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...websites are crammed with kanten recipes, and one of the country's leading kanten manufacturers, Ina Shokuhin, has been struggling to meet demand. Visitors curious to try kanten's benefits for themselves can drop in at the Kanten Papa Caf?, tel: (81 3) 5358 8807, a kanten-based diner that Ina Shokuhin opened in Tokyo's trendy Shinjuku district last year. "Kanten gives the illusion you've had a filling meal, and it has staying power," adds Marcus. Only time will tell if the fad has staying power...
...this sweet machine revs up Harvard’s students. This fall, the Eliot Grille, a student-run snack bar in Eliot House, is getting a neat new facelift. Proposed changes would transform its previous, drab decor into something that resembles a ’50s diner. Nondescript walls will now be washed in bright red and blue. And the House is buying ’50s-style furniture to complement the new paint job. This furniture would add to the Grille’s existing collection of retro furniture. Movie posters on the walls and records hanging from...
...It’s difficult to staff and run a business at those late hours. But, we feel it’s worthwhile and we’re certainly willing to make the commitment to maintain those hours if given permission.” The opening of the diner Flat Patties, the newest venture from the owners of Felipe’s, is scheduled for later this month. “Whether we get the license or not,” Brush said, “we’re going to have a good business here either...
...wannabe entrepreneurs the secrets of accounting or international law. Instead, Professor Li Zhiguo instructs his 1,600 students on a graver subject: manners. A line, he lectures, should be an orderly procession, not a rowdy scrum. Spitting on the street is not nice. When eating a Western meal, the diner should cut meat into small pieces with a fork and knife, although that should never be done to bread. And remember: if hosting Americans at a restaurant, don't order endangered species or internal organs. "We think they are delicacies, but Americans think they are disgusting," he says, as students...
...stealing from his boss, who has ties to organized crime. Eventually Nick crosses paths with Caprice, who works as a waitress and struggles with a self-destructive streak that always seems to lead her to the wrong guys. Meanwhile Phoebe, a teenager from the sticks, arrives at the diner where Caprice works in order to find the owner, her father who left her 15 years earlier. Lastly, and most memorably we have Steve, a creepy weirdo. While displaying an obsessive interest in pop music, particularly the work of Ray Beam, Steve slowly descends further and further into isolated madness...