Joe,

Haha! I know what you mean. I lived in China for a while and the cooking there 
is radically different to how the Chinese cook for western tastes. "Would you 
like a little rice with your oil?"..

Mike 

--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote:
>
> Mike,
> 
> Hell of a bargain.  And I bet you get a Crossword, to boot.
> 
> But no comparison to my two kinds of Chicken, and pure steamed rice.  I don't 
> have these lunches often, because they are too savory.  If I were in China or 
> Taiwan, I'd fall in with the rest and eat this way all the time.  Usually I 
> prefer my own cooking: the restaurant uses lots more oil than needed in the 
> wok, and more than I do.  It's like the Exxon Valdez.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> > "mike" <uerusuboyo@> wrote:
> >
> > Joe, 
> > 
> > Same thing at Goenka's Vipassana retreats, but these two examples are 
> > nothing to do with the commercialisation of the dharma and are everything 
> > to do with mindfulness. The students at the school I mentioned had been 
> > allowed to record the talks for the previous 20 years. Commercial interests 
> > changed the practice - not the method of practice.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 8 bucks, eh? I pay a buck for my local paper and can read not just my 
> > fortune (Horoscope), but the fortunes of everyone on the planet. How's that 
> > for a bargain?
>




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