22 Jan 2011
China's Hottest Cuisine

Sichuan cooking, done right, is nothing short of wonderful. And we're lucky enough to have an excellent restaurant locally. It's just down the street from my office, and my colleagues and I hold a sort of informal software/hardware engineering lunch there every Wednesday. The buffet is awesome, and the price is right too - all you can eat plus tea for $6 and change.

Sichuan food is renowned for its intense, spicy flavors, owed to the liberal use of chili peppers, numbing Sichuan peppercorn, bean paste and garlic. Westerners are familiar with versions of some classic Sichuan (also spelled Szechuan) fare—think kung pao chicken. But the cuisine features some 5,000 dishes, the vast majority seldom tasted beyond China's borders.

(link) [Wall Street Journal]

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It's not just call centers in India anymore

This is gonna be interesting ...

Gaurav Sood is proud to work as a lawyer for some of Britain’s most prestigious companies. But he doesn’t live anywhere near London – or Britain for that matter. Mr. Sood lives more than a few countries away in one of India’s high-rise satellite cities, Gurgaon, located on the edge of New Delhi. There he works for CPA Global, an outsourcing company.

(link) [Christian Science Monitor]

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