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...other side of the aisle, German tourist Werner Meier also eyes the wide array of chocolates. The fact that his country is facing its biggest economic crisis since World War II doesn't deter the retired engineer from buying eight bunnies - at $4.50 a pop - and 20 milk chocolate hazelnut bars for his family back in Hamburg. "We may not be able to buy luxuries any more, but we can still splurge on small pleasures like chocolate," he laughs. (See pictures of things money cant...
Already the world's largest producer of milk, India will have to yank up production from the current 100 million metric tons to 180 million metric tons by 2021-22 to keep pace with growing population and expanding disposable incomes. Livestock such as cows, buffalo, goats, sheep, horses and mules are indispensable to India's rural economy - whether the animals are yoked to plow land, raised for milk and manure or harnessed to pull carts to move goods and people. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that livestock contribute 5.3% to total GDP, up from 4.8% during 1980-81. But, says...
EUROPEAN UNION Reinstated subsidy payments for exports of dairy products like butter and milk powder...
...Like laksa - a coconut-milk-and-prawn-laden broth thickened by the spices of China, Malaysia and India - Peranakan culture has been simmering since the Chinese began migrating to the Straits in the early 16th century. Originally small-time traders under the Portuguese colonialists of Malacca, the Chinese Peranakans subsequently parlayed their mastery of Malay and English to become compradore merchants under British rule, spawning a prosperous Anglophile and anglophone class that aspired to attend Oxford and Cambridge but which, at the same time, spoke among itself in Baba Malay. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...crayfish, deep-fried and topped with a cloyingly sweet, caramelized peppercorn sauce. Served with rice, it ought to be accompanied by Chinese water spinach, cooked in a chili-infused shrimp paste known as belachan. For dessert, go for the sago gula melaka, a mixture of boiled sago, warm coconut milk, palm sugar and shaved ice. The cost of an average dinner for two (without alcohol) is around $50, a modest tariff for food that is invariably sedap. That's Baba Malay for "delicious," and a word that will hopefully live for a long time...