I hear they were charging extra for that at the Moscow Ritz Carlton.

I never really noticed the Muslim restaurants in Wuhan (but I'm only there for work, so it's hotel, office, eat around the office, eat around the hotel, eat at place that co-workers take me to). I love Xi'an for the Uyghur food - I'd love to go to Xinjiang some day, but I've heard from friends that no matter how much…

The Great Wall in Berkeley is pretty legit. Great Peking Duck.

Wuhan is like my least favorite place in Greater China to eat. Those crappy spicy noodles are what pass as "local food" - bleah.

Is that true - that 羊 肉 is mainly 山羊肉？Because I've been to places - mainly dumpling places - that make the differentiation. I eat a lot of lamb in China - chua'r on the street, hot pot, dumplings, etc.

It's been open here for a while already, and it's done kind of ok, but not great.

Yoghurt has always been a Beijing thing - even way back in the day before brands, you could always get the terracotta bottles back in the 80s. (and I assume before that too).

I loved and love Noble House. It's awful and awesome at the same time.

a lot of irreverent comedies

The thing about Chinese directors though is they'll make a bunch of absolute crap inbetwixt all of their excellent movies. Maybe Wang Kar-wai gets a pass (except My Blueberry Nights)

All of them in New Hampshire, California and New York! So illegal votes, but not to actually win the election. Good work there.

If only there were some Ents to lay waste to the Bannon regime.

Oh no doubt, it's just another fucking check mark in the book of kleptocracy. But just wanted to be accurate on what to be angry about.

I wonder if all of his stupid followers caught that

Bloomberg says his sons are going to be people at the opening.

Every federal election I've voted in (California, California, California, Texas, California, California, California) the Presidential vote hasn't mattered but everything else has.

A really good friend of mine who was a Hillary supporter via Facebook and is a MIchigan voter didn't vote because registering absentee and mailing the ballot was too much effort (we're overseas). I gave him a lot of shit but he feels really really really bad about it so I stopped.

Bannon I see more as Grima Wormtongue

Also, we'd have electrolytes.

Betsy DeVos's family got there way ahead of you.