Chinese Restaurant Food Draws Criticism

The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day.

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Animal rights campaigners have criticised the Chinese over their extreme eating habits after a video of diners eating a live fish became a hit on the internet.

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A business dinner in China

In my years of traveling to China, I've learned that one of the most difficult moments for my fellow American travelers is often the celebratory banquet.

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Although Indian curries have long been regarded as our first choice more people picked Chinese as their first choice. But the two varieties of food attracted far more votes than any other meal choices, accounting for a whopping 70 per cent of the ethnic food market.

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A customer claims a mouse was the main ingredient in her dish at a Chinese buffet in El Paso, Texas. Warning: the video is very graphic.

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China will spend three days marking the moment when tens of thousands died in a devastating earthquake, while hope of finding more trapped survivors dwindled Sunday and preventing hunger and disease became more pressing.

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BEFORE I begin, a wish to all for good fortune in this Lunar New Year, annum 4706, a Year of the Rat in the cyclical Chinese zodiac.

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The Art of Buying a Communal Car

The art of buying a shared car is a lot like the art of ordering Chinese food for two.

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The health cooker

UPON arriving in Zhuhai, near Macao and Hong Kong, after three years in Southwest China, where the only real western restaurant 10 years ago was at the Holiday Inn, I asked, to my future demise, "Is there a McDonald's here?"

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People sure love to display their racism proudly on their T-shirts. Last June we told you about Threadless's questionable milk bottle miscegenation shirt, and now they're back with another racist shirt called "Flied Lice."

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Each evening, thousands of Americans drift into Chinese restaurants or, if they are too lazy to go out, pick up the phone and order one of the most popular dishes on the menu: General Tso's Chicken, a sugary-spicy melange of dark-meat tidbits, deep-fried then fired up with ginge …

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I fully admit that I am not a food expert. I've never been to culinary school, my palate isn't particularly advanced and I probably have no business writing about any kind of food (even if it is crappy carts and dives in Midtown).

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Waggly tail

A Chinese friend says not to be so picky about food. But as a kid, I swore to eat only what I wanted as an adult. Didn't know then what China would be serving up.

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