Word: manchurian
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...food carts: the snack of choice continues to be north Indian favorites chaat (a savory, often crunchy snack of various spices and ingredients) or samosa (a pastry), but there is a sizeable queue at a stall selling "Chinese chaat" that comprises, among other things, fried fish and "Manchurian" cauliflower...
...Just down the street, at 38 Guozijian, is the family-run Shengtangxuan, tel: (86-10) 8404 7179. This dusty, cramped store has a small collection of minute, elaborate cloth and paper kites, and Beijing opera masks. But its prime claim to fame is Manchurian clay toys. The Tang family has five generations of toy making behind it, and members still faithfully use the same methods as their Manchu ancestors. Among the collectibles are wobbly headed lions (complete with fluffy manes) and figurines of a rabbit god worshiped in Beijing since the Ming dynasty. The little ones will adore them...
...setup - the old governmental double-cross - don't bother congratulating yourself. We're only halfway through Act 1 of Shooter, the latest movie in the conspiracy-theory genre. Filmmakers have spun some pretty decent political nightmares out of the fear of another Lincoln, McKinley or Kennedy assassination. The Manchurian Candidate, of blessed memory, established the format; The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, JFK, Conspiracy Theory and last year's BBC fake-umentary Death of a President all ran cunning variations on it. Shooter, written by Jonathan Lemkin from Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact...
...mentions Nicholson Baker's 2003 novel Checkpoint as one of many novels about a plan to kill Bush. The novelist Richard Condon never lacked for poli-scifi cojones - in Emperor of America he blew up the White House - but his specialty was death-of-a-president fantasies. In The Manchurian Candidate, published in 1959 and filmed three years later, he postulated the assassination of a presidential nominee by a Joe McCarthy type (the right-wingers did it!) who was controlled by an agent for the Soviet Union (no, the Commies did!). And in the 1974 Winter Kills, also filmed...
Bombay may be India's hippest city, but until recently finding a decent international restaurant outside the top hotels was a challenge. Visitors wanting a change from local cuisine and hotel food resorted to fast-food chains or pseudo-Chinese diners, where the ubiquitous "chicken Manchurian" provided a spectacular example of the perils of fusion cooking. But Bombay is now finally getting the culinary makeover it has long deserved. And what Bombay does, the rest of India follows. Here's our pick of the city's best non-hotel venues...