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...manager, Beijing Imperial Motors Club, Ltd. Start at face change, tel: (86-10) 8403 7056. This is a small Chinese barbecue restaurant hidden away in downtown Beijing and famous for its roasted chicken wings. You can order these at different levels of spiciness that range up to "deadly" - although you'd have to be a good sport to try those. In fact, take one bite and you'll see how the restaurant gets its name. After dinner, move over to Vic's Club, tel: (86-10) 6593 6215, by the north gate of Workers' Stadium for drinks and partying...
Hitting up Sunday brunch to try and recover from your hangover is one thing. But stuffing your face full of broccoli and cheese chicken breasts as fast as you can should probably be left to the pros—like chow-down all-star Justin D. Mih. Mih, a Harvard graduate student at the School of Public Health by day, morphs into his alter-ego, super-eater, by night. “I tried to keep it a secret from my parents,” Mih says. “Then I realized parents can Google their kids...
...critical issue of Iran's uranium-enrichment program, Tehran and Washington are now engaged in a game of geopolitical chicken, which favors hard-liners on both sides, making compromise more difficult, escalation more likely and war - by accident, if not by design - a greater possibility than before. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after stepping up defiance of U.S.-led efforts to compel Iran to halt enrichment, this week appeared to gain greater domestic influence over the issue with the replacement of Iran's pragmatic top nuclear negotiator by a key Ahmadinejad ally. After President Bush invoked the specter of World...
...cheesesteak, Chicago has its bratwurst, and, thanks to Vincent DeDomenico, San Francisco has Rice-A-Roni. The sons of Italian immigrants, DeDomenico and his brothers began experimenting with food recipes at their parents' pasta business during the 1930s, mixing ingredients like long-grain white rice, pieces of vermicelli and chicken broth. Eventually they hit the jackpot, creating packaged, easy-to-make rice and pasta dishes. In 1986 they sold their company to Quaker Oats for about $300million. DeDomenico...
...purchase is the price we have to pay for the most responsive and accommodating of all campus institutions. Execution can miss the mark: brain-break offerings don’t put a dent in late-night hunger, and the “ethnic”-ness of endless grilled-chicken riffs is debatable. But HUDS’ efforts to invite—and respond to—student feedback are remarkable: take cage-free eggs and fair trade bananas, for example—and the mere fact that brain break exists. They even wash and replace our mugs in most...