Dan R

OK after reading the precautions and considering thtat the cabinets are painted pressed board and the wall paintered plaster wont this remove everything mentioned along with the grease? By the way if you eat formed sandwich meats or chicken or shrimp at most any chain restaurants you are consuming this stuff. Well, uh, yes! But unless you're cooking on those surfaces, doesn't just plain old window cleaner or soap work? Not in a wok kitchen! I wish I had my own place so I could put in one of those Chinese type high power filter exhaust fans.

TSP - TriSodiumPhosphate Any hardware store will carry it. Really???!!!!!! I've got sacks of the stuff at work. It is one of the main additives used in processed foods. How do I use it? Make a paste or watery solution? For severe cases of baked on grease, Easy Off oven cleaner. OK after reading the precautions and considering thtat the cabinets are painted pressed board and the wall paintered plaster wont this remove everything mentioned along with the grease? By the way if you eat formed sandwich meats or chicken or shrimp at most any chain restaurants you are consuming this stuff.

TSP - TriSodiumPhosphate Any hardware store will carry it. Really???!!!!!! I've got sacks of the stuff at work. It is one of the main additives used in processed foods. How do I use it? Make a paste or watery solution?

In reference to #6 on the list has anyone found anything that will take the grease off the kitchen wall and cabinets next to the stove? Chinese and Jews have over a thousand year history of relationship. Even with the political division between China and Israel there are continuing ventures between the two. Looking at the list it is easy to understand. Is there anyone here that doesn't like Congee with pitan for breakfast? Or didn't get hungry thinking about whole salty fried shrimp while reading it?

Surely this is not simply a Chinese trait. www.fatwallet.com www.slickdeals.net American sites displaying for the world just how cheap and stingy some Americans are. BTW, I frequent those two sites everyday looking for CHEAP deals! gee if it wasn't at manufacturer's cost less 10% I'd be embarassed to admit I couldn't find it cheaper. Now if you go to the back door of the warehouse and nock two times a balding short guy answering to Uncle Harry will answer. Tell him Dan sent you. Oh be sure to have cash.

Seems simple if you go for a walk and someone comes up and starts speaking Chinese to you (outside China of course) then you must appear Chinese to others.

Taiwanese are now a minority out numbered by Mainland Chinese in the cities east of L.A.. The cities of Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Arcadia, Temple City and Hacienda Heights all have over 35% Chinese population. If you add in the older Japanese population together they are over 50% of each city. Diamond Bar is now heavily Korean.

I wonder how they got around the gas restrictions. This is what stopped them from opening when they did the initial inquiries. Maybe that is still stopping them from going to GZ. It may also be why the different format so they can have a presence in China.

Teavana has some interesting tea makers. This one of the one cup makers http://www.teavana.com/Tea+Makers+Infusers...op.axd/Products http://www.teavana.com/images/catalog/268-191/53619.jpg

MY GOD DAN YOU BOIL THE TEA... Please don't ruin tea by using water at the WRONG temp... Green tea is NOT boiled nor is it made with boiling water... http://www.holymtn.com/tea/brew.htm Well it tastes good. What more do you want? Are you telling me you put a thermometer in the pot and pull it off the burner as it reaches optimum temperature? Exactly... Of course I do run a lab and have all the goodies... Okay, okay I do hate to be a snob about it and I never realized it made such a big diffrenece until I brought white tea back from China...I boiled the water poured it into my Yixing teapot, steeped it for "awhile" and voila... about the worst thing I ever tasted emerged... I just made a cup here in my lab...heated the water to 75 C and then steeped for 2 min 45 sec...It is a rare and delicious treat...so it can make a BIG difference with the more delicate teas... Do you know what an up roar there would be in my house if I made such a production about the tea in the evening when we are supposed to be relaxing? I grant you that some teas do need special care. So now you have a practical application for the work lab. Maybe you could have a contest at work to see who can make the perfect brew (tea that is). Dan I am the lab... I thought you had an assistant that covers when you are in China. What did you do with him?

MY GOD DAN YOU BOIL THE TEA... Please don't ruin tea by using water at the WRONG temp... Green tea is NOT boiled nor is it made with boiling water... http://www.holymtn.com/tea/brew.htm Well it tastes good. What more do you want? Are you telling me you put a thermometer in the pot and pull it off the burner as it reaches optimum temperature? Exactly... Of course I do run a lab and have all the goodies... Okay, okay I do hate to be a snob about it and I never realized it made such a big diffrenece until I brought white tea back from China...I boiled the water poured it into my Yixing teapot, steeped it for "awhile" and voila... about the worst thing I ever tasted emerged... I just made a cup here in my lab...heated the water to 75 C and then steeped for 2 min 45 sec...It is a rare and delicious treat...so it can make a BIG difference with the more delicate teas... Do you know what an up roar there would be in my house if I made such a production about the tea in the evening when we are supposed to be relaxing? I grant you that some teas do need special care. So now you have a practical application for the work lab. Maybe you could have a contest at work to see who can make the perfect brew (tea that is).

MY GOD DAN YOU BOIL THE TEA... Please don't ruin tea by using water at the WRONG temp... Green tea is NOT boiled nor is it made with boiling water... http://www.holymtn.com/tea/brew.htm Well it tastes good. What more do you want? Are you telling me you put a thermometer in the pot and pull it off the burner as it reaches optimum temperature?

The three piece tea pots are available in the L.A. area at some Asian groceries and home supply stores. The Koreatown Tea Houses oftrn use them in various styles. They come in sizes making 1 to 4 cups. The prices range from $7.00 to $24.00. My Taiji Teapot from Yafeng Co. was $7 at the Asia Expo in Pomona (A two day discount fair for Chinese). It holds 1200ML. The thing I don't like about it is cleaning out the delicate screen that holds the tea. The easiest way is still to put leaves in a pot of water, bring to boil, turn off and steep. Then pour into cups. My wife and friends think it is funny that I am concerned about keeping the leaves out of the cup.

I get that Tony. Mine can't understand why I keep the antique collection. "It is old, you no use. Throw away". But it is valuable. "Then sell it, no need."

Yup that's one of my favorite teas. It varies quite a bit by age and maker though. The good ones are like fine wine and can't be beat.

Those translation programs can do some pretty weird interpretations. To test a program translate something then do it again back to the original language. See how close it gets.

Friends told me foreigners could buy a home in their name as long as it is their primary domicile and not investment property. Anything to this? This applied to a relative of theirs. But they are originally Chinese citizens now with Canadian and U.S. citizenship. But they said it applies to foreigners. The main concern of the Chinese government is to try and control real estate investment and speculation like Roger has done from abroad.

Hi and welcome as a poster in CFL. I am curious as to why you would be concerned about death at this time. Laws change as well as the requirements for wills. What happens to a dead body of an American citizen in China will largely depend on the politics at the time and situation of death. The Consulates get involved if they are notified. A long term resident of China with instructions for their internment (which was prepaid and cleared) and a living spouse would be a very different situation than one who was in a fatal accident three months after arrival which killed the spouse and left no written instructions. With no instructions and an American passport on the body it would be turned over to the Consulate. Death certificates are issued in the country of death unless the Consulate has reason to immediately claim the body. Actually in such cases usually there will be two certificates. Whatever your wishes are for your corpse, they may or may not be carried out depending on the situation of death and how thoroughly you yourself planned for the event. This is true anywhere in the world including in your American hometown. My wife and I prefer cremation. This can be performed in any country we die in with no need for transportation. The ashes if one of us survives would go to the spouse. Otherwise hers would go to her home and mine to my daughter. This instruction will need to be carried on us if it is to be followed. Remember also that whatever the law is in China it is applied and enforced differently in different cities and provinces. Now an interesting aside would be what happens to an American whose wife dies while he is living in a home in her name? Add to this what would happen if he has lived there long enough to have nowhere else to go. If a permanent resident I would think they could keep their status. As a WTO member China would need to address this type of inheritance. A good first time question as it touches on so many legal issues. Perhaps we might hear from one of our attorney members on this. How about it King, TonyontheRock or Jgrier? Anyone have the scoop? (We already know Roger has a good connection, from his earlier snafu, with powers that be. This should allow him to have his dead body treated however he likes. Now in Tibet they take it up on a mountain, hack it up and leave it for carrion birds.)

A lot of territory to cover David. I think the Mongolian Empire (Yuan Dynastic Period) is given a bad review usually. They ruled more of the world for longer than anyone else. The "Pax Mongolia" allowed for Marco Polo's family and others to trade from Europe to China. The American pony express was modeled on their postal system. My People were the laborers building the Pyramids you mention in the prehistory period. It is said if we don't know history we are doomed to repeat it. Knowing it doesn't seem to get us much closer to getting it right. China certainly has an amazing past. As it flexes its influence in the world tthe future may be even more interesting. But for now I am here.

If she said she is 30 using traditional counting she would have been born in 1977 and the year of the snake is correct. At birth Chinese count the child as one year old.

And you are where??? -James Only 72 It was 80 here today. I may have to reconsider moving to a frigid region.

The real problem is few stories are publicized and this exists world wide. Some is with government blessings and some without. After Mad Cow was discovered, and the practise of using Sheep byproducts as feed for cattle was outlawed, farmers in the U.S. & England continued to use it because it was so darn cheap. Man is the only creature smart enough to make the world better for all, but greedy enough to destroy it for hisself,

I think the China service they are on and where they are may have an effect. Ours works fine throughout DongBeiBu. Gets frequent use3 mostly calling there but also calling to us. A few times had to call back for a clearer line but not nearly as often as when we used a landline with calling cards.

Roger are you going to raise geese when you move there? It seems to be a local custom. Would be a great supplementary income.

Darn Roger, I just checked virtualtourist and no one has entered anything on Qionghai! Here's the link http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/...e-Qionghai.html Be the first!