Bootlegging isn’t only a China thing
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/11/police-probe-unfaithful-tiger-woods-energy-drink-label-prank-115875-21958850
Police in America were today investigating how a batch of bootleg energy drinks with labels poking fun at Tiger Woods’ “indiscretions” had hit supermarket shelves.
Shoppers in Safeway and King Soopers stores across Denver last week began noticing hundreds bottles of energy drink Gatorade had been tampered with.
The bottles [...]
Siuyeh.com is still a little buggy at the moment – I will continue to fix that in the months (and years) to come. For now, its time to fix my blogroll again and reconnect with all my buddies from the foodies blogosphere.
My favorite food blog as of late – I present to you Eat Love [...]
Hey Folks, I’ve been away on an amazing roadtrip at the beginning of the month, and recently I’ve been working to transfer this blog to a new server. Hence, the vacuum at Siuyeh.com. Did someone just drop a pin? HA. Funny. Hopefully, will have the (new) blog up and running soon. Cheerios.
Vince puts all of us foodies to shame by taking his love of food and boardgames to the next level.
We tried playing Foodie Fight just now and it was pretty hard. Between an experienced chef, a diehard foodie and a self-proclaimed food blogger (that’ll be me), we got about 30-40% of the questions right. These [...]
The Big Mac index* by the Economist is nothing new, but here’s something else the economics of a Big Mac derives. Preeeeetty interesting stuff.
*And I quote “The Economist’s Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, under which exchange rates should adjust to equalise the cost of a basket of goods and [...]
An excerpt from BW, which I find quite amusing. The amount of food consumed at an NFL team’s training camp can probably feed a family in rural China for years. Kinda reminded of the time when news broke out during the BJ Olympics that Phelps consumes some 12,000 calories a day or sth like that, [...]
A bit late to be writing up about this since the Tea Fair (and the Hong Kong Food Expo) has already ended. Although I wasn’t there to witness the Milk Tea Challenge live on Sunday, I was there on Friday and Saturday and every time I walked past the milk tea booth, I was quite [...]
Edit: I got schooled. “Sweating” is a cooking technique and according to Wikipedia, is the gentle heating of coarsely cut vegetables in a little oil or butter, with frequent stirring and turning to insure that any emitted liquid will evaporate. Sweating usually results in tender, sometimes translucent, pieces. Sweating is often a preliminary to further [...]
12:34:56PM 07/08/09. Only get to do this once!
An interesting topic and one that’s still being heavily debated (after hundreds of years) … and no apparent answer. Thanks for providing the theory, Tony.
The “Boiling Water Freezes Faster” Camp
Anonymous from WikiAnswer
Coolbreeze from Yahoo! Answers (Although he quoted Joe Kissell, underneath, from ITOTD and read only the first part)
Hypography
ThinkQuest
EurekAlert
The “That’s BS” Camp
Joe Kissell from Interesting [...]
