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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1361)	2/19/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Tony van Werkhooven	Respond to of 2951

Yiwu- thanks for your comments on Chinese food in the US. I enjoyed reading them. It brings back many recollections of living in San Fran. as a student. Eating out in my favorite basement restaurant in Chinatown was a big treat. Thanks again

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1361)	2/19/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2951

Yiwu, Off Topic Your comments about Chinese food in America were very interesting and, IMO, right on the mark. I have learned from my time here in Asia that much of the Chinese food seen in the States is actually a poor substitute and that the best choices are usually in large cities where there is a sizeable Chinese heritage. I would add Boston to your choice of cities, for a good selection of the "real" thing. San Francisco is incomparable for selection. Even in Malaysia where the ethnic influences have merged into a food style that is local it is possible to get food purely influenced by Chinese culinary art. This is especially true in the few fine restaurants that work hard at importing the proper ingredients and prepare food in traditional ways. But for home cooking we are sometimes hampered by lack of ingredients and my wife and mother-in-law are constantly hunting for hard to find ingredients from China. In our garden we grow our own pandan, parsley, kai lan, bok choy, and some herbs that I do not know the name of. We also have melons, tomatoes, brinjal, (eggplant), onions, pumpkin, chili padi, and a mango tree that should have its first yield next year. We eat little meat, but are steady customers of the local wet market for fresh fish, and I occasionally bring home fresh fish from my trips to the hills. My mother-in-law who oversees the cooking and meal planning, and I share an interest in the garden. I do the hard stuff, digging, weeding, etc. We eat very well. best, Stitch

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1361)	2/24/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 2951

Here is some good news from China: Zhu: Nation keeps economic growth CHINA is expected to maintain an economic growth rate of more than 8 per cent this year, says Chinese Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji. While meeting Kurt Biedenkopf, minister-president of Germany's State (province) of Saxony, Zhu said yesterday the inflation rate for the year will be kept at a "very low level" compared with the rapid economic growth. Since 1996, China's economy has followed a development path of "high-growth and low-inflation," he said, assuring the country's investment environment will "get better and better." Zhu welcomes investments by German enterprises to strengthen bilateral co-operation. ... (Xinhua) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 02/24/98 Author: Copyrightc by China Daily State reveals investment plan for next three years CHINA'S total investment in the next three years will amount to almost US$1 trillion, providing great opportunities for the utilization of foreign capital, a top official said yesterday in Beijing. "In the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000), China's investment plan is set at 13 trillion yuan (US$1,566 billion)," said Chen Jinhua, minister of the State Planning Commission (SPC). In the first two years of the plan, investments totalling 5 trillion yuan (US$602 billion) were made, and others worth 8 trillion yuan (US$963 billion) will be made in the remaining three years. Chen made the remarks at the opening meeting of the two-day Project Financing Seminar, which is sponsored by the SPC, the China-Britain Trade Group and British Invisibles. The co-sponsor is China's Huaneng Power International. "The (investment) plan will not be changed, but the investment structure will be adjusted in accordance with the change in the domestic and international situation," Chen said. The focus will be on infrastructure, urban housing construction and its auxiliary projects, as well as high-tech industries. "The completion of these construction projects will mainly rely on China's large amount of savings deposits and domestic (fund) accumulation," Chen noted. It also gives more opportunities for the utilization of foreign capital. The seminar -- attended by more than 100 scholars and experts from central government departments, large enterprise groups, financial agencies, lawyers' offices, large overseas investment firms and insurance companies -- was aimed at pushing the development of financing China's projects. "The meeting is to guide the foreign capital toward infrastructure and basic industries, learn lessons from the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia and strengthen the supervision of the foreign capital's work," said an SPC official who declined to be identified. The project financing is a method of raising funds on international capital market for the China-based project. The British ambassador to China, Anthony Galsworthy, told the meeting that "the seminar will show that Britain is a country which can offer everything needed for project financing in China." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 02/24/98 Author: Sun Shangwu Copyrightc by China Daily