Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between talks, craft guilds held exhibits, the medieval cooks' guild served meat pie for a quarter, a guild of actors performed, and jugglers, puppeteers and calligraphers demonstrated their talents...
...have your choice of two different pastries to dip in your soup. The fried Chinese cruller is best. It's a foot-long stick of light, airy fried dough, and since it's not sweet, tastes good with either the sweet or plain soups. The other is mandarin pie, a leathery strip of dough with sesame seeds on top. Not as tasty as the cruller...
After your soup, it's possible to order one of everything on the menu and still not go broke. Each pastry is about 40c. The sweet bean pie is an all-time favorite at Shanghai. It's a little, hard round ball with a flaky crust and filled with a creamy, sweet bean paste. By far, the best thing on the menu...
Like the sweet bean pie, the curried ravioli has a hard, flaky crust that peels off in layers. Inside is just a smattering of beef. The ravioli is a little dry, so dip it in the tea that comes free with brunch...
...complex is the sales office and call board, department store, barbershop, lounge and restaurant. The food is steam-table cuisine, but it is cheap and plentiful. A hungry man can heap his tray with chicken-fried steak, creamed potatoes, green beans, corn bread, salad and homemade pie for less than $4.50. One trucker is celebrated for ordering seven scoops of mashed potatoes at 350 a scoop...