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		<title>by: Roger</title>
		<link>http://christinawaters.com/2008/08/06/a-fusion-too-far/#comment-7386</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Christina -- don't be so hasty in displaying your culinary ignorance!

In Taiwan, a CHINESE country which was occupied by JAPAN for about 50 years, just what you say is impossible is a reality.

And what in the HELL is "gan pao something"?  Again, you display ignorance of Chinese cuisine.  Please tell us exactly what your smarty-pants phrasing means, besides being smarty-pants phrasing.

If you truly do "dine the world", you would have dined at restaurants near the temple of the city gods in Taipei, where CHINESE versions of sushi are served along with sautes of shredded gobo, where the pickles are not limited to takuan, where sautes of "sansai" picked from local mountains are not-uncommon, and where Yen Shui Goose showered with ginger AND basil is an ordinary thing.  Oh, I forgot, basil is Thai/Viet/Italian ... can't possiblly be Chinese.

While this new eatery is mostly likely not going to feature this authentically TAIWANESE amalgam of cuisines (and peoples too), maybe we shouldn't second guess them.

At the very least, let's not second guess things we have no knowledge of.  Would you like "gan pao" sauce with those words you should be eating soon?  Or, since you seem to think that Norwegians have no knowledge of roasting meat over an open fire, would you prefer Nordic BBQ Sauce?</description>
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<p>In Taiwan, a CHINESE country which was occupied by JAPAN for about 50 years, just what you say is impossible is a reality.</p>
<p>And what in the HELL is &#8220;gan pao something&#8221;?  Again, you display ignorance of Chinese cuisine.  Please tell us exactly what your smarty-pants phrasing means, besides being smarty-pants phrasing.</p>
<p>If you truly do &#8220;dine the world&#8221;, you would have dined at restaurants near the temple of the city gods in Taipei, where CHINESE versions of sushi are served along with sautes of shredded gobo, where the pickles are not limited to takuan, where sautes of &#8220;sansai&#8221; picked from local mountains are not-uncommon, and where Yen Shui Goose showered with ginger AND basil is an ordinary thing.  Oh, I forgot, basil is Thai/Viet/Italian &#8230; can&#8217;t possiblly be Chinese.</p>
<p>While this new eatery is mostly likely not going to feature this authentically TAIWANESE amalgam of cuisines (and peoples too), maybe we shouldn&#8217;t second guess them.</p>
<p>At the very least, let&#8217;s not second guess things we have no knowledge of.  Would you like &#8220;gan pao&#8221; sauce with those words you should be eating soon?  Or, since you seem to think that Norwegians have no knowledge of roasting meat over an open fire, would you prefer Nordic BBQ Sauce?
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