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人鯊誌 from alexhofford on Vimeo.
Interesting movie. One small thing however: a part (from ~1:40 to 2:20) shows a few primitive fishermen doing small-scale shark-hunting and fin-cutting, which I think probably would not convince anyone that sharks are being over-hunted. This may be a little confusing, and I think it is important to get the [...]

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昨天往澳門團拜，下午再到盧九公園旁邊的「典雅檀香山」咖啡室。
好咖啡！食物亦相當不俗。

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下午遊行後去沙田宜家，見到呢把好刀做緊「開心大減價」。嘩！大減價都要五舊水，乜鬼孖公仔都買到啦！使乜買宜家？

各位有所不知，呢把係大馬士革刀。

需則我唔煮飯，我都好想買呢件藝術品。可惜，太太唔識欣賞，唔准買。

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Grand day out to Macau last Thursday. Had coffee at one of the THS Cafes (probably the one near Lou Lim Yeic Garden). They do they coffee right. WILL GO AGAIN.

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We went to this new MOS Burger place in Tuen Mun last night after Jasper’s swim lesson. I had a shrimp burger, Jasper had a Sakusaku Chicken burger, while the Lady had a hotdog. The food was fine but a bit odd.
If White Spot Triple-O’s is this big friendly Canadian guy who tries very hard [...]

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寄件者 2009-02-15 SZ

上次去新州店，好食！

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400mg of Celebrex didn’t help enough, so for safety I decided to cut short my trip and returned home yesterday. I then visited a local clinic and got an injection, and has gotten better.
The local diet in Henan and Shanxi was very salty and greasy. The cold climate also didn’t help my circulation. Despite the [...]

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攝於赤峰附近。

赤峰附近大量種植玉米。我問司機他們是否多吃玉米，他說現在大家環境好了，種出來的玉米多用作飼料，亦有用來製造甲醇。

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My old man has managed to chip it, at two spots on the sharp edge. One bit came off while in the storage box, and the other bit came off while cutting… bread.
He’s made the call (phone number printed on the blade) and should be getting a replacement (for under HK$100) soon. Update to follow.

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Been running around not getting quite enough sleep, so updates have slowed down.
House moving.

Da Zhao Temple, the home temple of Qing emperor Kangxi.

A big Buddist scripture wheel.

Some fscking!!!! hot!!!! dry chilli pepper. A small one had my mouth burning!!!! for 10 minutes. AVOID. AT. ALL. COST.
We then took the plane and flew to Chifeng in [...]

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We took a tour bus to the grass field

and visited a Mongol tent cluster, for tourists.

We had some traditional Mongolian tea and snacks. This is that salty tea. With stir-fried millet.

We had some local friends who are into traditional Mongolian singing and dancing to come with us, and we got the traditional Mongolian traditional guest-welcoming [...]

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Dinner time!

It is not water in the big wine glass. It’s 37% proof spirit. ~12 500ml bottles of that stuff, among the 14 of us. Scary…

Finest lamb and beef I’ve ever had.

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We took the afternoon flight from Shenzhen, which took three hours to get to Hohhot. Got bumped up to First Class. Absolutely charming air hostess. Food was so-so. Got there at ~1800 hours. The aerial view outside the window when the aircraft was approaching landing was simply stunning.

Nice new airport. Style of Norman Foster. This [...]

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Updated entry. The first words are in. Mum and dad said the Chinese-made ceramic knife is much better at cutting bread their special-purpose bread knife.

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I have heard of it, but never seen it before, until yesterday. In Justco, Shenzhen Nantau. Kyocera ceramic knifes. White blade. Cool looking. Light and well balanced. Very sharp. Wicked.
Not cheap thou.
Update (20/5): Over the weekend I saw Justco in Tuen Mun selling them. The tubby guy had no idea how to sell this piece [...]

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I didn’t know that they sell pastry cakes.

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Dinner w/ the Lady’s friends last night at this place. Been there once a few months ago for lunch and loved it. Dinner was just as good. Very reasonable price (10 of us, 9 treating the Birthday Girl, came to HK$74 per head). The icy drinks are nice-no ice cubes, but Slurpee-like ice.
Right opposite to [...]

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Great success with Hovis Bread Yeast! Beats the cheap yeast I bought by a mile! The bread seems to raise much better and is a lot softer.
I am not the only one.

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Recipe. The bread is brown, smelled very good when it was still hot, softer than the plain white bread, and has this slight bitter taste (which unfortunately, the Lady isn’t too keen).
I have got some curry powder but no coconut flakes, but I am still going to go ahead with the curry bread.

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