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cast: shin eun-kyung; park jun gyu; jang se-jin; lee won-jong; jo mi-lyeong; shim won-cheol; choi eun-ju; kim in-kwon; choi jun-yong; hong su-ah; ju hyeon; kim yeong-ho; kim dong-wook; ryu hyeon-kyeong; ziyi zhang; sun woo-sun… synopsis: on a rooftop in the middle of a thick urban forest of skyscrapers, the mantis gang, living legends of the underworld, is engaged in a bloody battle with rival gang members. when things are looking very bad for the mantis gang, a deafening roar announces the arrival of a helicopter overhead. it’s cha eun-jin, the woman who conquered the male-dominated realm with only a pair of her lethal scissors. however, eun-jin is attacked by an opponent and falls off the rooftop. she survives but sustains serious head injuries and remembers nothing of her past. she is discovered by jae-chul, a chinese restaurant cook, and ends up delivering food on a scooter for “fusion chinese restaurant shu”. having forgotten that she was a born fighter, eun-jin lives a peaceful life while various men like “moneylender koh” and “girl love” vie for her affections. by chance, she thwarts a bank robbery and is honored with a “brave citizen award”. unfortunately, this reveals her whereabouts to the white sharks, who have been eagerly waiting for their chance for revenge. they team up with some loan sharks who have been looking to develop the marketplace area to back eun-jin into a corner. she has no alternative but to risk her life once again in a bloody war with her …

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For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ me.lt There’s something big cooking in China. The world’s largest hotpot was in full operation over the weekend, giving onlookers a look and taste of the action. In Chongqing, China, the Guinness Record for the largest hotpot returns to Chongqing’s International Food Festival. Thousands of spectators came to see the big scene. At 33 feet in diameter, three feet deep, this hotpot has been the biggest in the world since 1999. The Yin-Yang shape separates the spicy and non-spicy broths. Dezhuang Restaurant organized the event and supplied the food. It’s one of the largest hotpot places in Chongqing. [Zhou Hong, General Manager, Dezhuang Industrial Group]: “We have enough dishes to meet the demands of citizens. We have four kinds of meat and four kinds of vegetables for each dinner. For the average person, it is definitely enough.” Crowds of onlookers bought tickets for the hotpot buffet. [Zhou Hong, General Manager, Dezhuang Industrial Group]: “We planned to sell tickets in the afternoon, but there were so many spectators. So we started a trial sale. It exceeded our expectations. We sold more than 1000 tickets within just one hour.” It’s likely to be the only hotpot in the world big enough to feed a thousand.

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KoeKoe Shrimp

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The presentation wasn’t as majestic as before due to the lack of the veggie bed that was in the previous version. This is not what normal customers should expect, as this was a *comp* from the kitchen that was added very last minute when Chef Li swung by and asked how things were. Apparently it came out before he had the chance to check it, but we declined his offer to bring back another as we were nearing fullness as it was.

Ethereal, delicate, sweet and flaky.

A shower of lacy fried fresh shredded coconut mixed with equally aromatic julienne of Thai bail leaf over sweet, just tender gulf shrimp, on a bed of cool shredded cucumber and carrots. The raw vegetables provided a nice temperature and texture (as in length) contrast to the crumbly topping. Meanwhile hidden chew of the fresh coconut strips beneath their tempura-like crispy batter was such a treat when paired against the meaty shrimp. I found the topping reminding me of phoenix rolls (which I do enjoy eating very much – think rectangular/envelope shaped tuile cookie filled with shredded coconut, sugar and sesame seeds – do I hear a mmmm?), one of the few coconut laced items I actually enjoy… a lot.

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Thai Fest Ottawa was brought to you by the Royal Thai Embassy, the Visible Minority Committee, Foreign Affair&International Trade Canada, Toronto Dance Troupe, Thai Airways Angels, Ottawa Academy of Martial Arts(OAMA),SukhoThai Restaurant, Green Papaya Restaurant, Khao Thai Restaurant, friends…

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Beef Panang

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Crusted beef (brisket), bell peppers, peanuts, sweet Asian basil, lime leaf, coconut milk, Thai Panang curry sauce.

Just because it is a standout dish. I think JL liked it.

Ken Hom’s travels takes him to Bangkok in search of new recipes which utilise a fusion of Western and Asian cooking techniques. Recipes include a 2 Minute Coconut & Prawn Starter, Stir Fried Spicy Lemongrass & Vegetables, Stir Fried Thai Green Curry with Aubergines & Chicken, Herbal Vegetarian Fried Rice and finally Crackling Rice Paper Asparagus Spring Rolls. Part 2 of 2.

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Call: 9830573184, We introduce ourselves as THE DINERS Food, Quality Caterer for Marraige & other Occasions (Kolkata), providing Full Catering with first class service. We are specialised on Bengali items, Indian foods, Biriyani and Chaaps, and can also provide Chinese food as well. Mobile No: 9830573184 Rates Starts from Rs 95 to Rs 250 per head (Depending on the Menu) We Also Provide Corporate Lunch Supplies (Daily Basis) at various Offices, with various combination. Rates are between Rs 25 to Rs 50 per head. Phone: 9830573184 We prefer quality more than anything and that’s what we are more praised about, we also keep a very nominal rate so that we can reach out more customers, contact us to know more details about us THE DINERS FOOD and our wide range of services. Phone no : 9830573184 email : thediners@rediffmail.com

Winnipeg

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Travellers Building – 283 Bannatyne Avenue – Architects Darling and Pearson

The Travellers Building, at the corner of Bannatyne Avenue and King Streets, was built in 1906-07 for the North West Commercial Travellers Association. It housed their offices, meeting rooms, lounges and recreation facilities, including a Turkish bath.

This was a national organization, founded in Winnipeg in 1882. It acted as a protective union for its members who were traveling salesmen working for the head offices and warehouses of dozens of supply industries located in Winnipeg’s warehouse district. This North West Commercial Travellers Association grew to include 2,000 members by 1906 providing accident policies, insurance and reduced train and hotel rates for its members. The group still exists.

The building is six storeys high, built of reinforced concrete with an exterior of deep red brick. Darling and Pearson, a prestigious firm of Toronto architects, designed the structure, which was built at a cost of 5,000. The Association offices were on the second. Third and fourth storeys were rented office space, and show rooms on the sixth floor. The building was finished with a handsome stone archway at the entrance. The Main floor was done in marble finishing and dark oak woodwork.
In 1954, the federal government made some alterations to the building to house the office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission and the Health and Welfare Department. In 1976, it was redeveloped to become a vertical shopping center with a series of specialty shops, galleries and restaurants.

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Spectacular 2 bedroom plus den unit for lease at the Festival Towers in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment district on the corner of King Street West and John Street. This unit comes with hardwood floors, Miele kitchen appliances, stone countertops, designer kitchens, 2 bathrooms, lots of storage, parking, balcony with a south facing view with lake views and city views Building amenities include, indoor pool, hot tub, spa, outdoor deck, sunbathing deck, yoga room, exercise room, guest suites, party room, bar, billiards room, theater room, restaurant, maid service, valet parking, 24 hour concierge.

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Winnipeg

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Travellers Building – 283 Bannatyne Avenue – Architects Darling and Pearson

The Travellers Building, at the corner of Bannatyne Avenue and King Streets, was built in 1906-07 for the North West Commercial Travellers Association. It housed their offices, meeting rooms, lounges and recreation facilities, including a Turkish bath.

This was a national organization, founded in Winnipeg in 1882. It acted as a protective union for its members who were traveling salesmen working for the head offices and warehouses of dozens of supply industries located in Winnipeg’s warehouse district. This North West Commercial Travellers Association grew to include 2,000 members by 1906 providing accident policies, insurance and reduced train and hotel rates for its members. The group still exists.

The building is six storeys high, built of reinforced concrete with an exterior of deep red brick. Darling and Pearson, a prestigious firm of Toronto architects, designed the structure, which was built at a cost of 5,000. The Association offices were on the second. Third and fourth storeys were rented office space, and show rooms on the sixth floor. The building was finished with a handsome stone archway at the entrance. The Main floor was done in marble finishing and dark oak woodwork.
In 1954, the federal government made some alterations to the building to house the office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission and the Health and Welfare Department. In 1976, it was redeveloped to become a vertical shopping center with a series of specialty shops, galleries and restaurants.

Here is a short tribute to THE ORIENTAL PALACE CHINESE BUFFET at Warren Village shopping center in Cleveland, Ohio. Thanks for watching!

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Chef’s 28-Day Aged AAA Beef Tenderloin

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a 9 oz. portion for CT and I to share… although we both did admit not-so-secretly that we would have been happier to have our own. Nice seared peppercorn crust surronding a rare-medium rare thick cut of juicy and tender beef. Although the beef didn’t need the Thai steak sauce that was served in the accompanying bowl (Chef Li knows my pref very well – his steak is amazing not drenched) actually rounded out the flavours more and heightened the sweet beef flavours in the tenderloin. Chef Li also prepared a vast pile of vegetables to side our steak as per our request (it was an eating weekend, but every so often we have to think of our health).

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One item that cannot miss from any travel itinerary in Toronto is a visit to Chinatown and Kensington. After a long day of work on August 7, 2008 I met my European visitors downtown in front of the CHUM City Building (home of City TV). We walked westwards along the funky stores of Queen Street West and headed north on Spadina where we took in the sights of Toronto’s Fashion District. North of Dundas the flavour turned decidedly Oriental as we entered Chinatown. Colourful merchandise, fragrant fruits, the smells of seafood and the hustle and bustle of people shopping and strolling assaulted our senses. As always, we were fascinated by the various forms of fried fowl that were hanging in the store windows, naturally with heads and feet still attached. A few streets north of Spadina we headed west to check out the eclectic collection of restaurants, funky stores and multicultural food emporiums that makes up Kensington Market. One of Toronto’s oldest and most colourful neighbourhoods, the former “Jewish Market” is a National Historic Site today. Almost 60000 Jewish residents lived here in the 1920s and 1930s and worshipped at more than 30 synagogues. After World War II most of the Jewish population relocated further north, and additional waves of diverse immigrant groups moved in. Today, people from the Caribbean, East Asia, the Azores and Latin America are well represented here and the colourful mix of restaurants and stores reflects these diverse origins. We strolled back …

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Close Up: Bold and Beautiful

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9 oz. 28-day aged AAA tenderloin that CT and I shared… although we both did admit not-so-secretly that we would have been happier to have our own. Nice seared peppercorn crust surronding a rare-medium rare thick cut of juicy and tender beef. Although the beef didn’t need the Thai steak sauce that was served in the accompanying bowl (Chef Li knows my pref very well – his steak is amazing not drenched) actually rounded out the flavours more and heightened the sweet beef flavours in the tenderloin. Chef Li also prepared a vast pile of vegetables to side our steak as per our request (it was an eating weekend, but every so often we have to think of our health).

www.Hoteloogle.com – Harmondsworth Hall in West Drayton is a large 17th century grade II listed building, with charming character, set in a small peaceful village with two pubs and a 12th century church, which is mentioned in the doomsday book. All 12 bedrooms have en suite bathrooms, even the two single bedrooms. In each room there is a television, tea and coffee making facilities and a telephone which can be used to make direct dial calls to outside lines, both national and international. Guests who bring their own laptop computers can connect to broadband internet using either a wired or wireless connection. This is available free of charge in every bedroom. For those guests who do not have a laptop, there is an internet connected computer in the guest lounge available to all, this is also free of charge. Guests can use the computer in the lounge to check-in for flights and then print out their boarding passes. All room rates quoted are inclusive of breakfast. Our breakfast room is equipped with an espresso coffee machine and water cooler. Guest can help themselves to coffee, orange juice and a wide selection of cereals before having a full English breakfast accompanied by fresh toast. We offer a limited room service until 9pm for light snack and drinks. However most guests choose one of the two village pubs for dinner. Alternatively, a good 10 – 15 min walk away, there is both a high quality Chinese restaurant and a McDonald’s restaurant which has a garden. There are …

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Chef Michael Smith

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Very tall and personable. He is very much like how he is on camera – friendly, warm and like a mentor – which is comforting to know. Not one to be fawning over (Canadian) celebrity chefs, I found my self feeling proud that such a genuinely nice guy made it for the right reasons.

Read more about it here: www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/aprons-icons/2010/06…

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www.thewineladies.com Celebrity Chef Massimo Capra charmed his fans at Saturday’s 100 Mile Mash Up. Got to get me one of his books One Pot Italian Cooking. That’s my kinda cooking Massimo! Chef Massimo judged the 1st annual 100 Mile Mash Up in downtown Oakville featuring 6 local top restaurants.

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Cigarette girl and boy serving chocolates

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40s glam was the name of the game from Chris McDonald’s XOCOCAVA. Really loved the classy touches conjured up by the chef.

More here: www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/aprons-icons/2010/06…

XOCOCAVA
1560 Yonge Street
(416) 979-9916

NYC – Brooklyn – Sheepshead Bay: Randazzo’s Clam Bar

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The history and conception of Randazzo’s Clam Bar can be dated back to 1916, when Helen Randazzo’s father started out in the fish distribution business. Over the years, Helen’s father caught and sold fish all across the waters, from bay to bay. In 1960, Helen created her world famous tomato sauce, and in turn opened the first Clam Bar in Sheepshead Bay. Throughout the years, the success of the Randazzo name inspired the opening of an additional location which was bigger and better then the original. In 1994, Randazzo’s closed its doors to their adjacent location. And in doing so, this added more dishes to the magnificent menu you find at Randazzo’s today.

With over 75 years as being the "Pride of Sheepshead Bay", Randazzo’s was picked by AOL Cityguide as the city’s best seafood, and named by the Village Voice for the city’s "best use of lobster"

KVD Square bill crank baits putting in work.

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Dun Laoghaire

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Boasting one of the worlds finest harbours, Dún Laoghaire takes it’s name form the great King Laoire who in 480A.D. maintained a great "Dún" or stone fort in the centre of the town. The ancient fort was demolished in 1803 to make way for the building of a Martello tower which in turn was replaced in 1834 by the first suburban railway in the world. King Laoire’s large garrison ensured that the Romans would think twice about invading Ireland from the Saxon shores. Some say that Patrick the boy shepherd arrived at Dún Laoghaire as a slave, it was the same Patrick who returned in 432A.D. to face King Laoghaire and who subsequently destroyed his ancient Druid order. Traces of this order can still be found in Dún Laoghaire and the neighbouring village of Dalkey. Both towns are closely linked for it was the granite from Dalkey Hill that built Dún Laoghaire harbour in 1817.

The decision to build a harbour in what was until 1817 a small fishing village came about as entry into the River Liffey was becoming more and more difficult, with ships having to wait days before they could berth and off load their cargo. The amount of shipwrecks was also becoming unacceptable, literally hundreds per year being wrecked off the coast of Blackrock and Monkstown with thousand of lives lost, which eventually led to the setting up of the lifeboat station in 1803.

So it was in 1817 that the Earl of Whitworth laid the first foundation stone of the pier designed by John Renny. Designed to be a port of refuge away from the fierce Irish Sea where large ships could berth safely it would have worked had the Earl not insisted that the entrance to the harbour be widened to accommodate the Admiral’s fleet. This widening of the harbour also accommodated the silt from the surrounding shoreline which washed in and made it impossible for the larger ships to enter safely as planned. Despite this the Mailboat operated out of DúnLaoghaire successfully carrying cargo, passengers and of course, Mail.

This now thriving port prompted the building of a railway to link the southside of Dublin to the City. Churches, schools and shops had sprung up to accommodate the needs of the labourers and their families working on the construction of the harbour and then the railway, transforming the fishing village of Dún Laoghaire into a prosperous town that catered for the day trippers who would come from all over Dublin to enjoy the shopping and entertainment that the markets, the bandstand and the pavilion provided. Now nearing the 21st Century, Dún Laoghaire stills provides excellent shopping value and entertainment, with plenty of pubs, clubs and restaurants to choose from.

Today in Dún Laoghaire, people still enjoy a stroll along the "Prom", and then down the Pier. Stopping off at Teddy’s for a Ninety Nine on the way home. During your visit you can enjoy anything your heart desires. Dún Laoghaire has a Wide Range of Activities for everyone, old and young. With the Harbour the center piece of the town, you can be assured of a wide and varied selection of water sports and to choose from. Whether it’s speeding through the waves of Dublin Bay and dancing the night away until the wee hours of the morning, strolling through the hills, horse riding, fishing or just taking it easy, Dún Laoghaire has everything on offer. It is also the ideal place to base yourself if your planning a visit to Dublin, or the rest of Ireland. The Tourist Office is at the bottom of Marine Road, by the Harbour.