Word: chai
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Other letters range from gripes about Jar Jar Binks to complaints about commercialization. A pediatrician recently wrote an open letter on Salon.com taking issue with Lucas's newest fast food tie-ins, an Indy Whopper and a Snickers Adventure bar with coconut and chai. "Wouldn't Indy, now a senior citizen, have more than just a little bump in his cholesterol if he had scarfed down his namesake burger?" the doctor asks. "How could he be fit enough to chase down ancient relics while dodging boulders and outwitting Nazis...
...rows with deliciously rebellious flavor combinations. Those leaning toward adult tastes might want to sample the mojito cupcake. Topped with mint leaves and soaked with rum, this cupcake will leave any taster lovedrunk for the childishly adult snack.At the opposite end of the spectrum is the classically sweet cinnamon chai Pecan Sticky, which still offers a wonderfully complex eating experience. A more mature chai flavor provides a counterpoint to the childishly tactile delight of dipping one’s tongue into the sugary syrup that tops the cupcake. One bite of the simple-yet-refined chocolate and vanilla cupcakes will...
What he'd rather be doing, and what he was in fact doing a few hours before we met for an iced chai in the Valley, is meeting with folks like Francis Ford Coppola about a role. Coppola asked Efron, who is a musical savant, to try to stump him with obscure show songs. Coppola missed only one, from Avenue Q, but he belted the rest right at Efron. "Believe it or not, he's got a pretty rich baritone. It's kind of great. I must be one of the few people he sang...
...many of those campaigning to save the Pier, it is a symbol of something lost. "The British took away a lot of from us, but they knew how to leave space for people," says Mary Ann King, a district counselor for the neighborhood of Wan Chai. "You'd think to yourself, at least I have freedom, if I don't have democracy...
...More likely, Chai's book suffers from a surfeit of coming-of-age memoirs by Asian Americans, as well as a blessed obsolescence: China's diaspora has largely fared well in the U.S. since Chai was a girl. Her father even tells her, "There's no such thing as racism against Chinese. You just don't know how to get along with people...