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Diners will leave the red house happy, but they are less likely to remember the chow than the charm. Those seeking the standard meet-and-greet or the late-night bar scene might want to head a bit further down on JFK Street, and others looking for bona-fide cuisine might want to head over to the North End. But those in search of old-fashioned ambiance and an eclectic menu should stay put. the red house is not red-hot…but definitely warm and cozy...
...books of his Chinese poetry published and his paintings are regularly sold to collectors throughout Asia. "Tan Swie Hian is Singapore's most prolific artist in terms of the range of media he works in?from literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, performance to design," says Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Museum. Tan recently showcased the diversity of his talents in Instant Is a Millennium, the opening gala performance of the recent Singapore Arts Festival. The project took Tan two years to develop, during which he directed musicians, set designers, seamstresses and interpreters. During the show, a montage...
...SIGNED. STEPHEN CHOW, 40, Hong Kong's king of comedy; a deal with Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures to co-produce a movie set in China; in Los Angeles. Tentatively titled Kung Fu Hustle, the film is scripted by Chow, who will also play the lead and direct. Chow's 2001 Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong's biggest box-office hit ever, is scheduled to be released in the U.S. in August by Miramax...
...deepest, darkest sexual desires. In Truth or Dare she brings similar realism and sympathy to the tale of a coed group of six twentysomething Hong Kong roommates. They are caricatures who nonetheless ring true: the wild girl (Candy Lo), the dreamy girl (the dreamy Karena Lam), the dork (Roy Chow) who loves the dreamy girl. Too broke to go out, they stay in and play Truth or Dare (though without the tequila I remember being a key part of the game). One night they take a collective dare to achieve a dream in a year's time. Wong follows them...
...Today, even neophyte diners know not to chow on pangolin in the summer, as its flesh reputedly warms the blood. Toad, however, is regarded as a perfect June-August nosh, because each bite is believed to cool the body, like a gastronomic air-conditioner. Deer tendons braised with turnip are supposed to enhance a woman's beauty; barking deer is said to cure hangovers, and a sizeable wild deer's penis reputedly does wonders for the underwhelming man. But the most fashionable?and expensive?morsel today is a strip of giant-salamander skin, the reddish tinge of which exactly matches...