http://foreignmind.com Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:07:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 武侯祠的边上新建了一条街叫锦里，是模仿老成都的样貌修的。今年国庆时回家走了走，确实还有些老成都的感觉。 成都代表性的建筑风格就是青石瓦房。 窄窄的街道，有点云南丽江的味道，连酒吧也取名叫四方街，最能体现成都人最赶潮流的心态。不过，皮影戏和老烟枪还是保留了老成都的味道。 http://foreignmind.com/2006/10/15/%e5%8d%b0%e8%b1%a1%e4%b8%ad%e7%9a%84%e8%80%81%e6%88%90%e9%83%bd/ 这次回成都，发现最最传统的成都风味小吃确实是大不如从前了。最令人失望的龙抄手、钟水饺和赖汤元，找遍全城，找不到当年令人垂涎的味道。究其原因，大概是因为老成都们已经不再追捧传统，而来成都访问的游客们又比较容易糊弄的缘故吧。但是我在陈麻婆豆腐的一席饭还是让我大快朵颐，忍不住把这些好吃拿来和大家分享一下。 最最正宗的麻婆豆腐：豆腐上的花椒面足以让你头皮发麻，但是这正是这道菜的妙处。 夫妻肺片：最正宗的吃法是肺片夹锅盔，类似陕西的肉夹馍 最好吃的宫保鸡丁：鲜香和麻辣的至尊级统一，连每个花生米都酥到了骨头里 还有的就是我热爱的凉粉、凉面和煮凉粉。所谓煮凉粉，就是用水把大米做成的色泽金黄、形似豆腐的、看似凉粉的东东煮过，然后加以佐料伴着吃，热乎乎，辣嘻嘻，冬天或阴雨天吃着是莫大的享受。阿姨身后那一摞摞的碗里就是煮凉粉了，凉粉在她身后的电饭锅了烫过后，加上她身前碗里各种佐料一拌，就成了美味可口的佳肴。 大快朵颐的样子： http://foreignmind.com/2006/10/15/%e6%88%90%e9%83%bd%e7%9a%84%e5%b0%8f%e5%90%83/ The Long Tail explains why the new internet era means comsuming less of more and why the 80/20 rule doesn't hold for a lot of goods distributed through the web. The forming of the long tail is dependant on three (3) conditions: the democratization of tools: e.g. the blogging tools made personal publishing easy and ... http://foreignmind.com/2006/10/12/the-long-tail/ One thing really cool in China is that some books can be bought at half the price or even cheaper than in the book stores in US. The book I am currently reading is Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. I bought it at Rmb 98 (about $13) at Shanghai Book City, while oreilly.com sells it ... http://foreignmind.com/2006/09/14/head-first-series/ Once moved to Shanghai, I noticed that time spent on commute becomes almost unbearable. Taxis are hard to find during peak hours and even if you are lucky to find one, the hours you could end up spending on roads could easily drive people crazy. The roads are usually a parking lot with cars coming ... http://foreignmind.com/2006/09/01/fall-in-love-to-audio-books/ I hate ads sent out by Focus Media. Their ads are like virus, sneaking in all my personal space. No matter I take a taxi or subway, no matter I step into the office building or my apartment, they always follow me. There are countless Chinese companies, willing to throw thousands to get their face time ... http://foreignmind.com/2006/08/28/ads-ads-anywhere/ Just relearned the solar system because Pluto was recently classified as "dwarf planet". And the news flew from newspapers to TV stations quite fast.  The inner solar system contains the sun（太阳）、Mercury(水星）、Venus（金星）、Earth（地球） and Mars（火星）。 The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter（木星）、Saturn（土星）、Uranus(冥王星） and Neptune（海王星）。 Pluto is classfied as dwarf planet now.   The textbooks in China for the ... http://foreignmind.com/2006/08/28/pluto-and-chinese-textbooks/ A friend once said that a life without fears must be a happy life. I can not agree more. http://foreignmind.com/2006/08/21/the-definition-for-a-happy-life/ 杭州知味观-味庄是西湖边上的老字号的饭店。甜点还是满招人喜欢的。 雪媚娘：是我看过最漂亮的点心之一，原来是用糯米、奶油和芒果粒做成的 西湖花港的锦鲤和接天的莲叶       http://foreignmind.com/2006/08/15/xihu/ Article 1:Gmarket Eclipses eBay in Asia Gmarket's growth momentum: For Gmarket, the first-quarter performance translated into revenues of $29.6 million, most of which came from transaction fees. That's about three times the sales performance of the year-ago period. In 2005, revenues from transaction fees, advertising, and other earnings totaled $59.3 million, ... http://foreignmind.com/2006/08/10/secrete-source-at-gmarket/