Word: friede
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As the sun sets in Kabul and the wail of the muezzin issuing from loudspeakers mounted on minarets calls the faithful to evening prayer, the fryer at KFC is being fired up for the evening rush. But Kabul Fried Chicken has little in common with the U.S. chain whose initials...
Located in a prewar Chinatown shophouse, the Majestic Bar, www.majesticbar.com, sports a menu that includes black-pepper crocodile puff, perfectly fried oysters accompanied by four sauces, and squid-ink spaghetti tossed in spicy XO sauce - a Cantonese condiment made with dried seafood and chili, but containing none, incidentally, of the...
Luckily, two experiences in the heart of China showed me how rewarding it is to risk an episode of culture shock. At dinner in a small restaurant in the city of Xi'an, which my friends and I found only by deliberating avoiding the shopping mall, we discovered that a...
While I am sometimes thankful for all the conveniences of home whenever I want to eat quickly, part of me feels guilty for failing to take full advantage of my trip to China—even if my version of China is dominated by futuristic Pudong—when my...
After languishing for decades in county fair pie-eating obscurity, the sport rediscovered legitimacy in the mid-1990s when two brothers, George and Richard Shea, took over Nathan's publicity. They increased the hot dog contest's attendance from the hundreds to the thousands, and other restaurants jumped on the...