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...have some more," the flush-faced butcher insisted, waving the bottle in my direction. With the glowing benevolence of a newfound friend, he poured the berry red medicinal rice wine into tiny teacups. Someone shouted the ubiquitous toast "Mot tram phan tram" (which means 100%) as we downed the liquor with one gulp and, in my case, with a grimace. Binh and his fellow butchers had been sitting around the tea stall in Cao Bang market for an hour, and we were on our third round of ruou and feeling little pain. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, except...
Longer lines and their accompanying political football will surface widely next year as officials cut hours at or close libraries, social-services agencies and state administrative offices. In Virginia, Warner moved the opening time at state-run liquor stores to 11 a.m. from 10 a.m. After nine caseworkers were cut from the welfare office in Holyoke, Mass., cases became so backlogged that employees posted a sign asking visitors to BE PATIENT: YOU MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE YOUR WORKER...
...style that would later culminate in the Taj Mahal. More importantly, it is also home to the Lodi Garden Restaurant, a delightful upmarket establishment that distinguishes itself by combining in one place all four rarities of the New Delhi dining scene: outdoor tables, palatable Continental food, a liquor license and (holy cow!) steak. At $25-$50 a head for a meal with wine, prices are monstrous by Indian standards. But there can be few better evenings in the city than one that starts with a stroll through the gardens, past lily ponds and cricket games, and finishes with chicken liver...
There are many varieties of the Sake Martini, and while the recipe above calls for equal proportions, many choose to either emphasize the sake or the hard liquor, or to sample different brands of sake. The Japanese have brewing down to a fine art and pride themselves on the variety of tastes...
...powerful lobbying groups, which are now among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's biggest contributors. Many Diet members, in fact, are known by which zoku (tribe) they are members of: construction, agriculture or health care. Change is coming in dribs and drabs, but usually only after a prolonged fight. Liquor licenses will be fully deregulated next September, and telecommunications opened up a few years ago to a fair degree of success. "There is movement," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist for JP Morgan in Tokyo, "but it is too little, too slow...