i hear Hotan(Hetian) is the place to go for excellent local Uyghur food. i wonder if they serve their lamb dumplings with sour cream like khinkali/manti(similar to pierogi) from other turkic nations in Central Asia? and hopefully sometime this year i hope to visit the Hui in Shandong(and to check out the solar…

"But - the show was determined it was about Kate Beckett Versus Senator Fucknutz" you don't know how many times i've screamed at my monitor about exactly this.

yeah unfortunately Brendan Fraser did not carry the charisma after puffing up. and Nathan's right now i'll keep following because of Alan's Con Man and Zach's Nerd HQ. the latter half of Castle would've been more fun with Ryan, Esposito and Lanie as the leads. sorry in advane if you're a Stana fan but her acting…

*sigh* yeah, aren't they more known for being "next to" the province that's has the spiciest food in China? (for everyone else, Wuhan's in Hubei, it translates to Lake North, and spicy Hunan province, translates to Lake South). IMO, Guilin rice noodles with their spicy pickled veges and Sichuan's use of flower…

yeah, and if you're in places like Dalian, Shenyang, or Wuhan you'll sometimes see these little black goats tied to a tree outside a restaurant, waiting to be butchered as fresh meat. Geese are very common fare between roast geese of Cantonese-style bbq, steamed geese with southern fermented tofu sauce(the red kind)…

"the only movie to make more money than it was the American feature transformers revenge of the fallen"

well, to be fair a lot of the "lamb" are goats and not meat sheep breeds like Merino or Texel. woolly sheep are mostly from Inner Mongolia, and even then, it's mostly cashmere goats, and some merino sheep. further south, the goat used for winter lamb stews are black Duan goats (we call them black mountain goat).…

you're awesome. thanks!

and yet we use lard like crazy here. if you've ever eating glossy har-gow skins or very fluffy bbq pork buns, then it likely had lard in it. maybe it's just that beef is rarely consumed in East Asia until the recent century and even now it's still the least eaten of the various normal meats. (my estimate from most…

and this is why movies like Ironman 3 don't count against the quota.

could we get Bon Qui Qui instead?

worship the sun? there are no goa'ulds here.

Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter, and a CCP propaganda film, all before Flowers of War.
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not to mention it's already been done, with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li no less.

as a society that believes in constructs like reincarnation and karma from Buddhism, in terms of nature vs nurture, traditional China in general believes heavily in the former, even if tiger moms try to force the latter. coincidentally, it's the communist party that partly got rid of this belief during the Mao era,…

simply put - not not something is not the same as something.

i need to find that one sometime. i quite liked Corin's season on Stargate but it seems like he dropped off the radar after that.

i already love it here. =)

sorry, i'm in a city that 99% of the people have no idea what Bill and Ted is so i can't assume you know. =)

haven't seen that one. i rarely choose Aaron Kwok movies(he's had his fair share of duds) as i think he's a better dancer than either singer or actor, but the occasional ones that have been recommended to me(like Floating City) are pretty good so i'll give this one a try.