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Tiger Tears with Spicy Sauce is an extraordinary dish. Small pieces of beef are tangled with mint, three types of fresh chiles, scallions, lime juice and copious amounts of slivered lemongrass that add a tangy brightness to the meat. Tossed with ground rice (dry-fried until golden, then crushed into small bits), each bite is a study in textures. It’s irresistible and impossible to stop eating. Laap, a special that often appears on the ever-changing specials board, is similar in taste, but here the beef is minced, not sliced, and saw-tooth herb, whose taste resembles...
...hummus and babaganough were well-executed old favorites, but it was the zingy zabadi, a creamy yogurt mixed with mint and cucumber, that had me digging in with a spoon. He then convinced me to try the emam biyaldi, a strange-sounding dish of baked eggplant with raisins, ground beef, pine nuts and a hint of coconut, which turned out to be a sensational blend of flavor and texture. The panfried halloumi, a mozzarella-like goat cheese served on a salad dressed with lemon and olive oil was deliciously simple?and simplicity is a key to Emam's style...
...dinner, Gazza sits at the foreigners' table and eats what's been identified to him as beef curry?even though there's no discernible beef or, for that matter, curry in the dish. The club has two fellow outlanders trying to make it in the Middle Kingdom. One is a lanky Brazilian who speaks no English. The other is a powerful Senegalese whom Gazza introduces as Adam Caesar. His real name, it turns out, is Adama Cisse, but the Senegalese doesn't correct his British teammate. In halting English, he explains to Gazza that his contract hasn't been signed...
...When the pair finally shows up, two hours late and suitably soused, it's like all the energy of his glory days has been jolted back into Gazza. He hugs each man twice and offers up snacks of spicy squid, dried beef and shrimp chips. Jimmy samples the squid, but Dad refuses the food and instead pulls out a half-finished bottle of Famous Grouse whiskey, plus a glass he says he "nicked" from the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. Even though Gazza and his father don't actually talk much?John is as taciturn as Paul is chatty...
...band, the Black Spirits, hit the charts with Africa, an album filled with driving dance beats and heady optimism about the future. For years, Zimbabwe did live up to its revolutionary promise. It was southern Africa's land of milk and honey - and maize and tobacco and beef. But drought and a botched land-reform program have decimated farming. Last week, a government report named prominent members of the ruling ZANU-PF, including Mugabe's sister and top officials, who had broken the "one man, one farm" rule for the redistribution of white-owned commercial farms. Zimbabweans had known this...