Word: gai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST VISIT TO THE RESTROOM, I stare Kong culture dead in the eye. The vomit looks a brown, orange color-like vegetable moo shoo gai pan splattered on the toilet and hanging on the stall walls. The smell cripples me and I feel a spasm contract my stomach. I close my eyes, hold my breath and aim my stream of kidney-processed Budweiser into the puke lagoon. The guy facing the urinal turns his head to caution his buddy entering the restroom, "Watch out, somebody zooped in here!" I've never heard of zooping before, but I sure as hell...
...York police, powerful Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov recently oversaw a special operation, code-named "Foreigner," in which city traffic police zoomed in on foreign-owned cars, levying fines and confiscating license plates. Roughly 1,000 cars were stopped by city traffic cops, known by their Russian acronym GAI (gai-EE), during the two-day operation, which ended Thursday. Famed throughout Moscow for their ability to disperse fines, as well as collect bribes, with lightning speed, the GAI have reported somewhat triumphantly that Americans accounted for the majority of the 200 traffic violations detected. Most foreign drivers are easily recognizable...
...transcend what Menu Man and I have together. I wouldn't want to mar the purity and innocence of our correspondence by subjecting it to the stain of superficiality. Besides, the enigma just adds to the sex appeal. It's not just the virile way He pronounces, "Moo Goo Gai Pan" that makes my stomach do flip-flops, it's the fact that I don't know what the man on the other end of the line looks like. I know now how potent is the attaction of the unknown...
This story, while unfinished, already has a moral: the Japanese need gai- atsu, or outside pressure, almost as much as they resent it. By leaning hard on its friends in Tokyo, the U.S. is doing a favor for Japan as well as Israel. But, then, what else are special relationships...
...pedicabs, for private cars are a rarity in the city. In the busy market area, customers crowd into a tiny but popular cafe that serves white coffee with a whipped raw egg to help ward off the pervasive dampness of the rainy season. Around the corner on Hang Gai Street, shoppers wander past privately owned clothing and novelty shops that are little more than window fronts. Nevertheless, they are the busiest stores in Hanoi. One of them is owned by Dao Thi Huan, 71, a retired government worker. For her, life is much better than it was even five years...