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Info: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qixi_Festival">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qixi_Festival</a> <img src="http://news.xinhuanet.com/comments/2008-08/08/xin_422080507162748416191.jpg" alt="" />

IKKO has another restaurant in Torrance. Reservations is highly recommended at the Costa Mesa restaurant. The location can be hard to find, it's in a plaza with an adult toys store (cough).

Lotto winner names are public record in most states. The theory is that everyone who bought the lotto tickets has a right to know where the money went. I buy lotto tickets once in a while. If I won the big jackpot, I'd pack up and go travel abroad for couple of years. The money would be...

When flying economy on China Airlines, bring your own food. Just buy some lunch breads and pack it with you on the plane. The seafood flavored instant noodle cup from China Airlines is still good. If you're flying Business Class the food is better and more acceptable. I've flown 3...

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The shaved ice there is good (large portions). I like the mango shaved ice. I don't like their hot food dishes as much.

>_> I'm in Taipei right now but, due to recent typhoon, it's really not a good time to travel around the island right now.

In some parts of Asia it's not uncommon to see kathoeys (Thai lady-boys). Walk around Orchid Rd in Singapore at night and you'd spot small groups of them walking around. There's been a few high profile TG celebrities in South Korea in recent years. You can google um... "Choi Han Bit" for...

Excellent Cast Iron pot article: http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/clay118.html

They use nutella for the crepes, very good! I'm less impressed with some of the restaurants in Diamond Jamboree. The Thai place is... ugh.

Tumbleweed homes used to sell completed houses and have them shipped to your location. I think they've scaled down their operation in recent years to fewer floor plans and just selling the plans. I've always liked their minimalist lifestyle ideology. A good magazine to read is Backwoods...

I recall back in the 1990's, you could still easily get Taiwanese food at the Ranch 99 (Culver) food court, plus "Nice Time Deli" and couple other places. By the time that Ah-chung noodle came and went, everything went downhill. Someone wrote an article on the "large" selection of Taiwanese...

(whisper) For wolf3d fans, new Wolfenstein game will be released this month.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090810x1.html Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 13 dead, 10 missing as typhoon unloads Hyogo, Tokushima, Okayama lashed hard by torrential rains Kyodo News Typhoon Etau, packing winds of up to 108 kph, brought torrential rains, floods and...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090810/ap_on_re_as/as_asia_storm; Mudslide buries 100s in Taiwan mountain village By ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press Writer Annie Huang, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 20 mins ago TAIPEI, Taiwan ? A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in...

I'm in Taipei and it's mostly OK here, but the Southern parts of Taiwan is not doing well. The floods washed away roads, buildings, bridges, etc. About a dozen confirmed fatalities and couple dozen missing. I heard 4 villages were either washed away or buried in mud slide. Despite frequent...