Liuzhou + Harbin

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Linda Burum, The Find: Happy Kitchen in San Gabriel; Liuzhou meets Harbin in
a happy marriage of regional Chinese flavors. Los Angeles Times, Feb. 18,
2010.
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-find18-2010feb18,0,1606131.story

Note:
(a) Liuzhou 柳州市
(b) Liu River 柳江
(c) luosifen 螺蛳粉
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%9E%BA%E8%9B%B3%E7%B2%89
(柳州小吃; 柳州特有的软滑爽口的米粉，加上酸笋、木耳、花生、油炸腐竹、黄花菜
、鲜嫩青菜等配料及浓郁适度的酸辣味; 并不放螺蛳肉，之所以叫螺蛳粉，是因为它的
汤用螺蛳熬成)

桂林市 is on the eastern of 柳州市. Guangdong is to the southeast of both
cities. So the report is wrong to say, "Liuzhou's milder cuisine is closer
to the cooking of Guangdong to its west."

(d) poach (vt): "to cook in simmering liquid"  www.m-w.com

(e) "Liang says that after having been chef at this Liuzhou-style restaurant
for more than three years (and, prior to that, at other local restaurants),
he had the chance of realizing his dream of running his own place when the
owner decided to leave the business."

The sentence means that the current owner Liang, originally from Harbin, was
a hire hand in this restaurant whose previous owner taught Liang the
Liuzhou cooking method.

(f) At first glance, it appears the writer misspells "nappa cabbage."

(i) Napa cabbage 大白菜
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_cabbage

In the web, for the cabbage I have seen napa or Napa; the first letter "n"
is capitalized or not.

(ii) Then I came upon Answer.com.

"napa or nappa
n.
See Chinese cabbage

[Probably Japanese nappa, greens.]"
http://www.answers.com/topic/nappa

(iii) Jim Breen's online Japanese dictionary:

"菜っ葉; 菜葉 【なっぱ】 (n) (See 白菜, 青梗菜) greens; vegetable leaves;
leaf vegetable"

(g) cumin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumin
(h) tofu sheet/bean curd sheet 腐皮/腐竹 (We Cantonese use the latter)

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