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Sun-Protective Clothing: A Guide {Stylelist (Main)}
Jun 8th 2011 7:34PM MOTT 50 is also all made in Cina!
Why can't we patronize our own industries at this time in history??
Shame on us.
Sun-Protective Clothing: A Guide {Stylelist (Main)}
Jun 8th 2011 7:24PM This is how America loses its money - Uniqlo is a Japanese company, and it will need to profit from these sun-retarding garments - which, you will see if you check the labels are all made in China.
Let's find American companies who offer these kind of clothes - we have HUGE trade deficits as it is wuth both China and Japan. Thwey never buy from us as much as they sell to us and the money never returns here. Bad business for the US. So forget Uniqlo if you're worried about the economy - and now who isn't ?
Where They Ate: Authors, Eaters, and Food and Travel Writers Tell Their Favorite Eating Experiences of 2010 {Gadling}
Dec 25th 2010 9:28PM In 2011, I can't imagine anyone recommending any kind of Japanese food as some sort of magical "to-discover" epicurean secret. It's all so fake and precious, and tastewise - comment dit? low key -- and far too frequently presented in a way we are almost obliged to gasp quietly at how finnicky and precisely it's beeen produced and arranged on the plates. Japanese food in general is sooooo over as a discovery - really now, is it not?
As for Korean, I've lived in the Far East for 46 years and the very worst Asian food I've ever eaten was in Seoul, constantly, regrettably, with the glop they serve in Manila following in second place. Burma comes in third place, unless you are fond of tripe.
In Hanoi, I'd suggest starting your discoveries of authentic Vietnamese food from the wonderously proletariat and endless selections at Quán ăn Ngon.
In Tokyo, where the collossal chutzpah of those cheeky Michelin people astounds with their myopic recommendations - to the Japanese, of all people - of good Japanese food, the French epicures in the know save up their yen and book tables at the flawless and plush Les Saisons in the 120 year old Imperial Hotel.
In Luang Prabang (talk about an overrated destination), I suggest Indian food, at either of the two Indian holes in the wall you'll find if you ask around. Fabulous.
