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...House does indeed serve tea—in abundance. The space that the GBBCC occupies was formerly a restaurant, and the skeleton of a bar behind the bookstore is now used as a tea stall, storing large plastic containers brimming with exotic varieties of tea: jasmine, fresh fruit, ginseng, oolong and others. Each pot of tea ($5) is accompanied with a bowl of salted peanuts, a western addition to a Chinese staple, and refills are unlimited. If you simply open the cover of the teapot, a server will immediately come by your table to add more. As Tony, our waiter...
...deflation hawks still fundamentally misunderstand the nature of Japan's economic stall. Companies here make more than can be consumed, and the Japanese customer simply does not want what is on offer, however cheap it may be. What still is required is a national commitment to structural reform. Revising corporate-governance rules would be a good start. Right now, for example, bank managers need never fear for their jobs no matter how poorly they perform; that's because extensive cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies minimizes publicly available shares, making corporate takeovers, especially by foreigners, exceedingly difficult. Shielded from...
...poured the berry red medicinal rice wine into tiny teacups. Someone shouted the ubiquitous toast "Mot tram phan tram" (which means 100%) as we downed the liquor with one gulp and, in my case, with a grimace. Binh and his fellow butchers had been sitting around the tea stall in Cao Bang market for an hour, and we were on our third round of ruou and feeling little pain. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, except that it was only 6:35 in the morning...
...thronged with trendy Vietnamese and Westerners alike. One of the first, and still most popular, is Highway Four at 5 Hang Tre Street. Named after the famous scenic highway from Lang Son to Cao Bang in the north, the bar offers nearly every kind of ruou. Unlike the tea stall in Cao Bang market, however, Highway Four doesn't open until midday...
Cong Qihua, a former farmer who migrated from impoverished Anhui province to seek a better life selling vegetables from a stall in the outskirts of Shanghai, is, in his own way, upwardly mobile. Back in Anhui, he made about $120 a year. Today he and his wife make that much in a month. Still, the pace of his days is not so different. He has no reason to dash about, like many of his fellow Shanghainese, with a cell phone pressed to his ear. "Why would I need one of those things?" asks Cong...