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helandou

Posted on: Buying a Drink
November 7, 2008 at 7:04 AM

I'm surprised that shao deng is written: 捎等。 I always thought it was 小等, which to me sounded very logical ('small wait'), unfortunately it's not that easy this time ;)

Posted on: Snacks
November 6, 2008 at 7:31 AM

There are so many nice chinese snacks! Unfortunately I often don't know their names, like the sweet potato chips, all the fried unhealthy but oh so tasty stuff, the millions and millions different kinds of cookies... However, I was very happy to find "Churros" at the food festival in Hangzhou; never expected to find them here, since we don't even have them in Europe outside of Spain.

Posted on: Fat Camp
September 23, 2008 at 5:41 AM

Yet another comment about the 'why don't chinese (women) get fat?' question. I don't think it's because of the meat in the western diet, cause although ofcourse some westerners do eat a lot of meat (maybe in the states and australia??) I think the average european keeps it to a 100g a day. Still, 1 out of 3 is too fat. I think it really must be that the digestive system works different for chinese people (asians in general??), cause it's only fat they eat here, and not enough vitamins because of the cooked vegetables and the plain rice and bread.