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We munched on roasted duck at the local New China resturant. Also, not-bad sushi, and baked clams in brown sauce, bok choy-rice noodles.

>>It cost 348 yuan for four, or about $50.<<

I now understand why you chose China to visit as will millions of other Americans this year. With it's fixed exchange rate it's one of the few places Americans can visit with out losing their asses on Bushdollars.
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I fond it extraordinarily hypocritical for the Chinese government to say the Dalai Lama is holding the Olympics hostage in light of the fact that China has held Tibet hostage for over 50 years.

Free Tibet!!

I am wondering how long those dead ducks have been hanging there in the open before they go into the fire.
China is pretty lax about health issues, so be very careful, Max!
And I don't think I could force down a duck foot, warm or cold.

How do the Chinese celebrate Easter........oh. Never mind. While we've been devouring tasty Easter vittles today, we hit another one of Rev. Wrights Goddamn American moments. The 4000th US soldier gave their life for Cheney & Exxon today.

Max....while you're over there.....check out the possibility of starting an American colony on Chinese soil. The Republicans are gonna sell us out to the Chinese in another Bear Stearns type fire sale anyway. We might as well get a jump on the deal. We could subdivide unwanted land, get a sweet deal on unwanted FEMA trailers and start ā kěn sè....that's Chinese for Arkansas...I couldn't copy & paste the dang funny symbols. 4000 and counting and counting and counting.....

Dang those things look bad hanging there.

Max, go to KFC. I hear they love it. Current statistics show that KFC caters 60% of the wedding receptions now in China!

Goof, When I was in Japan I learned, KFC was booked solid and sold out weeks in advance of Christmas Eve. Was so hard for me to believe I went in and asked myself.. tis true.

>>how long those dead ducks have been hanging there in the open before they go into the fire.
China is pretty lax about health issues<<

I'm always getting food atrocity stories about China- either they are eating broiled dog, humans or old poultry. Americans get disgusted when they read those stories. But we think nothing of ingesting literally tons of harmful chemicals each year which find their way into our food via crop spraying or animal feeds/injections.

Several years ago I had a contract with one of NWA's large poultry producers. While sitting in the researcher's office he had to step out. My eyes roamed to a memo from the CEO to the researcher. The memo concerned a flock of 20,000 experimental birds which had been subjected to a dreaded disease. The response from the CEO was to inject the birds with strong antibiotics then send them to the processing plant.

More pics Max.

You Rock!

Max, that picture reminds me of the episode from No Reservations, when Anthony Bourdain visited China and went to Beijing's equivalent of Sims or Craig's for roast duck. Looks delicious...