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...remodel." The handmade Vieluxe comes with such features as an integrated smoking system, a table that slides out to reveal two side burners, and what Vieluxe is calling "a concierge"--on call 24 hours a day to answer any questions, including what wine to drink with your char-broiled lobster. Built-in rotisseries and refrigerators are becoming more common, as are dual systems, barbecues that use both gas and charcoal, or even infrared heat. Grease-management devices, to prevent flare-ups and make cleaning easy, are standard...
...make love and make money, and a magnet for people from all over impoverished China, who sneak or bribe their way in. (Two-thirds of the population doesn't have a residency permit.) It's a city of big-time crime, beggar syndicates, drug trafficking, restaurants serving lobster sashimi to mafia-entrepreneurs?and a home to what the Hong Kong government says is a half-million illegitimate children. The population now totals 4 million, and the economy is growing at 31% a year. Call it China's Tiajuana, with a dash of the Jetsons...
Darwin is alive and well in Nish's recipes. On a Thursday evening in the gleaming basement kitchen, a worker dots a carpaccio of lobster that rests on a shiso leaf with dollops of mentaiko, or spicy cod roe, and uni, or sea urchin. "The first time I made that, I thought I'd sell a couple to Japanese customers," Nish says. "Instead, it's become one of my most popular dishes." Another worker shaves thin circles of black truffle to decorate a wedge of hamachi, or yellowtail, sizzling in a pan of duck fat and bacon morsels...
Smigel's clearly on a roll, whether or not the nation is ready for a necrophiliac lobster or a dog that chases its tail endlessly, shouting, "I'll rule you, wagging bastard!" But Smigel's decision to do TV Funhouse for Comedy Central, a network whose antic sensibility dovetails nicely with his own, at least gives the show a fighting chance. "We did Dana Carvey on ABC right after they were bought by Disney," he recalls. "It never had a shot. Now, if I was doing this on NBC, the budget would be a few hundred grand more...
...want the student body to take the council seriously, make sure to wear a Scream mask. Or a lobster suit...