Hanoi + Honeymoon Alone in Venice + Greetings

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(1) BBC 利特海德, 记者来鸿：从天价大碗面看越南社会主义. BBC Chinese, Feb 18, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/02/110218_fooc_vietnamnoodle.shtml

, which is translated from

Alastair Leithead, Communist Vietnam's $35 bowl of noodle soup. BBC, Jan 21, 2011.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9367223.stm

Note:
(a) gawp (vi; English dialect gawp to yawn, gape): "chiefly British GAWK"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com except otherwise identified.
(b) The report mentioned "a preserved and somewhat waxy-looking man."

Ho Chi Minh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh
(Hồ Chí Minh's embalmed body is on display in a granite mausoleum modeled after Lenin's Tomb in Moscow)
(c) Phở
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F
(rice noodle; section 1 History)  
(d) A restaurant owner in the report boasted "how much the rich are willing to stump up to slurp down Vietnam's priciest soup."

stump (vi): "to walk heavily or clumsily"
(e) minder (n): "Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination): a baby-minder"   Random House Dictionary, 2011.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/minder
(f) bonnet (n): "a British : an automobile hood"

Originally:
bonnet (headgear)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_(headgear)
(g) gnarled (adj): "CRABBY, CANTANKEROUS"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gnarled


(2) Jennifer Belle, My Perfect Honeymoon (That I Spent Alone). Wall Street Journal, Feb 19, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703786804576138650128293260.html

Note:
(a) water taxi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_taxi
(b) cannelloni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannelloni
(c) bellini (cocktail)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellini_(cocktail)
(d) Hava Nagila
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila
(e) San Marco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marco
(one of the six sestieri [district] of Venice, lying in the heart of the city)
(f) The "journal" is identical to a "diary."
(g) quince
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince
(h)Peggy Guggenheim Collection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Guggenheim_Collection
(Peggy is a niece of [American] mining magnate Solomon R. Guggenheim)
(i) trousseau (n; Old French, diminutive of trousse bundle): "the personal possessions of a bride usually including clothes, accessories, and household linens and wares"
(j) Amalfi Coast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalfi_Coast

* Amalfi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalfi
(a town and comune)



(3) Monika Anderson, How To: Properly Greet People Around the World; Avoid an international incident by knowing when to bow, when to kiss and when to shake.Wall Street Journal, Feb 19, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657104576142570439577358.html

My comment:
(a) Namaste
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste
(section 1 Pronunciation and etymology)
(b) bowing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowing
(section 3 Bowing in Mainland China)

An American once quizzically observed to me that Chinese from PRC seldom bowed, compared with Taiwanese, Japanese or Koreans.

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