Posts Tagged ‘mandarin’
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The sweetest citrus in the world, Sumo aka Dekopon デコポン aka Hallabong 한라봉, has just hit town, and for just the second time in history.
Get all the deets from last year’s Los Angeles Times. Check it:
“I’ve tasted more than 1,000 varieties of citrus, and to me the Dekopon is the most delicious.”
And now in 2012, they even have these special mandarin oranges in New York City.
Respect! These things could turn into a bigger seasonal food fad than those fictitious Mackinaw peaches. The Mackinaw peaches, Jerry! The Mackinaw peaches!
Dekapons as seen at the new Whole Foods Haight Ashbury last year – they’re back at WF this year but without the cardboard flats:
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It’s the biggest mandarin you’ll ever see, per the Berkeley Bowl.
Yes they’re big, yes they’re ugly, yes they’re pricey, but they’re super sweet
Its like having a circus in your mouth.
But get ‘em fast, cause they’ll be all gone by next month.
Enjoy.
Tags: 2011, 2012, bay area, berkeley bowl, california, central valley, Citrus, dekapons, Dekopon, February, Hallabong, korea, mandarin, mandarins, orange, oranges, San Francisco, seedless, Shiranui, sumos, sweet, Sweetest, whole foods, winter, デコポン, 한라봉
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
[UPDATE: Our SFPL offers this in reply:
"FYI – we did do an iPad 2 training and demo a few months ago. Patrons specifically asked about Chinese-made tablets so the International Center Librarian specifically reached out to find some manufacturers to learn about their tablet computers. No sales pitches can be made. It’s purely informational session about the device and how it can work with library’s resources such as eBook downloads."
[UPDATE II: Well, let's consider the language below a first draft, as some of it is gone now. Check the current sched to see that there are now listed similar classes what focus on the iPad 2.]
Uh, our San Francisco Pubic Library has a “Chinese Center” that puts on bilingual demonstrations about how tablet PC’s like the Acer Iconia Tab and ASUS Eee Tab Transformer are better than Apple’s iPad 2?
Apparently:
“Acer Inc., a top computer company in Taiwan, and Central Computers Co. will talk and demo the features of the popular Acer Iconia Tab and ASUS Eee Tab Transformer, including what iPad 2 doesn’t have. The program will be in English and Chinese.”
O.K. then.
News to me…
Tags: 2, Acer, apple, Apple Haterade, apples, ASUS, bilngual, cantonese, China, chinese, Chinese Center, civic center, computers, demonstration, Eee Tab Transformer, Haterade, Iconia, II, ipad, keyboard, laptop, library, main, mandarin, netbook, nettop, San Francisco, San Francisco Public Library, SFPL, Tab, tablet, taiwan
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
The sweetest citrus in the world, Sumo aka Dekopon デコポン aka Hallabong 한라봉, has just hit town, and for the first time in history.
Get all the deets from last week’s Los Angeles Times. Check it:
“I’ve tasted more than 1,000 varieties of citrus, and to me the Dekopon is the most delicious.”
Respect! These things could turn into the bigger seasonal food fad than those Mackinaw peaches.
Dekaopons as seen at the new Whole Foods Haight Ashbury:
Click to expand
It’s the biggest mandarin you’ll ever see, per the Berkeley Bowl.
Yes they’re sweet, yes they’re big, yes they’re ugly, yes they’re pricey.
But get them fast, cause they’ll be all gone by next month.
Enjoy.
Tags: 2011, bay area, berkeley bowl, california, central valley, Citrus, dekapons, Dekopon, Hallabong, korea, mandarin, orange, San Francisco, seedless, Shiranui, sweet, Sweetest, whole foods, デコポン, 한라봉
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Here’s the contention:
“Independent documentaries are the only free media existing in mainland China today.”
Do y0u buy that? Well, see for yourself at China Underground from December 3-5 at VIZ Cinema on Post Street in the New People Building.
All the deets:
VIZ CINEMA SPOTLIGHTS NEW CHINESE FILM MOVEMENT IN CHINA UNDERGROUND OPENING IN DECEMBER
7 Films Over 3 Days Offer a View of China as Never Seen Before
San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2010 – VIZ Cinema and NEW PEOPLE, in association with dGenerate Films, are proud to present a fascinating series focusing on a new vanguard of Chinese independent filmmakers, whose innovative uses of digital filmmaking deliver provocative insights into the world’s largest nation. The China Underground film series opens Friday, December 3rd and runs through Sunday, December 5th. Tickets and complete details are available at: www.vizcinema.com.
All of the documentary films to be shown at the festival were made outside the official Chinese film system – unauthorized, uncensored, and totally independent. These groundbreaking films introduce a new generation of filmmakers who represent the future of Chinese cinema, using new technology to present a vision of China as never seen before. A wide variety of controversial topics and issues like homosexuality, the role of women in society, the forced relocation of citizens which preceded the 2008 Beijing Olympics, drug use, and the inner workings of Chinese law enforcement, are examined in unflinching detail in these seven films.
China Underground opens Friday December 3rd with the premiere of Queer China, “Comrade” China at 7:00pm. The screening will include a Q&A session with several guest speakers and an after-party that will immediately follow. The remaining films will be screened throughout the weekend.
Ever more deets, after the jump
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Tags: "Comrade" China, 1428, 2010, bay area, Before the Flood, california, China, China Underground, Cinema, Cui Zi’en, dGenerate, dGenerate Films, Digital Underground in the People’s Republic, documentary, english, film, filmmakers, films, ghost town, girls, Karin Chien, Manami Iiboshi, mandarin, Meishi Street, People’s Republic, programming director, Queer China, San Francisco, series, Sichuan, subtitles, Super, Using, VIZ, VIZ Cinema, ‘Comrade’
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
This was the scene last night at the Palace of Fine Arts, where Stanfurd freshman and bay area local Crystal Lee was crowned Miss Chinatown USA 2010. It’s international news.
All the pageantry was caught by David Yu of davidyuweb. He always has great photos of whatever’s going on the bay area.
The crowning the School of the Arts alum:
Here are all the contestants: Christine Lim 李汶娸, Kristina Owyoung 歐陽坤怡, Samantha Chin 陳冠曄, Leilani Soon 孫愛蘭, Anna Chiem 詹佩盈, Christina Zhang 張子倩, Crystal Lee 李萬晴, Gloria Mui 梅主恩, Angela Wang 王兆蓬, Chang Liu 劉暢, Li Li 李欣燃, and Tong Qiao 喬彤:
How many peacocks had to die for this outfit? None, I s’pose:
Congratulations:
Crystal Lee
San Francisco, CA
Miss Chinatown U.S.A.
Kristina Owyoung
Lafayette, CA
Miss Chinese Chamber of Commerce/First Princess
Christina Zhang
Pleasanton, CA
Miss San Francisco Chinatown
Li Li
Flushing, NY
2nd Princess
Anna Chiem
Chicago, IL
3rd Princess
Angela Wang
Sugar Land, TX
4th Princess
Anna Chiem
Chicago, IL
Miss TVB Choice Award
And of course our Chinese New Year’s Parade is coming up (rain expected – it’s free to watch of course, or you can pay $30 for reserved seating) on Saturday, February 27th, 2010, right after the Coronation Ball:
Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Coronation Ball
Friday, February 26, 2010
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
(415) 982-3000
6:00 pm No Host Cocktails
7:00 pm Dinner and Dancing until midnight
Tickets: $120
The newly selected Miss Chinatown USA and her court will be crowned at the annual Harrah’s Coronation Ball. The black tie dinner/dance, attended by many community leaders, promises to be a highlight of the Lunar New Year festivities.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
At this point, you might consider three-term City Attorney Dennis J. Herrera the solid front-runner in the race to become mayor in 2011. He sure seemed to have a lot of well-wishers today, anyway, in City Hall, where hundreds were on hand to see him get sworn in by California Assemblyman ad Speaker-Elect John A. Pérez.
But eight-year-old Declan Herrera stole the show with his reading of New Year’s wishes in English and Mandarin Chinese:
It was standing room only in the North Light Court of City Hall this afternoon:
Congratulations to Dennis Jose Herrera!
City Attorney’s Swearing-in Ceremony
WHEN:
TODAY, Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
WHERE:
City Hall’s North Light Court
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco
WHO:
* City Attorney Dennis Herrera and family
* California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer
* California Assemblymember John A. Pérez
* Elected officials and community leaders
Tags: 2010, 2011, 7, attorney, ceremony, chinese, City Hall, civic center, declan, dennis herrera, dennis j herrera, dennis jose, herrera, in, january, mandarin, Mayor, oath, office, swearing, sworn, term, third
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Since the whole point of the U.S. Census is to count people, wouldn’t it make sense to try to send out letters that people can generally read? Like, how about “Cantonese or Mandarin” (hey, aren’t they the same thing?) writing, for instance?
That’s what San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Board of Supervisors President and District 3 Supervisor David Chiu, and Vincent Pan of Chinese for Affirmative Action were asking at City Hall yesterday.
Good question.
Tags: board of supervisors, bureau, canotnese, census, chinese, Chinese For Affirmative Action, city attorney, City Hall, Custodial Detention Index, David Chiu, dennis herrera, elnglish, enumeration, federal, languages, letter, mail, mandarin, president, San Francisco, spanish, Supervisor, U.S., United States, Vincent Pan
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