Lesson Comments

@matt no need to worry about the meat; it is usually washed thoroughly before use.  :-) BTW good work again. 新疆 food may be the most 'franc... Read more

Oh we can't forget the formidable 碧螺春 Bìluóchūn from Sūzhōu's （苏州） West Mountain (西山/xīshān). My TCM Dr and old friend in Suzhou ofte... Read more

The Lop Nur area has not been permanently inhabited since about 1920. .  . . Between 1964 and 1996 the area was used intermittently as a test sit... Read more

@a1pi2 - nice to hear that one again! I remember it like this: A Buddhist monk, visiting New York City for the first time in twenty years, walked u... Read more

@kimiik Okay so you caught me out using lame excuses to cover the fact that I am a hopeless chilli addict. :p Too much chilli can kill certain flavo... Read more

My two Chinese boys at school laughed at the peanut joke - but they've been here long enough to be cool Aussie teenagers as well, so they insisted it... Read more

One of my favorite old jokes could easily be relocated to China: a monk walks into a pizza parlor (or up to a hotdog vendor or into a hot pot restaura... Read more

Taklamakan desert here [marked with C ] Hehe,a new romantic twist,but will she end up looking like a stalker if she follows him to other province... Read more

I loved the Pulp Fiction tangent...one of my all-time favorite movie scenes. These videos are perfect...one of the many features that keeps Cpod fa... Read more

@matt, When the meat is cooked there's no real need to add chili to kill any bacteria on top of the meat. It will only kill bacteria in your stomach.... Read more