Chicken legs, onion, ginger and salt go in boiling water. Wait till the chicken is tender.
Next, place the chicken in a hot pan with oil and broil it in soya sauce. Add sugar and salt. Lower the heat but keep adding chicken soup till the meat is nice and juicy.

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I'm all about consumerism. Electronics made in China. A newspaper from Britan. Shirts from Turkey and eggs from Aldi (no idea where they come from).

I try to marginally improve the world by bringing at least a small part of my euros to workers in poor or developing countries (even the most capitalistic company creates jobs and incomes). However there are some who restrict their consumption.

• pescatarian a person who does not eat meat, but fish.
• vegetarian a person who does not eat animals.
• vegan a vegetarian who also does not eat or use animal products.
• fruitarian a person who will eat only what falls (or would fall) naturally from a plant.
• locavorian a person who only eats local food.

While I could see myself as a pescatarian, I find it hard to imagine life as a fruitarian. However, today I read about a group called freegans.

• freegan a vegetarian who only eats or uses things from other people’s garbage.

It's some kind of antiglobalisation thing, which -obviously- I don't understand.

I found those freegans on 3 Extreme Ways To Go Green (via digg).
A related post on derbaum.com is: Eier von Glücklichen Bauern

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10RMB = 1Euro

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I would like to run the Vienna Marathon on April 29th. After reading about marathon training and talking to Lutzi -my trainer- I came up with the following schedule:

Week	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	So
8.-14.Jan		10km		8km	8km		14km
15.-21.Jan		10km		8km	8km		15km
22.-28.Jan		10km		9km	8km		16km
29.-4.Feb		10km		9km	9km		17km
5.-11.Feb		11km		9km	9km		18km
12.-18.Feb		11km		10km	9km		19km
19.-25.Feb		11km		10km	10km		20km
26.-4.Mar		11km		10km	10km		21km
5.-11.Mar		12km		10km	10km		22km
12.-18.Mar		12km		10km	10km		23km
19.-25.Mar		12km		10km	10km		24km
26.-1.Apr		12km		10km	10km		25km
2.-8.Apr		12km		10km	10km		15km
9.-15.Apr		10km		8km	8km		14km
16.-22.Apr	4km		4km		4km
23.-29.Apr	4km		4km		4km		42km

Additionally Lutzi recommends noodles, potatoes, fish, eggs, chocolate and bananas. Which sounds like my current diet anyway.

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Eggs from happy Farmers.
I like to cook. I buy my food at Billa, an Austrian grocery, for no other reason than it's location. Across the street. If there was an Aldi, a cheaper grocery from Germany, I would go there.
But some people drive a great distance to find a farmers market where they pay not less but more for local, organic food.
I frequently get into fights with my sister, when we cook together, since she too insists on organic and local food.
But I don't want to pay more and support farmers in Austria over farmers in, say Chile.
"But those are more happy farms", she insists.
Of course those Austrian farm(er)s are more happy. They get vast amounts of subsidies and protection from the European Union as well as the Austrian government. The little competition left, is further reduced by strict import regulation. Additionally, even the Austrian population favors them for almost any price. Someone really did some great marketing (and lobbying) here.

The Economist offers some arguments why

• Organic Food doesn't help the environment (Without pesticides twice as much land is needed for farming).
  
• Local Food increases pollution (Small trucks from each farm pollute more than efficient international cargo).
  
• and Fair Trade hurts farmers in Africa (The price for coffee is low because of overproduction, subsidizing some farmers with "Fair Trade" will lead to even more production. Decreasing the price for others even further).
  

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Pictures from the Magnum P.I. Night on October 14th.


Peter, Stefan


Brigitte, Christine, Konrad / Stefan, Johannes, Patrick


Magnum / Minji, Mijin, Eunji

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I'm in a cap in Shanghai, trying to find a Sushi place where I'm supposed to meet my colleges. That's always a challenge. Taxi drivers plainly refuse to read street names written by me in English on a napkin. If I try reading to them, they refuse to listen. I have to call a chinese friend, spell out the street name, and ask the driver to listen to a correct pronunciation over the phone.
Any attempt to sidestep this procedure leads me outside the city from where I have to call my friend anyway.
To make things easier, I carry a collection of business cards with Chinese addresses of various places I may want to go to. But of course the card from the Sushi place is missing...

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I used to complain about Starbucks. A lot. I worried competition from the wrong coffee culture could hurt wonderful old Viennese coffeehouses.

Today, I worry no more. Starbucks could turn out beneficial for coffee lovers like myself. Even if I never go to Starbucks.

Measuring by success, Starbucks must do something right. For one thing, they have great coffee. Something not always true with tradional coffeehouses.

But, coffee is not everything. I would not leave my favorite Wiener Cafe even if the coffee is better at Starbucks. But some consumers might. Putting pressure on Wiener Kaffeesieder to improve coffee quality.

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Sehr elegant aber von tausenden Leuten völlig überlaufen.

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Park 97, is beautifully located inside Fuxing park where you can party from dusk till dawn. Park has great DJ's in it's California Club, a Hip Hop or Reggae band in the main area and a Jazz band Upstairs'.
They serve Sushi and GinTonic which was all I needed...

Address	2A Gaolan Lu (near Sinan Lu)
中文	皋兰路2A号(近思南路)

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I'm pleased to report that my favorite Wiener Cafe celebrated his 100^th anniversary today.

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Am Wochenende in Prag habe ich zwei wunderschöne Cafes gefunden.

Cafe Slavia gegenüber dem Tschechischen Nationaltheater an der Narodny trida.

Und das Cafe Imperial in Na Poøíèí 15/1072.

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After a quick introduction from Samuel, we see some fun rides after our BBQ. It was quite a relaxing weekend.

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My friend Konrad is prescatarian. That's someone who eats fish but no meat. Since he comes to visit during estern, I decided to cook something Austrian without meat. My aunt Lisi provided the following recipe:

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Roast garlic and onion in olive oil + (fish, vegetables, ...); add risotto rise; add wine; slowly add soup;

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Cooking! Here my recipe for Topfennockerl: Mix quark, flour, semolina and sugar; make Nockerl (dumplings); boile them. at: Topfennockerl - de: Quarkklösse - en: quark-dumplings

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Ok, I miss my Austrian Café's. By now everybody should know that.
People try to help me and point me to there favorite Cafés in town and so, every time I give it another try to find a Café which fulfills my few basic needs.
It's Palo Alto, for gods sack, a small town yes, but one of the richest one in the world. There must be some place serving descent coffee. Yes, I like Starbucks coffee, but the coffee is not served. So what are my basic needs?

• a cup of coffee (expresso, preferable with hot milk in a cup)
• newspaper (not just tabloids)
• service (yes, indeed)

The first point cuts 80% of the coffee shops I tried. Is it to much to ask for a nice cup to serve a hot drink? Next, newspapers are missing, this kick's out the rest, and service is something which I just dream of, until I get back to my Cafe Prückel.
So why is that? Is it because of missing demand, do Americans prefer the freedom to get there coffee them self, waiting in line? Perhaps to chat up other people in line???
This bothers me, so I keep on talking with American's about that. Asking why? I try to explain, why Austrian Cafés have better service, but nobody seems to get my point.
One explanation, starts with the waiter in mind. The idea of serving coffee, or serving in general, is labeled as a poor job. Which nobody likes to do. Unlike in Austria where we call the waiter Herr Ober, which is considered the highest position in the shop. So being the Ober is something people can be proud about. You can tell, just by watching the Ober. His movement has to follow a certain style and arrogance. He knows, it's something not everybody could do. He has a tradition to keep up. Vienna is known for there Café's and it is his responsibility to keep the high standard up, for another century.
So as long as I'm here I have to live with this barbarian baristas, who drink there coffee in paper cups, while walking the street.
→ On 23 Jul 2002, 09:24 am commented wenyu to this story: Very funny. IÁÏm not sure this would make you feel better or worse. But I didn't find any satisfying coffee house in P.A. during the year I stayed at Stanford. Neither did my classmate from China. (we made joint effort in the search sometimes.) And my standards on coffee house are apparently not as high as yours. Good luck.
→ On 28 Jul 2002, 03:36 pm commented veronique to this story: hi patrick, perhaps we could meet at "in einem sonntag im august" again? berlin misses you!!!! konrad and i are going to visit you in vienna as soon as possible to get to know the wunderful atmosphere of vienna«s coffeehouses.... 20 hugs, veronique

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I just read in an article on news.com.au that: "drinking at least three cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of developing alzheimers disease by as much as 60 per cent."
"Scientists believe it is the caffeine in coffee that protects against alzheimers, an incurable disorder that causes disorientation and memory loss."
I knew I'm on the right track. Can somebody pass me another Red Bull?
*Caffeine is known for its stimulating effect, clearly noted above all in the circulatory system and in the brain.

→ On 16 Jul 2002, 07:57 am commented K to this story: Using your method of deduction: As Caffein is an Alkaloid, all Alkaloids must reduce the risk of alzheimer's! So why not use Ephedrin (from the Ephedra plant) to stay awake? It's stimulating ability is by far higher than the one of coffein.
→ On 16 Jul 2002, 08:11 am commented Patrick to this story: There is a article at msnbc.com, saying that alcohol may reduce Alzheimers as well. So in other words... Vodka Red Bull is stimulating and prevents Alzheimer! "Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, which has already been shown to help prevent heart disease and strokes, may also cut the risk of Alzheimerâs disease by nearly half, a Dutch study found."

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A todays headline in the New York Times says "An American Coffeehouse (or 4) in Vienna". In this article, of course about Starbucks, I found some nice parts and since it is interesting to know how an US Newspaper thinks about this "invasion" let's read on. »Many Viennese sniff that their culture has been infected, that Viennese use their 1,900 or so coffee shops to linger and meet, smoke and drink, savor the wonders of pastries with cream and marzipan, ponder the world, write books and read free newspapers. They drink from china cups and order from a waiter, usually in a stained black dinner jacket. Some Austrians say a caramel macchiato is worse than a Coca-Cola, likely to do more damage to European values (and waistlines) than a Big Mac. There was also skepticism about the Starbucks brand, associated with globalization and mass American culture. "It was the hardest part," said Franz Holzschuh, who leads the Starbucks joint venture in Austria. "People would say, `You're the McDonald's of coffee, with paper cups.' I'd explain a hundred times that we're not McDonald's, that we're high quality and not cheap, and only use paper cups to go."« ...just what I sad. I like this article even with the funny end: But without doubt, there is an antiglobalization activist sitting in a Starbucks somewhere, nursing rage while sipping a secret vice, the caramel macchiato.

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The Viennese Caféhaus society is proud of his history in coffee culture. The first Starbuck opend 30 years ago, so what? Just Americans can count that as historical. The Vienneses Caféhauses are 100 years and older. It scares me to see Viennas turning into an outpost of America. So I call you, to wake-up and BOYCOTT STARBUCKS! They even have an Austrian webpage to push there marketing and commercialisation onward. Ever thought why they started in Austria before Germany? Well I know why. They want to strice down the capital of Caféhauses in Europe first. So they can esasily invade the rest. If we Austrians accept this Americanization in one of our most glourius reagions, which could led to a end of Caféhauses like I used to sit in five hours a day, then I see notting left to save in European culture. I can understand when people in America don't find a better place to drink there coffee. But in Vienna, there is no excuse! I personaly recommend the Café Prückel. Where you get a Melange und ein Stück Kuchen, a newspapers like the Neue Züricher Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or Der Standard and piano music all served to your table. → On 12 Apr 2002, 03:35 pm commented Patrick to this story: I just realised this story sounds really contra America. Don't get me wrong it's just about Caféhauses... → On 12 Apr 2002, 04:21 pm commented Nico to this story: There're to problems. First the smokers: Many Kaffees have so many of them, so the air is bad. The other: They aren't "cool". You know I like them, but many think they're just for tourists or guys with much money in their pocket. They are old and they look like. They don't seem to be on-time and that's what kids today demand. → On 13 Apr 2002, 06:26 pm commented Patrick to this story: As long as Starbucks doesn't have free Newspapers and service right to my table, I will not count them as Cafehaus!

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Yes, now we have wirless LAN in the Cafe Prückel like in the Cafe Diglas. Again provided by metronet.at. Vienna is getting a better place to be, if you have wirless access point everywhere (just my home is still missing).

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Gefunden in der Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 04.01.2003, Nr. 3 / Seite 11
Besonders treffend analysiert fand ich folgenden Teil: "Der "gute Gast" zeichnet sich dadurch aus, da§ er niemals und unter keinerlei Umständen gegen die vorgegebene Etikette aufbegehrt oder dem Ober gar "Ezzes" geben will. Er bleibt, ganz im Gegenteil, stets bemüht, sein Wohlwollen mittels guter Manieren und diskret verabreichter Trinkgelder zu erhaschen. Kurzum, der "gute Gast" beweise immer seine lang geübte Anpassungsfähigkeit, die ihrerseits den milden Stolz des Obers ausmache, heist es im Vorwort zum Buch "Kaffeehäuser in Wien" von Thomas Martinek. Der "schlechte Gast" hingegen bleibt nach diesem Urteil ein Phänomen der Kaffeehausgeschichte, an dem schon die grö§ten Geister gescheitert sind. Betreten nach seinem verschollenen Bohnengetränk Ausschau haltend, das nicht und nicht kommen will, während ringsum alles genusvoll an den Tassen nippt, wird das Unglück des "schlechten Gasts" vollkommen, reklamiert er vielleicht nach zwanzig Minuten vergeblichen Wartens völlig deplaziert seine Bestellung - peinliches Schweigen. Nicht nur der Befragte, auch sämtliche seiner "guten Gäste" werden ihre Blicke sogleich angewidert abwenden - der Ober, um seine Dominanz anschaulich unter Beweis zu stellen, jene, um sich ihrer wohlerworbenen Privilegien zu erfreuen, heist es dort weiter."

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