Yo! Panda Express. Mumbai is gunning for you.

According to this article, Yo! China, a 5-outlet chain of fast food restaurants in India is planning expansion to the 100-store level in India. Panda Express is cited as a model. Meanwhile, another newspaper takes a dim view of the quality of Chinese food in India.

Quote of the Week (but I'm not sure which week).

This was cited in the (San Francisco) Bay Guardian a couple of weeks ago:

"I'm eating a Chinese egg roll. But when I eat it, I'm still Mr. Rogers."
-- Fred Rogers

Dim Sum in South Africa

Thanks to Dave Chan for this link. Be sure to read through to the part where Melissa Lai divulges an important cooking secret she learned from her grandmother

Dim Sum good eating

Penetrate seems an apt word here

From the PR Mills:

Ginger Beef Corporation Penetrates Eastern Canada Market

Mise en place Chinese takeout marches on!

Penetrate THIS, Ginger Beef Corporation.

Why Jamaican Chinese food is "irie"

A Jamaican blogger explains it all:

Chinese Food

I feel for some Chinese food now! Hey, like most Jamaicans, I-an-I love Chinese food bad bad, you know. Trust me, we doh romp with chinese food at all... maybe thats because it tastes so damned irie.

Actually, you know what I've found? I have had chinese food at a number of places, including New York, Philly, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles and probably a few more places that I don't remember, and nowhere else has it tasted as irie as it does back a Yard. Anybody else agree with me?

I know a couple of people who agree whole heartedly, and one of them offered his hypothesis as to why this is so. He said that the Chinese tend to use ingredients local to the area where they are making the food. By that, I mean that they may introduce some of the seasonings which they find in their current location into the menus they offer, thus changing the taste of the meals somewhat. Also, he felt that they might even adapt some of the local cooking methods and blend them with their own methods, and in many of these cases, the synergy of the two methods of cooking just stands head and shoulders above what either method could produce on its own.

It sounds plausible to me...

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