Word: sours
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...anomaly in Mexico, where the bar for Chinese food is set low. In the handful of eateries that dot Mexico City's two-block Chinatown, it's common to start a meal with deep-fried wonton-dough sticks and a hefty bowl of neon-red sweet-and-sour sauce. "The biggest challenge will be performing as well as in the U.S.," says the new branch's manager, Iván Alvarado. "We have to explain a lot of things to customers at our tables because here in Mexico, we drink soda with Chinese food...
...candy syrup and a generous dose of acid. But Glee is more than a send-up. Like its Fox sibling American Idol, it's equal parts laughing at and thrilling with; if it didn't also genuinely, earnestly love its music and its characters, it would become sour and unwatchable quick. Seeing a football team do a choreographed play to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" may be funny, but it wouldn't be fun unless the routine was truly awesome. It's Glee's ability to inspire both kinds of glee at once - satiric laughs...
...email, Anna Yun, a mental health counselor at South Bay Mental Health Center in Boston with no apparent connection to Harvard, offered to make “pumpkin muffins, sour cream coffee cake, [or] coconut cream pie” (her specialty) for the next faculty meeting. The reason? None, except “that it would make me happy and hopefully make the faculty meeting more...
...fine with the original Trent ("money") and Mike (not "money," no matter what Trent said) moving to the suburbs, having kids, getting fat and spending weekends at Home Depot and Applebee's. These things happen. What's depressing is that there's hardly a creative spark in this sour, offensive, contrived story, and its sloppiness is more consistent than its comedy...
...Piazza del Duomo. It's a fairytale setting for the free classical piano recital held there every night. A few minutes' walk away, next door to La Scala, is my favorite restaurant, Il Marchesino, tel: (39-02) 7209 4338. Try deep-fried sole with tempura vegetables in sweet-and-sour ginger sauce, or have oysters and champagne as a pre-theater snack. Afterward, a ballet at La Scala, tel: (39-02) 7200 3744, is a magical experience. Then I'd walk around Piazza Castello beneath the medieval fortress, Castello Sforzesco. With the fountain sparkling under the illuminated ramparts...