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WWW.XIANEASE.COM MAY 2011 XIANEASE 1 19th 2 XIANEASE MAY 2011 WWW.XIANEASE.COM WWW.XIANEASE.COM MAY 2011 XIANEASE 3 m o Volume 13 Note From The Team ease.c Excitement! That’s pretty much our idea or miss something we used to have? XIANEASE n a www.xianease.com feeling right now, it seems that every note Send us a note at [email protected]. CONTENTS xi MAY 2011 is about the weather or something to do This month we have some great stuff General Manager with the weather and while it’s always a (of course we would say that) for you all, Yasuo Kitajima nice way to wax poetic about the passing from BBQ places to get fat and gyms to get In This Issue [email protected] of time it’s a rather strange obsession for skinny, another great restaurant review a team that has no window in their office by Amy, fashion tips from Kristen, more (yeah that’s right NO window). Anyway amazing recipes from Stephen, and a tea From the Team Marketing Manager let’s digress, it’s not the weather that has obsession from Christain. It’s a packed is- Patrick Antony us excited (though it is great), it’s not the 5 Note From the Xianease Team sue this month so don’t miss the Through [email protected] new issue (though maybe it should be), it’s Bar review from Sarah or the wedding that not even the fact that we are soon mov- Deborah attended. In fact we would like to ing our office to a room WITH a window China News Designer / Editor take some space here to thank those con- (though that does sounds wonderful), no tributors who put in their own time and Dylan it’s the fact that as you open this magazine 6 News from across China [email protected] effort to put monthly articles in the pages it represents our thirteenth issue and that you are holding, without them xianease May Calendar means we are officially a year old. would just be two covers and some aim- Art Director The odd thing about all that is the less ramblings. 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This is your 16 Xi’an Top Five - Street Food Deborah Howard [email protected] fast at once can muddle the memory Xi’an we are just here to help. and so to keep it all straight in our minds Community Fashion Writer we have updated our website with all of 18 Xie Xie Xi’an Kristen Zhou our past issues, check them out online [email protected] if you missed and article or just want to 20 Interview - Abdul Wahab see how we have changed over the past 22 St.Louis - Review Cuisine Writer 13 months. When put them all up we all 23 Stu’s Corner Stephen Robinson found it amazing how much has changed, [email protected] when we started we thought we had it all 34 Spice of Life! 20 24 right, but looking back it’s plain to see the 48 CHINESE, ENGLISH OR Amy Edwards side tracks and wrong turns we took. It SPANISH,Which of these three http://amzmiesu.wordpress.com would be great to hear what you all think languages is easier to learn? 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News But sharp-eyed police towed the gold-blinger vehicle away when they spotted it had been parked on a public road without a licence plate or road tax. A Hong Kong actor may have set a bizarre “The owners have 10 days to pay their fine. If they don’t it will be sold or new record by dying in five different soap crushed,” said a police spokesman. operas in a 24-hour period. Police were called when angry motorists complained that the streets Law Lok-lam’s character met a bloody end around the store were blocked by cars and pedestrians trying to get close during a fight in the martial arts drama to the car. Grace Under Fire, and he vomited blood before expiring in Fate to Fate. “I just wanted to get close to touch all that gold,” said one shopper. In Relic of an Emissary, Law played the “They were causing a public nuisance and had no permission for a public Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who show. Then when an officer noticed the car was unlicensed, it had to go,” died after an illness, reports the Straits added the police spokesman. Times. Kung fu football school In two other shows, Police Station No. 7 3 and comedy Virtues of Harmony, he died Shaolin monks are hoping to improve China’s poor football performance with off screen but his death was discussed by a new training school which combines other characters. football with kung fu. Hong Kong actors whose characters die Shi Yanlu, head of the venture at the are traditionally given a red packet with world famous Shaolin Temple, says he a token amount of money for good for- believes the disciplines of kung fu will tune. benefit young footballers. Law, 63, reportedly received several from He has selected 40 young monks to the superstitious production crews before train at the school under the supervision of martial arts experts and former shooting his death scenes. international footballers. “When I get a job, I don’t care if my char- Yanlu said: “Right now, China’s football performance is really disappoint- ing. We hope by combining kung fu elements and spirit, Chinese football acter in the drama will die. If he is sup- can perform better.” posed to die, he should go on and die,” Law said in a video posted on YouTube. As well as regular football training, the monks focus on aspects of the martial art, such as balance and leg strength, which will make them bet- “Why would dying in a drama matter? It’s ter footballers.
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