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@Wally: I don't know if it's legal (sending to US) but I know it works, at least if sent by a particular travel organization in Hong Kong.

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@yankee: I think you're a bit over-concerned about it. Would you EAT in McDonalds or KFC, what with all them germs? I wouldn't and almost never do, but it's got nothing to do with germs. Where WOULD you eat &/or play computers?
@ Chris: interesting issues about big corporations & why they succeed, but they'd go too far away from this topic, perhaps.

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Not sufficient, but it helps: carpets. I'm always surprised that so many apartments of Chinese friends do not have carpets - one reason is perhaps that people don't take off their shoes & wear slippers in the house, so that carpets get dirty easily. Tatamis in Japan and carpets in the middle east and central asia, where people take off their shoes in the house - cleaner, more practical, more comfortable and more insulating. Perhaps westerners & Chinese can both learn something - I don't think this amounts to cultural destruction or dominance or imperialism or anything like it - just a good idea. Good carpets are also a bit more attractive than concrete floors.

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Nice article, Ginger, and on a subject that one might not think about until, once one does, it's obvious that it should be explored.
The point about foreigners particularly applies, as you indicate, to people from milk-product-using 'western' countries and, as you indicate, it is one picked up in some southeast Asian countries as well - but foreigners from other areas will be pegged also (e.g., South Asians who use many different 'curry' spices, etc., that are not used so much in China).
And then there is the widespread smell of tobacco, noticeable primarily by those foreigners who don't use it. Baijiu has a particular smell also.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.