The chief of the school canteen, surnamed Zheng, confirmed that they made the dish with 50 leftover moon cakes after Mid-Autumn Festival. They mixed the moon cakes with sauces and vegetables such as green pepper, chili pepper and an edible black fungus, according to a recipe in the newspaper.
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Worst school lunch of the monthyear? Stir-fried mooncakes
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New Heights: Weekday Lunch Buffet
So our search for alcohol-fueled Friday lunches led us to New Heights the other week. Antipasti lunch buffet with soup and a complimentary glass of wine sound exactly like what we need.
Our new favorite Brazilian BBQ place
Shanghaiist are unabashed meat-lovers. We are also big fans of all-you-can-eat places, since blogging is, how shall we say, not a paying gig the most lucrative of professions. So we were delighted to come across a Brazilian churrascaria that doesn't a) rip a new one for drinks and b) actually has a nice, relaxing ambiance to it. Samba Brazilian Steakhouse was one of the places in the New Factories that we peeked into on our...
La Crêperie: Comfort food for a crappy day!
Shanghaiist has been feeling very French of late. After wondering when Paul was going to re-open and hanging out at Bar Rouge's "Excusez-moi" party... well, we had dinner in La Crêperie - Shanghai's new and so far only eatery devoted to crêpes from the Brittany region.
Today's Links: Fish, damn dams and the 'Sun King'
"Urban parts of China show about 18.3 per cent of the married men cheating."
"Zhou came to London to gain experience in an event she only began training for in 2002 and promptly gave warning to her better-known rivals that she would be one to watch at the world championships in August and next year's Beijing Olympics."
From the Shanghai Auto Show. "What is missing? Almost anything that could indicate the emergence of a distinctly Chinese school of automotive design."
"On Thursday, 1,700 people had to be evacuated from four villages after a dam in northwest China's Gansu province was breached, causing water to flood the surrounding area and destroying a highway bridge."
"In a major blow to Pakistan's counter-terrorism credentials, China has for the first time publicly acknowledged the existence of terrorist camps within the territory of its 'all-weather' ally."
"China are set to face off against Denmark, New Zealand and Brazil in the group stage of the women's World Cup after the draw was made public on Sunday in Wuhan, the largest city of central China."
"Chinese cosmetic producers are to be banned from exaggerating the effects of their products, with wording like '100 percent effective' or 'removes freckles instantly'."
"Chinese officials have release 400,000 rare fish into the Yangtze River as part of an effort to save the river's fish stocks."
"Today, he has traded his research smock for blue business suits, a CEO's 63rd-floor corner office and a role advising the Chinese government on renewable energy policy."
"Microsoft is stepping up research operations in a market where about 80 percent of business software is pirated, and more than 90 percent of 1.3 billion people don't own computers. Earlier this week, Gates, announced a $3 software package for students."
"That's right, I'm now a semi-quasi-paid blogger, but IMHO the biggest plus is the knowledge that you have your own cartoon headshot."
"This movie turned out to be a classic. I'll wait a while and re-watch it later, but right now I have to say this is both one of the best Chinese movies ever made, and also one of the best movies from the 30s worldwide."
"But at least for a while on this early morning, the small lake in one corner of the park, surrounded by a tumble of boulders and the tall willows, was a place to step back in time." Ritan Park in Beijing.
"Wu Gong is not the only one rejecting China's panda breeding program, in which scientists have deployed everything from panda porn (films of the animals mating) to Viagra (the drug didn't work) ..."
"The message is clear: Shanghai under water, Tibetan glaciers disappearing, crop yields in precipitous decline, epidemics flaring. "
"The Place Hotel & Spa ... will be an exciting new addition to the city’s luxury boutique hotel scene when it opens early next year. The hotel will be ... part of the Park Place development which is set to be a new business landmark on Nanjing Lu West."
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140 Mistresses ... and other Shanghai scandal news
The Telegraph, relying on reports out of Hong Kong, provides us with the latest news and gossip on the seemingly unstoppable Shanghai corruption scandal. Qiu Xiaohua, the implicated former head of China's National Bureau of Statistics who we told you about briefly last week, is said to have taken more than US$6.5 million out of Shanghai's pension fund and given it as a "gift" to his "secret mistress and their daughter." How did this generous offering come to light? It was "found recorded in a ledger kept by the head of the pension fund"! How's that for transparency?
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