LONDON Kensuke Shichida, the head of a centuries-old sake brewery in southern Japan, had spent a dizzying week in London restaurants tasting a variety of exotic and confounding dishes: pub food, gourmet burgers, French food, Angus beef, ceviche. 伦敦
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Kai Wang and her friends like to sniff out the latest regional Chinese restaurants: a tiny cafe in east London specialising in food from China's north-east, or one near London Bridge serving numbing and hot crayfish. Kai, 26, is a media professional
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The BBC visits New York's Chinatown for the new year celebrations to see how the community is changing 为进一步了解美国华人群体的变化，英国广播公司探访了纽约唐人街的新年庆祝活动。 Chinatowns are a feature of many
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Are you a normal person？ 你是正常人吗？ During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director ..., What is the criterion that defines a patient to be institutionalized? Well... said the director, we fill up a bathtub, and we offe
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Once there was a Brahmin who bought a goat in another village．When he carried it home on his shoulder，he was seen by three rogues，who said to one another，If by some contrivance that goat can be taken from him，it will be a great pleasure to
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A peacock，spreading its gorgeous plumage，mocked a cranethat passed by，ridiculing the ashen hue of its feathers，I am robed，like a king，in gold and purple，looking as splendid as the rainbow；while you have not a bit of colour on your win
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A wolf was eating his supper one day when a bone stuck in his throat．Choking and coughing，he howled about the countryside asking every animal he met to help him．There's a good reward for anyone who can save me，he spluttered．A crane heard ab
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A policeman noticed an old lady standing on a street corner during a sudden windstorm. She was bracing herself byholding a light post with one hand, and she was holding her hat snugly against her head with her other hand. Unfortunately, a strong gust
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Wrong Way 错误方向 As an old man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, Fred, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on Interstate 94. Please be carefu
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A Japanese company and an American company had a boat race, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans hired analysts to figure out what went wrong. They reported that the Japanese had one person managing and seven rowing, while the Americans had seve
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The Caterpillar The Caterpillar looked at Alice and said nothing. Perhaps it doesn't speak', Alice thought. But at last it did speak. Who are you? it asked. It was a hard question. Alice answered, but not very quickly: I--I don't know. I knew who I w
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A half-Indian woman was last Monday crowned Miss Japan, the second year in a row a biracial person has won the beauty pageant. 上周一，一名有着1/2印度血统的女性获得了日本小姐选美冠军，这是连续第二年混血儿在选美大
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A traveller who had visited Asia，Africa and Europe，at length，in making his tour through America，was overcome by heat，and lay tore pose under a tree．He had scarcely begun to doze when he was roused by a loud noise，of which he could not d
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For decades now, we've been wearing hair ties on our wrists. Not only is this the most convenient method, but it's also the only way we can keep ourselves from losing them otherwise, the darn things just disappear. 几十年来，我们经常把绑头发
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It's something that women do on a daily basis but did you know that the way you brush your hair could be ruining it? 梳头是女性们每天都做的事情，但是你知道你梳头的方式会伤发吗？ You may carefully select your shampoo and
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Honey, said this husband to his wife, I invited a friend home for supper.What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, I haven't been shopping, all the dishes are dirty, and I don't feel like cooking a fancy meal!I know all that.Then why did you invite a
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A guy was dating a girl named Lorraine. He knew that Lorraine was the ONE. She had all the qualities that he wanted in a woman. She was smart, funny, and beautiful. Then one day in the video store, he met a girl named Clearly. Now Clearly was beautif
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A friend of mine had been wanting new kitchen cabinets for a long time, but her husband insisted they were an extravagance. She went to visit her mother for two weeks, and when she returned, she was overjoyed to find that beautiful new cabinets had b
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When his wife was expecting their third child, a father decided to tell his two sons, ages seven and nine, the facts of life. He checked out several books from the library on how parents should approach the subject. After stumbling through an explana
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