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May 18, 2012
Year of the Takeout Day 137: China Wok
Spare Ribs from China Wok (199 East 3rd Street, 212-228-5888)
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Pink Slime Opt-Out, Chinese Dishes in Translation
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that starting next fall, schools will be able to opt out of using "pink slime" meat for school lunches. [AP] The Chinese government is investigating a Beijing branch of McDonald's after a program on the country's state television showed the fast-food ... More >>
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March 4, 2012
Year of the Takeout Day 62: New Peking
Pork Dumplings from New Peking (76 Bushwick Avenue, 718-388-8866).
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January 18, 2012
Year of the Takeout: Day 16
Lobster Chow Fun and Hot and Sour Soup from China Star (145 First Avenue, 212-777-3888)
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Chinese Takeout: Can It Be Good?
Beautiful things can come from foam boxes. Long the staple of boozing bachelors and heartbroken chicks in romcoms, Chinese takeout tends to get more flak for its predictable greasiness, dicey quality -- and the fact that it completely bastardizes a highly respected culinary tradition -- than ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Extremely Picky Chinese Dater Now in Brooklyn Seeking 'Ivy League' American
The New York Post has tracked down the so-called "most-hated woman in China," and guess where she is! New York City, of course. Brooklyn, to be exact. Working at a nail salon. Why? 26-year-old Feng Luoyu, described as an "Ugly Girl" seeking marriage with unsufferably high demands, was ostraci ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2011
Four-Year-Old Chinese Girl Drives a Car [VIDEO]
The above video appears to show a 4-year-old girl in China at the wheel of a car. She is navigating a relatively busy street while her parents can be heard instructing her. Like the smoking baby before her, there is sure to be much outrage about this child exhibiting the dangerous behavior of an ad ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
There Is a Subway System Crazier Than New York's
It's Beijing's.
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Michael Cirino Wanted to Butcher Himself Out of A Whole Steer for Meatopia
Mike Cirino, culinary madman. You might have heard of Michael Cirino, the culinary mastermind behind A Razor, A Shiny Knife, after his infamous L train luncheon landed on the pages of the New York Times. Now he's trying something equally as crazy: cooking an entire steer whole for the upcomin ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2011
North Korea Is Second Happiest Nation, According to North Korea
According to a ranking done by Kim Jong-il's completely unbiased television station, the best place in the world to hang with happy people is...China! But why would you move there when the second happiest place in the world is North Korea? They're both pretty damn happy. China got a 100 out o ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Jilted Bride Tries to Jump From Ledge in China; Internet Critiques Her Footwear
Changchun, eastern China: A woman is trying on her wedding dress when her husband-to-be calls off the wedding because he's in love with someone else. The woman is, understandably, devastated. The woman happens to be in an apartment with a window ledge that's 7 stories above ground. She prepares to j ... More >>
Film
May 11, 2011
City of Life and Death Weeps for the Rape of Nanking
Changchun, eastern China: A woman is trying on her wedding dress when her husband-to-be calls off the wedding because he's in love with someone else. The woman is, understandably, devastated. The woman happens to be in an apartment with a window ledge that's 7 stories above ground. She prepares to j ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2011
Chinese Toddlers Enjoying a Nice Cig Or Two
More children smoking! And quite gleefully, I might add. These little ones in China appear to be maybe three or four years old. As evidence for YouTube commenters being the scum of the earth, see the first two comments on this video: "They're actually fully grown men. Chinese people are ju ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
China Bans TV Shows About Time Travel; People's Republic is Bakula-Free
When it comes to inexplicably banning things, China is a true superpower. The Times reports that China's State Administration for Radio, Film & Television has issued a statement saying they have banned dramas from television that depict people going back in time. The release says that these s ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
3D Porn Gettin' China All Worked Up
With all the talk about China being an emerging superpower and formidable economic player, we often forget that they still have to catch up with the good ol' US of A on some fronts. Namely, being cool about porn. The Independent reports that Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a multi-million dolla ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
The World Is Really Ending This Time!
I can't stand Chicken Little types who always think the planet is coming to an a tragic end. To me, their whining only adds to the general unpleasantness and their hot air can be detrimental to foliage. But after taking a look at today's headlines, I'm convinced not only that the sky is fa ... More >>
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April 3, 2011
Artist Ai Weiwei Arrested in Beijing
Ai Weiwei, one of China's best-known artists and a vocal critic of the Chinese government , has been arrested at the airport in Beijing. Ai was put under house arrest last year and has been harassed by officials in the past, including a forced demolition of his Shanghai studio, but now it seems t ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Executions Are Slightly Less Popular These Days
The world is slightly less into killing people, according to Amnesty International -- or at least, less into killing people by way of official state execution. Approximately 527 people were executed last year around the world, which represents a decrease from the 714 executed the previous yea ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Donald Trump Denies 2012 Presidential Run, But Rants About China and OPEC Anyway
Donald Trump, real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice boss, went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday and played coy, as usual, about a 2012 presidential run. He then ran through the cast of the new Apprentice season which features Mark McGrath, Lil' John, Latoya Jackson and Star Jones. Bu ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Snow: Making New Year's Eve an Even Bigger Shitshow Than Usual
Snow and garbage in China in 2009.Even though snow, technically, melts, and even though the next series of days have forecasts above freezing, there was just so damn much of it! Which means the snow is expected to hang around, malingering malevolently and slowly melting, through the holiday. ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010
GAME ON
An exhibit you can control
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010
LOVE ACTUALLY
Get backed into a corner with someone sweet.
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Das Racist Are Now Officially Banned In the U.K.
Free Dapwell! All images via DasRacist.netAt least, they were detained in and then deported from that country yesterday, due to "some sticklerism on the part of UK Customs regarding paperwork." Or was it because of their radical political views and brown skin?! The trio has been out in first ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Vict ... More >>
Film
December 8, 2010
Beijing Taxi: Hop On in for a Lux Tour of Contemporary China
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Vict ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2010
WikiLeaks Reveals Chinese Leaders Googling Themselves
"Egosurfing," also known as vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling, master-googling, is now officially a geopolitical issue causing tension between China and the United States. The latest WikiLeaks dump includes diplomatic cables about the problems of balanci ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
Deer Prefers Beer (Video)
While we wait for more information on the Discovery Channel gunman situation...um...there's this: There is a deer in China that, apparently, likes to drink beer. Which is slightly less horrifying than a baby in Indonesia who smokes a pack or 10 a day -- maybe?
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Is North Korea's Kim Jong-il Playing Jimmy Carter?
We've seen this sort of thing go down before. Someone is all about hanging out with you, emailing, calling, texting...and then when you finally set a date and prepare to meet, he or she debarks for another country spur of the moment, or maybe even stands you up outright. Can such be the case ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
Fast Food World: KFC Conquers China, While Subway Grows an Organic Garden in Japan
KFC takes China.Maybe the best way to regain world dominance is for America to spread one of the phenomena that helped bring us down in the first place. Let's make the world fat and addicted to fast food, just like we are. Did you know that a new KFC opens somewhere in mainland China almost ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Sad Things for Lonely People: Recall Issued on Children's Tiaras
Because the ways in which a pint-sized beauty queen's life may be endangered seem to grow more numerous by the day, we're particularly concerned about the news that 7,300 children's tiaras, made in China and imported by Wilton Industries Inc. (bad, bad, bad!), have been recalled because they ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
School Attacks Highlight Mental Illness, Increasing "Social Pressures" in China
Why do Chinese adults keep attacking Chinese schoolchildren? Most recently: A man broke into a school in the Shandong Province on Friday and beat five preschoolers before setting himself on fire. This has been the fourth assault on Chinese students in just over a month, and the third in thr ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2010
Morning Links
Happy Thursday. We wish you a glorious tax/census/free-coffee-from-Starbucks (with reusable travel mug) day. For those productive folks who have already done their taxes and censuses, fear not! Amuse/disturb yourselves with the following: • God help us, Tea Partyers are educated. This ne ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
China Executes the Most People in the World, But Texas Goes Big Too
Remember how your mom used to tell you that the spanking was because she cared? According to Amnesty International findings published today and reported by the New York Times, China wins the global "tough love" award, having killed more of its own people in 2009 than all other nations combine ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2010
China to Ban Public-Space Smoking in 7 Cities
The anti-smoking ban pioneered in New York have finally caught on in its natural home of Red China, where the totalitarian government has ordered a ban on smoking in indoor public spaces in seven provincial capitals. It's up to the local governments of Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenyang, Harbin, N ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Taiwanese Stinky Tofu
It looks so innocuous sitting on the plate, doesn't it? Southeast Asians have their durian, Scandinavians sometimes love lutefisk (especially at Christmastide), but the Taiwanese insist on stinky tofu when it comes to scarfing something really fetid.
Blogs
December 2, 2009
Organ Recital: 'Crispy Colorectal' at Northeast China Food in Flushing
The hilariously named "crispy colorectal" at Northeast China Food. Always on the lookout for new venues for the Organ Meat Society, I stumbled on a shitload--if you'll forgive the expression--at Northeast China Food recently.
Blogs
December 1, 2009
Some Like It Hot: 'Stewed Hot Pepper' at Northeast Chinese Food
The magnificent plate of "stewed hot pepper" at the new Dongbei restaurant in South Flushing. One of the hottest dishes I've enjoyed this year appeared the night before last at Northeast China Food (aka East North Food Culture), a new restaurant just north of the Queens Botantical Garden on ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009
SNOW DAY
Get psyched for winter
Voice Choices
September 15, 2009
'China Underground: Sounds from the Mongolian Grasslands'
Get psyched for winter
Blogs
June 2, 2009
China Blocks Twitter, Other Web 2.0 Stuff, As Part of Post-Freedom Internet Boom
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, China is apparently blocking Twitter -- and maybe also "Blogger, Flickr... Livejournal, Tumblr, the Huffington Post and Microsoft's Live.com, Hotmail, its MSN Space blog tool and its new search engine Bing," says Fox News. Whew -- ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2009
Cheaper McD's in China
McDonald's is lowering its prices in China as the nation's economy slows.[NY Times]The FDA defends its handling of the salmonella peanuts saying they were already investigating the Peanut Corporation of America.[NY Daily News]Some fans of the Biggest Loser are compelled to eat unhealthily while they ... More >>
Theater
January 28, 2009
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real and Soul of Shaolin
Boxers and kung fu warriors hit our stages
Film
January 14, 2009
Bollywood Goes East—Far East—For Chandni Chowk to China
Boxers and kung fu warriors hit our stages
Blogs
December 22, 2008
Xcellent Xmas Present for Foodies -- Fuchsia
Boxers and kung fu warriors hit our stages
Blogs
November 13, 2008
Shelved in fiction: 'Henry Paulson and the Toxic Assets'
Boxers and kung fu warriors hit our stages
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
AND THE WINNER IS . . .
Where to watch the election results
Film
April 8, 2008
Young & Restless in China: Red Curtan Gen-Xers
Doc examines the generation changing China
News
April 8, 2008
China's Blood-Splattered Olympics
The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president
Film
January 8, 2008
Generation China
Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland
Film
January 8, 2008
Drowning in Progress
Contemporary China, fluid yet unstable, in Still Life
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