I recently had the chance to visit Pier 39 in SF and to my surprise it was every bit as good as I read online. The pier is bright and full of activity. Bright lights everywhere, restaurants, souvenir shops,

The Pagoda is gone but all is not lost Just a few years ago, the China town of London was graced with a small market place in and around "Newport Place." It even had it's own Pagoda where people

We can reduce this a great deal by increasing cultural homogeneity - thereby making it as unimaginable for the US and China to go to war as it is for the US and Canada to go to war. ii) This way everyone

We should gradually move towards a world with only one culture for two main reasons: i) Inter-group conflict or cruelty is one of the great causes of human suffering, and a key threat to our collective

But the people who really have a legitimate beef about their portrayal are the Huns. It will be interesting to see how many of these issues recur in the live-action Mulan scheduled to come out soon. Lydia

This is customary for those regular hot pot eaters who know just how much "internal heat" can be built up after several rounds of hot pot food. A good anti-free-radical dose of greens and mild

Various meats are available from all the usual fishes, to premium grade beef, lamb, pork and best of all, you get to serve yourself at the sauce bar. Little do people know, you can actually have as much

You get to choose from a variety of soup bases and you can even choose multi-flavour pots. Have one, two or three pots in one and open up your mouth to all the different soup flavours on offer. My personal

The name is resonant with Chinese speakers because it literally means to scoop from the bottom of the sea and that is very close to what you actually do when you eat hotpot here. Indeed, the idea is to

Perhaps the other troops desert as soon as it looks like actual combat might occur (the unit is at its smallest during combat scenes). This is yet more evidence that the Chinese Imperial Army had a serious

What happened to the many thousands of other draftees? Did they all desert? Why does no one even try to find out? Perhaps the problem is that most of the other draftees were over-age and/or disabled (like

The rest of the fighting is done by troops who were already in the ranks (some are inexperienced, but they seem to have been around for some time already) when she arrives in camp (even though she comes

And he's not even actually competent at ANY of those jobs. Either the Empire has a shortage of bureaucrats, or Disney REALLY wanted to save on voice actor expenses! At the beginning of the film, the Emperor

The contrast, however, is that Mulan remains a loyal subject of the Chinese imperial state and never questions its horribly unjust policies (other than drafting her father). Katniss, of course, hates the

This is Haidilao. It's a hotpot chain that is one of the fastest growing food chains in China and it's making real headway in the west. Already with a couple of venues opened in the US and a new one opened

This is both cruel and stupid (as it ensures that the army will have lots of over-age and/or handicapped soldiers). Mulan is both a parallel and a contrast to Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games."

In before the new live-action Mulan is released in 2020. I've watched the cartoon version so many times and now the time has come for a political economy analysis of the film : Mulan surreptitiously joins

If you're travelling with friends, then these little villas can become a very attractive proposition because the cost divided between everyone becomes significantly cheaper than a hotel and there is often

Purpose built for renting out to visitors, these are lined all along the paths to the main beaches and are usually about a kilometer away from the actual beach front but retain a really pleasant view of

Supporting the local economy are a plethora of restaurants by the beach which each serve a healthy mixture of traditional Cretan and Greek food, as well as the more common foods known across all of the