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Wang's plan to leap into the U.S. was simple: buy a small, listed American firm and move his own operations into its corporate shell. He has used such "backdoor listings" at home by buying a mango packer, shifting part of his meter business to it and renaming it Holley Science and Technology. For his U.S. debut, he chose a struggling, NASDAQ-listed California firm called American Champion Entertainment. Its main asset was a kids' TV show, Adventures with Kanga Roddy, about a karate-kicking marsupial. Wang paid $5 million in early 2001 for a controlling interest. Two months later...
...sorbet trio was a duo at Metropolis ($7) and once again, this gold standard of the remaining desserts had just a little something extra that made it wonderful. A grape sorbet was sweet and tart and berryish, and three buttery, slightly salty cookies complimented both the grape and the mango sorbets nicely. The sorbet was not so refreshing as to leave one unsatisfied and the cookies made the dessert luxurious without being orgiastically decadent. This is more than can be said for the chocolate pudding cake ($8), which seemed to have been divinely inspired. Served soufflé-style, this chocolate...
...person sufficiently to go out on a second date. You can tell that in an hour,” Dolan says. After lunch, the possibility of a future meeting is up to the couple on the date. They can exchange numbers if the conversation was as spicy as the mango shrimp curry or jet back to work for “an important meeting” if the best part of the date was when the check came...
...when my dinner companion chooses the blackened mackerel, Lord refuses to give it to him. "You'll be much happier with the soft-shell crab," he says as he walks away with the menus. Grudgingly, my tablemate later concurs that the soft-shell crabs with green papaya and mango were like nothing he'd ever tasted...
...Manor, an 18-room boutique hotel set in a secluded southern garden in Friend's Colony. The owners have combined modish veneer, glass and low lighting with traditional Indian textiles and a hint of colonial style to produce India's first designer hotel. The menu alone, featuring exotic smoothies, mango salads and even lobster, is worth a stay. For reservations, call...