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...mostly thick and custardy; it melts in your mouth and sits in a bath of broth. We had the sweet variety, although you can order it salted as well. Another of Shanghai's sweet soups is the sesame rice ball. This is a very sweet broth containing one-inch dough balls filled with sesame seeds. They have the consistency of bubble gum and could choke even the most flexible esophagus. Keep away! If you don't like sweet things, be careful. Shanghai really sugars their stuff...
...have your choice of two different pastries to dip in your soup. The fried Chinese cruller is best. It's a foot-long stick of light, airy fried dough, and since it's not sweet, tastes good with either the sweet or plain soups. The other is mandarin pie, a leathery strip of dough with sesame seeds on top. Not as tasty as the cruller...
Another favorite is the steamed bun with pork and vegetables. These are fat, doughy rolls which have been steamed, giving the dough a fluffy, light quality. Inside are chopped up bits of pork and vegetables. However, you can order them with just plain pork (no vegetables) or the same sweet bean filling mentioned above...
This year is officially (according to United Nations decree) the International Year of the Child (IYC). The only visible American commemoration so far this year has been typically mercenary: the Postal Service last month issued a stamp to honor the event (and to rake in loads of dough from stamp collectors). Last year Dr. Peter Bourne (remember him?) was temporarily in charge of the U.S. national commission to coordinate IYC activities in this country...
...administrators of many stations spend most of their time passing the hat, and controversial programming is often shelved for fear of offending donors. Says Jay Iselin, president of New York's WNET (Channel 13): "It's humiliating to spend most of your time getting up the dough rather than becoming involved in programming...