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...certainly tax your sanity. You have to select a provider (such as AT&T or Verizon), a make (like Motorola or Nokia) and a plan (weekend minutes or anytime minutes?). Then there are all the bells and whistles. Remember: if the salesclerk asks if you want Java or Brew, he's not offering you a drink but rather a choice between two kinds of software for playing cell-phone games...
...this time, no toga parties. So I was happy to discover the East End Brewery, (852) 2811 1907, where discriminating beer connoisseurs can sample microbrews from around the world, such as California's Anchor Steam, or the tangy Aldrich Bay Pale Ale and the full-bodied Too Soo Brew, both made by the award-winning Hong Kong SAR Brewing Company. Brewpubs like East End and microbreweries like Hong Kong Brewing are expanding around the region, as Asian beer drinkers discover what the rest of the world has already learned: if you're going to get sloshed, do it with taste...
...certainly tax your sanity. You have to select a provider (such as AT&T or Verizon), a make (like Motorola or Nokia) and a plan (weekend minutes or anytime minutes?). Then there are all the bells and whistles. Remember: if the salesclerk asks if you want Java or Brew, he's not offering you a drink but rather a choice between two kinds of software for playing cell-phone games...
...STRANGE BREW "Young sister, you drink ruou?you must have some more," the flush-faced butcher insisted, waving the bottle in my direction. With the glowing benevolence of a newfound friend, he poured the berry red medicinal rice wine into tiny teacups. Someone shouted the ubiquitous toast "Mot tram phan tram" (which means 100%) as we downed the liquor with one gulp and, in my case, with a grimace. Binh and his fellow butchers had been sitting around the tea stall in Cao Bang market for an hour, and we were on our third round of ruou and feeling little...
...Anyone who has traveled Vietnam's back roads knows that villagers love to welcome visitors with a cup or more of ruou, no matter what time of day. Locally brewed by the ethnic minorities in the highlands, there are almost as many kinds of ruou (pronounced zyoo)?as there are hill tribes. Notorious for packing a punch, plain ruou is made from rice and is either clear or red, depending on the brew. More exotic, though, are the ones containing some not-so-secret ingredients: whole pickled cobras, monkey parts or any other animal that will...