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You Xiang Rou Si, meaning Fish fragrant pork strips, doesn’t actually smell like fish nor does it contain any.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 300g shredded pork (”Zhu rou si”) or pork cut into matchstick sized strips
• 1 carrot and two good sized bamboo shoots cut into the same size as the pork piece
• 5 or 6 crushed dried red chile pappers
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 4 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons brown sugar, dissolved in the soy sauce
• 3 teaspoon brown Chinese vinegar
• 2 chopped spring onions.
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch

LET’S GET COOKING..

1. Brown the pork and set aside
2. Stir fry the bamboo shoots and carrot for 1 minute.
3. Add Chilli, ginger and garlic and stirfry for 30 seconds longer.
4. Re add the pork, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar and spring onions and mix.
5. Lower the heat and stir through corn starch.
6. Serve.

My Internet access is the worst I’ve experienced since I was on a University LAN in Yantai, Shandong Province, bum f*ck nowhere.

What makes me laugh/want to kill someone is that despite running firefox on an Ubuntu system (a godsend in virrii and spyware ridden Chinese Cyberspace) the censortards still insist that its Internet explorer that ???????.

From The South China Morning Post

Aug 02, 2008

A representative of more than 100 property owners from Suzhou was detained and sent home yesterday when she tried to submit an application to protest in a designated zone in Beijing during the Olympics.

Ge Yifei , a retired doctor representing 140 owners from The Lakeview luxury development in Suzhou Industrial Park, in Jiangsu province , arrived in the capital in the morning. She went straight to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to file the application.

While she was explaining to an officer why she wanted to protest several men claiming to be officials from the Suzhou city government’s petition office rushed in and blocked her from leaving, according to Yan Lin , a Lakeview property owner who had accompanied Dr Ge.

Mr Yan said he was let go only after he showed his identity card to prove he was a Beijing resident, but Dr Ge was detained.

“The policeman on duty was telling her she should apply to the police station near the protest zone. But he added that it was useless to apply anyway,” Mr Yan said.

Beijing has the petition system in place for people with unresolved complaints to come to Beijing and ask for help but leading up to the Olympics, rovincial governments have been under pressure to resolve more disputes locally and prevent large scale national events. Rather than letting the system take it’s course however, instead, local police and government officials wait in Beijing to mask their municipality’s incompetience and prevent complaints from being formalised at the state level.

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