nicaragua canal project by late 2016
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #52 – 2015-12-18, 23:16:09 Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-12-16, 22:55:29What's going on in China? Anybody else here like Chinese food?Now you can get Chinese (or should I say Chimerican) food in China, in Shanghai anyway. Actually this is an old idea of mine, but these two Americans did it. Why Shanghai's first American Chinese restaurant is taking offQuote from: BBCThe Fortune CookieThe Fortune Cookie is the brainchild of two friends, Fung Lam and Dave Rossi. Fung was born on the doorstep of New York's Chinatown."I was in the playpen of the kitchen of my parents' restaurant, of my grandparents' restaurants," he recalls. "All my earliest memories were of the woks going, my dad coming home with the smell of Chinese food."Fung met Dave at graduate school. Outside of class, they soon discovered a shared love of American Chinese restaurants."Friday night was Chinese food night in the Rossi household," Dave explains. With more than 40,000 American Chinese restaurants in the United States, families of all ethnic backgrounds grew up eating New World Chinese classics.When visiting Shanghai as tourists, Fung and Dave missed their usual versions of noodles and stir-fried classics, and thought others might too.They decided to open what they believe is Shanghai's first American Chinese restaurant, featuring specialties served in Fung's family restaurants for 40 years: orange chicken, kung pao chicken and sesame shrimp. Dave describes the menu as "really American".American yes, though a version of this menu is served in Chinese restaurants around the world - from Madrid to Melbourne.But not usually in mainland China.Dave and Fung flew Fung's father over to Shanghai to teach the chefs how to make each dish, so it is exactly the same as the food served in the family's American restaurants.Extra American effortOne of the biggest challenges was finding the right ingredients to use in the kitchen."As weird as it sounds, we actually import a lot of ingredients to make authentic American Chinese food in China," Fung saysItems like Philadelphia cream cheese, Skippy peanut butter, cornflakes and English mustard powder must all be brought in from outside China. Even the soy sauce must be imported from Hong Kong, because that's what the first Chinese immigrants to the US used in their cooking.Incidentally chicken kung pao/gong bao is a traditional Chinese dish, though maybe not with these ingredients.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #53 – 2016-03-18, 17:23:41 Here's something rjhowie might enjoy https://aeon.co/opinions/the-us-military-is-everywhere-except-history-booksQuoteWar defines the United States. Domestically, it is the country’s greatest budgetary priority: $598 billion, 54 per cent of discretionary spending, in fiscal year 2015. Globally, we have more than 800 bases in some 80 countries, and spend more than the next nine nations combined. Yet academic historians, especially those at the nation’s most richly endowed research universities, largely ignore the history of the US military. This year, historians at the Ivy League schools, plus Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – who collectively offered instruction on hundreds of scintillating subjects from Puritan New England to women in the workforce – provided just six that directly examined the US military.This is a tragedy. Knowledge is power, as Francis Bacon observed. Insofar as we neglect to study our military, we reduce our ability to understand it, and weaken ourselves.[…]
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #54 – 2016-03-19, 02:05:34 So, when Keynes quipped "… Eventually, we're all dead" he didn't mean anything… ?
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #55 – 2016-03-19, 09:24:03 We should have a thread covering the ubiquity of the cell phone."Don't eat that food until you've photographed it!"They're everywhere...in piles!
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #56 – 2016-03-19, 13:26:02 I have a better records of the eating habits of an aquiaintance on WeChat (Chinese Facebook) than of my own.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #57 – 2016-03-19, 16:53:40 I occasionally go to a Chinese restaurant and have European dishes.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #58 – 2016-03-21, 12:40:03 Quote from: rjhowie on 2016-03-19, 16:53:40I occasionally go to a Chinese restaurant and have European dishes.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #59 – 2016-03-23, 03:44:06 Part of my traditional individualism which people I know find fascinating......
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #60 – 2016-03-23, 14:36:02 So do you order Chinese at German a restaurant in your insanity? I think I'll go to El Pollo Loco (literally the Crazy Chicken) and order a burger and then Burger King to Mexican-style chicken, not :p
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #61 – 2016-03-23, 15:58:25 Quote from: midnight raccoon on 2016-03-23, 14:36:02So do you order Chinese at German a restaurant in your insanity? I think I'll go to El Pollo Loco (literally the Crazy Chicken) and order a burger and then Burger King to Mexican-style chicken, not :pI assume it's more like your friends like Chinese you don't want to be a buzzkill, plus they have some "regular" food anyway. Except they don't have any European dishes in any Chinese restaurant I know? I mean, there's stuff like Chinese tomato soup, which is secretly Dutch/Benelux-Chinese so you could say it's European…But really, you can just get a bunch of stir-fried vegetables at any Chinese place.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #62 – 2016-03-23, 17:43:53 Quote from: Frenzie on 2016-03-23, 10:58:25But really, you can just get a bunch of stir-fried vegetables at any Chinese place.Or at the grocery store. Eat'em right out of the bag.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #63 – 2016-03-23, 18:01:46 Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2016-03-23, 17:43:53Or at the grocery store. Eat'em right out of the bag.Errr… que?
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #64 – 2016-03-23, 19:53:11 Chinese at a German restaurant? That is daft as Chinese restaurants do our local dishes smart alex.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #65 – 2016-04-22, 13:55:28 Donald Trump and China: A complex relationshipQuoteIn Henan province, there is a property management consulting firm called Trump Consulting. It has no connection with Mr Trump, but says on its website it is inspired by his property empire.There is also a company in southern China, Shenzhen Trump Industries, that produces smart toilet seats and bathroom fixtures for high-end hotels, and Trump Electronics, a company based in eastern Anhui Province, has been making air purifiers since 1996, according to People's Daily.Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump has more than 14,000 fans on microblogging site Sina Weibo. There is also a Trump Weibo fan page that is dedicated to "everything Trump".QuoteShanghai-based corporate lawyer Wei Li, who spent 10 years living in the US, tells the BBC that Mr Trump "is really speaking for heartland Americans, and he is a rare politician who speaks in plain English".Mr Li says American election politics is "like a theatre" and rational politics will ultimately triumph over rhetoric."Trump's pragmatism, his access to information, his smartness as well as good counsel may translate into good decisions, should he win," he says.Sijia Liu, a veteran radio host and commentator who has millions of daily listeners in Beijing, agrees."Perhaps Trump will be the president who makes politics understandable to ordinary people," Ms Liu says. "In America, even though you are the president, you cannot behave recklessly.""So I wouldn't worry that Trump might become a bad president."QuoteEven among the Chinese diaspora, who might have been put off by Mr Trump's views on race and immigration, there is some admiration."Many people are having a hard time understanding why Trump is so popular, or have the misconception that people who support him are poorly educated, white and angry males," says Wendy Wang.Ms Wang moved to the US from China at the age of 25 and became a naturalised American citizen three years ago. She holds a PhD degree and is a professor at a private California university.Ms Wang says she plans to vote for Mr TrumpMs Wang tells the BBC she will "definitely" vote for Donald Trump as she sees him as "the medicine America needs".I asked what exactly it is about Mr Trump that appeals to her. Her answer: "He's smart, honest, outspoken, and he is also a strongman."She adds: "He is the kid who yells that the emperor has no clothes."
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #66 – 2016-09-27, 17:57:01 China now nearly as infectious for other Asian countries as the US is. Chinese sneezes
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #67 – 2016-12-29, 15:08:14 We have still about a month left of the year of the (fire) monkey before the year of the fire chicken starts.Chinese Year of the Rooster marked with huge Trump sculpture
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #68 – 2017-01-27, 16:44:00 And this is now the year of the chicken. Here from the Chinese New Year fireworks in New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVtiJBXFaaE 1 Likes
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #69 – 2017-01-28, 00:23:51 When Chinese attacks I hope the first to be hanged (or probably sliced alive) will be jax... Rome doesn't pay to traitors... Chinese learns fast.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #70 – 2017-01-29, 00:44:41 Chinese-Americans are becoming politically activeQuoteTHE 2016 election marked a coming-out party for conservative Chinese-Americans, who offered Donald Trump some of his most passionate support among non-whites. Now some are feeling the first twinges of a hangover, as their hero threatens a trade war with China and hints that he might upgrade ties with Taiwan, the island that Chinese leaders call no more than a breakaway province.“My members worshipped Trump religiously for a whole year,” says David Tian Wang, a 33-year-old businessman originally from Beijing, who founded “Chinese Americans for Trump” 1 Likes
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #71 – 2017-09-08, 05:18:01 Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengu seeks US asylum 1 Likes
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #72 – 2017-09-08, 23:21:49 Chinese billionaires should be executed immediately. They are the new modern warfare against Europe and nothing but that.Same goes for the American Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other bimbo billionaires.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #73 – 2017-10-24, 14:10:39 The saga continues. House of Cards writers should be taken in for questioning, under suspicion of espionage. Trump sought dissident's expulsion after hand-delivered letter from China – reportQuoteHowever, two days later, just before leaving the country, the Chinese officials paid a second visit to Guo, triggering a debate within the administration over whether they should be arrested. FBI agents were posted at John F Kennedy airport ready to carry out the arrests before the officials boarded their flight, but they were not made, after the state department argued it could trigger a diplomatic crisis.Guo has filed an application for political asylum in the US, which is pending. But according to the Journal’s account, Trump called for Guo’s deportation in a discussion on policy towards China, describing him as a “criminal” at an Oval Office policy meeting in June, on the basis of a letter from Beijing accusing him of serious crimes.The report said the letter had been hand-delivered to him at a private dinner by Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas casino magnate and Republican National Committee finance chairman with interests in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, for which Wynn relies on Beijing for licensing.The marketing director for Wynn Resorts Ltd, Michael Weaver, told the Journal in a written statement: “[T]hat report regarding Mr Wynn is false. Beyond that, he doesn’t have any comment.”Weaver did not respond to a request for comment from the Guardian on what part of the story was false and whether Wynn had ever delivered a letter from the Chinese government to Trump.The Journal report said that aides tried to persuade Trump out of going ahead with Guo’s deportation, noting he was a member of the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The aides later ensured that the deportation would not go ahead.
Re: The awesomesauce with Chimerica Reply #74 – 2018-01-03, 10:29:16 What Happens When the Richest U.S. Cities Turn to the World? QuoteMs. Sassen argues that a global economy has created new kinds of needs for companies: accountants specializing in Asian tax law, lawyers expert in European Union regulation, marketers who understand Latin America. Global cities must connect to other global cities to tap these resources, which have become more valuable to them than lumber and steel.Inventors in these global cities are also increasingly connecting to one another. Using the addresses of patent co-inventors, Mr. Mudambi has traced a steep rise starting in the early 1990s of global connections from a few American metro areas, which are today among the most prosperous in the country.Many American companies still create physical things, in addition to inventing digital products and ideas. But globalization has changed who benefits from their business, too, enabling firms to separate intellectual work from routine work and scatter those roles across the globe. The knowledge work has tended to stay in the United States. The routine work is what was historically performed in the hinterland. And that in large part is the work that has gone overseas.“The hinterland for Silicon Valley is Shenzhen,” said Timothy Sturgeon, a senior researcher at the M.I.T. Industrial Performance Center.