In Beijing, Peking duck is king - Chicago Tribune
27 May 2012, 4:45 pm
The entire process takes about an hour. While Da Dong uses fruit woods, such as almond and apple, other local duck restaurants, like 1949, use only jujube wood, which has to mature 40 years before it can be harvested. At Made in China — tucked ...

The Hormone Diet: How To Get Your Mojo Back, Naturally - blisstree.com
24 May 2012, 1:57 pm
Instead, select an all natural, water-based lubricant such as Hathor lube, which has libido boosting properties including Horny Goat Weed, jujube Zizyphus and Siberian Ginseng.

Tradition on the go - Bangkok Post
24 May 2012, 12:16 pm
Choices of tea include barley, buckwheat, ginseng, honey, citron, botanical herbs and jujube, and are priced 50-70 baht per glass. Despite its "fast food" setting, the dining custom here is very much in the Korean tradition. A complementary platter of ...

Energy brings wealth to west China - People's Daily Online
20 May 2012, 7:16 pm
Luo Zhiguo, a jujube farmer in neighboring Qarklik County, plans to build a refrigerator this year. "Thanks to the stable power supply, the annual profits are expected to grow by 25 percent to 1 million yuan (about 158,028 U.S. dollars)." On May 13 ...

Xinjiang Uygur women pursue a different path - China Daily
20 May 2012, 3:46 am
In 2009, Hawagul quit her job as a computer science teacher in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and brought her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter with her to jujube village along with new ideas on how to live life. jujube is located in a remote ...

Tea's refreshing change - China Daily
17 May 2012, 9:36 pm
And flavors, such as lemon, rose and jujube, that are rarely seen in traditional recipes, have been introduced to appeal to youthful palates. "Although tea drinking and tea art performance are quite popular in China, they are lacking in ritual, which ...

That's a lot of bellies to rub for luck: 8,000 Buddhas gathered together in one place - Daily Mail
11 May 2012, 7:34 pm
These Buddha sculptures stretch for as far as the eye can see. There are 8,000 of them in all and each and every one has been painstakingly carved from dead jujube trees. Varying in height from 1m to 1.5m, they have been put on display in Zhengzhou ...