Word: chopstick
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...company's chopstick-optional culinary formula, combined with an upscale ambiance and prime locations, has resonated well with customers and investors since the company went public in 1998. There are now 194 bistros in 39 U.S. states, along with 164 outlets of its more casual line of restaurants, Pei Wei Asian Diner, which launched in 2000. But as with many restaurant chains, the recession slowed the pace of expansion after consumers started ordering cheaper dishes and cooking for themselves at home. The stock fell to an eight-year low of $15 in November 2008 (it has since rebounded to roughly...
...multidisciplinary feast for the senses. Since it has roots in the Zen tea ceremony, kaiseki encompasses literature, ceramics, ikebana, painting and the art of dinner conversation. It requires some cultural literacy, not to mention deep pockets. It also requires sitting on the floor for hours and decent chopstick skills...
Exhaling smoke with a particular world-weariness only a beautiful woman can conjure, Xu Jinglei announces she's tired of Oriental mystique, all the brocade and bamboo and aerial kung-fu artistry. That's ironic, given that the movie director, 31, with her chopstick physique and brushstroke features, would fit quite nicely into an epic about a woman named, say, Plum Blossom...
Doctors at a government hospital in the northern city of Ipoh in Malaysia recently treated a man for an eye infection and, in the process, discovered part of a chopstick embedded in his face, the result of an assault five years...
...just going to keep asking me, aren't you?'" she recalls. "It's not like I was asking. It's more like it was an order." Anyone who tried to give a Kitano character an order in one of his movies would probably get a chopstick in the eye. But despite his initial reservations?including concerns over the rights to Zatoichi?Kitano was intrigued. The box office potential of an action flick could not have hurt, either; Kitano has never directed a major commercial hit. Once Saito had fully secured the film rights and agreed to give Kitano's production...