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Posted on: Clearing the Table
October 8, 2008 at 1:11 AMi found that if I put the dishes on the floor, the waiter tends to come over quite quickly...
Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 2, 2008 at 3:55 PM1000 lessons! Outstanding!
Posted on: ID Check at the Internet Cafe
September 23, 2008 at 12:46 AMyou can purchase drinks and tea at the internet cafes. Is not a problem. also if you need to, you can sleep there. just look like you are on line, and no one with bother you...
Posted on: Rock, Scissors, Cloth
August 8, 2008 at 7:28 PMwo xi huan na! This is outstanding!
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hainan
July 17, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hainan
July 17, 2008 at 4:58 PMHainan's Chicken Rice
Anyone who visits Hainan, China must know what Hainan chicken rice is because it is so popular that you can find it every where, either in a five stars restaurant or at a street vender. Not only in Hainan either, I actually saw some restaurants in San Francisco and New York City that carry this dish in their menu. What make it Hainan chicken rice and not Hong Kong or Taiwan chicken rice? What is the difference? The locals claim that their chicken is soft, tender and not greasy. Soft and tender, yes. Not greasy, no. I found that it is as greasy as anywhere else. Also, their chickens have to be specially raised, it has to be male, castrated young chicken and they add husk in it's food.
Both my parents are from Hainan. I know about Hainan ckicken rice as early as I can remember. My dad used to castrate our own chicken. When he did a good job, the chicken survived and we raised that chicken until it grew to a mature size. If it didn't survive, we would eat the chicken that day. Whenever he planned to castrate a chicken, my mom will hold the morning grocery shopping until the result of the castration was known. My dad hated that. My mom insisted on doing so - she did not want to buy too much for that day! My mom is an expert in cooking chicken rice, she said so and I really believe so. No matter what occasion or festival, it never went without chicken rice. I was asked to help my mom prepare this dish so many times that even now, I still remember every step of preparing a Hainan rice disk.
To begin, you boil the freshly butchered chicken with some salt, ginger and green onion. Be sure not to boil too long. Test the chicken by pocking into it with a fork; if no blood comes out, it is done. Scoop some chicken oil from the pot into the rice cooker (an automatic rice cooker will do.) Start to heat the rice cooker, adding a few cloves of fresh garlic and add uncooked rice. Mix it thoughly, then add chicken soup in proportion to the rice cooked and wait for the fragrance of the chicken rice when it is done. The chicken is served with two kinds of sauce, one is a blend of ginger with chicken oil and salt; the other is a blend of ginger, soy sauce and soy bean paste. The later one is less greasy.
The first time I went to Hainan, I made a big mistake when my relatives asked me what I want to eat. Since I was in Hainan, of course I chose Hainan chicken rice. For the next couple of days every meal I had Hainan chicken rice! By the fifth or sixth meal I started to feel like chicken grease was pouring out from my face. My daughter, who was a vegetarian then, kept saying she was not hungry just to be polite. I had to ask for other less greasy dishes and more vegetable for both of us.
Over time, I make some modifications on my chicken rice to reduce the animal fat as much as possible. I boil the chicken the day before and keep both the chicken and soup separate in the refrigerator. The next day I remove the fat from the soup, practically in a sheath because the fat all clotted by then. Instead of using chicken oil, I use a couple of spoonfuls of olive oil mixed with garlic and rice, then use the almost fat free soup to cook rice. As for the sauce, I use olive oil to replace the chicken oil also. The cold chicken kept overnight tastes good in a different way since it is more firm. To me, this modified chicken rice is not much different from the original recipe. I do not know how good it is to my health but it sure makes me feel a lot less guilty when eatting it!
Try it and enjoy the famous Hainan Chicken Rice.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hainan
July 17, 2008 at 4:56 PMhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/china.html
Posted on: Golf
July 13, 2008 at 6:04 PMThe largest golf course in the world is in Guangdong. It has an amazing number of holes. It is on a beautiful gentling rolling countryside.
Mission Hills Golf Club: Huge resort anchors booming China links scene
By Brandon Tucker,
Staff Writer
Is the golf industry experiencing a slowdown? Maybe in North America. But Asia doesn't want to hear it.
Golf in Asia has benefited hugely from the continent's emergence in the global market. Corporations from around the world are bringing their business - and their golfing personnel - to the Far East, and world-class luxury golf resorts are sprouting up from Vietnam to Thailand.
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No country has made a bigger splash in global capitalism, or global golf, than China. Exhibit A is the massive Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, a half-hour drive from Hong Kong. With 10 golf courses open and two more nearing completion, Mission Hills is the largest golf complex in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
The $625 million development is spread out over 15 square kilometers, leaving plenty of room for more superlatives: the world's largest pro shop, the world's largest outdoor kids' playground, Asia's biggest tennis complex (51 courts). There are six driving ranges, and the main clubhouse measures 300,000 square feet.
The big numbers continue off course. The Mission Hills complex features four spas, a 315-room five-star hotel and two luxury residential communities, plus, not surprisingly, ample conference and function space for conventions and business events.
Schmidt-Curley: The architects behind Mission Hills golf
Mission Hills' courses bear the imprimaturs of a dozen top designers and PGA Tour professionals from nine countries, including China's Zhang Lian Wei. But behind the names stands one design firm: Arizona-based Schmidt-Curley.
A recognized force in Asia golf, the firm solidified its international name with the monumental Mission Hills project.
"Not only is Mission Hills big, the process of putting the course down on that ground was a huge achievement," partner Brian Curley told WorldGolf.com. "We had to move mountains, literally. It wasn't like plotting a course through dunes."
Curley said the firm did what it could to minimize redundancy among the property's 12 courses.
"The most obvious differences between the courses would be in the bunker styles," he said. "The environment itself at Mission Hills, with dense jungle, heavy trees - that's consistent from course to course. The backdrops and frames are mostly the same.
"We try and bust it up with landscaping, different grass types, tee shapes and bunker themes."
Mission Hills has been the site of more than 30 international tournaments, including the 1995 World Cup of Golf and the Tiger Woods China Challenge. The Jose Maria Olazabal course is set to host the Omega World Golf Championships through 2018.
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The Olazabal is the resort's longest course at 7,400 yards, but it's the Greg Norman - densely tree-lined and featuring a rugged look reminiscent of Royal Melbourne in Australia - that has garnered a reputation as perhaps Asia's most difficult golf course.
More player-friendly designs include the David Leadbetter, David Duval and Annika Sorenstam courses. The Ernie Els and Jumbo Ozaki courses are outfitted with floodlights that allow play until 2 a.m.
The final two courses, the Pete Dye and a par-3 course, are slated to open this summer, rounding out the complex's 216 holes.
Posted on: Get in line!
November 24, 2008 at 6:42 PMEh... It's a part of life....