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...place neutral oil and sesame oil. Once hot, add rice and sauté (a wok can be used if you have one). Add in the meat, heat and sear. When completed, push to the side of the pan and add the egg. Break it up and scramble in the pan. You want it to be scrambled in the pan so there is a contrast of yellow and white. Fold all the ingredients together. Add the herbs and fold, now add the fish sauce and soy sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste...
...electoral-fraud conviction of its former deputy. And a defamation suit against Samak, which could carry a jail sentence, is also working its way through the halls of justice, along with other corruption inquiries. Samak isn't out of the fire yet - even if has laid down his wok...
...derailing his leadership and vowed to serve out his four-year term. But Thaksin is the only elected Prime Minister in modern Thai history to complete a full term. Unless Samak can channel Thaksin's once-mighty political skills, the occasional TV chef may be returning to stirring the wok full-time...
...while she gazes at the "mighty and vast" Hudson, just outside New York City). There are also decent depictions of bland, sleepy McSuburbs like Lilburn, Ga. - a typical bedroom community of electricians, engineers, stucco churches and donut shops near Atlanta, where the family eventually moves after buying the Gold Wok, a local Chinese restaurant...
...telling of Nan's story, however, that the book really falls flat. Rather predictably, the swift transition from starving student-poet to middle-class business owner leaves him spiritually barren. He spends grueling days behind a fiery wok pondering how to balance his duty as a breadwinner with his duty as a poet. His writer friends are getting noticed, and he's not. (If you read his verses, appended at the end of the book, you'll see why. "Don't blame me if I am such a man/ who goes to ball games as a major fan," Nan chimes...