Water in China

In article , PTravel says...

I'm not sure what you're referring to by "kebab,"=20

There is no D=F6ner Kebab in your country ?=20
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Alfred Molon

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In article , PTravel says...

I'm not sure what you're referring to by "kebab,"

There is no Döner Kebab in your country ?

There's kebab, here -- it's simply skewered meat. I'd never heard of Döner
Kebab before, so I looked it up. In the US, it's more often called a
"gyro." As it turns out, there's a little place here in my office building
that serves it, and I usually have it several times a month.

However, we were talking about food and water in China. Kebab (or Döner
Kebab) isn't a Chinese dish (though, of course, the Chinese have food served
on sticks -- I had some "stinky tofu" a couple of months ago which was
rather memorable).


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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:06:34 -0700, the renowned "PTravel"
wrote:


"Alfred Molon" wrote in message
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In article , PTravel says...

I'm not sure what you're referring to by "kebab,"

There is no Döner Kebab in your country ?

There's kebab, here -- it's simply skewered meat. I'd never heard of Döner
Kebab before, so I looked it up. In the US, it's more often called a
"gyro." As it turns out, there's a little place here in my office building
that serves it, and I usually have it several times a month.

One of the places near me has both gyros and shawarma (both prepared
from the vertical rotisserie stack of meat). He told me what the
difference was between the two, but I don't remember. ;-) It was
fairly minor.

However, we were talking about food and water in China. Kebab (or Döner
Kebab) isn't a Chinese dish (though, of course, the Chinese have food served
on sticks -- I had some "stinky tofu" a couple of months ago which was
rather memorable).

You can find kebabs in the West of China, starting around Xian.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:37:43 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

One of the places near me has both gyros and shawarma (both prepared
from the vertical rotisserie stack of meat). He told me what the
difference was between the two, but I don't remember. ;-) It was
fairly minor.

Isn't it just the origin of the word? Gyros is Greek, kebab is
Turkish, and shawarma is Middle-Eastern. The actual food is more or
less the same I believe.

Chris

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:27:04 +0800, the renowned Chris Blunt
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:37:43 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

One of the places near me has both gyros and shawarma (both prepared
from the vertical rotisserie stack of meat). He told me what the
difference was between the two, but I don't remember. ;-) It was
fairly minor.

Isn't it just the origin of the word? Gyros is Greek, kebab is
Turkish, and shawarma is Middle-Eastern. The actual food is more or
less the same I believe.

Chris

Yes, more or less. As are doner kebabs and even souvlaki. And falafel
and kofta are not that far off). The Wikipedia entry has a bunch of
info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros

The (Syrian immigrant-run) place I mentioned uses thin chewy pitas for
the shawarma which crispy up nicely in their sandwich press. Maybe his
gyros use a thicker softer pita.

Perhaps it's a bit like submarine, grinder, hero, hoagie, Italian
sandwich, poor boy, sub, and torpedo, which are all regional North
American names for what is essentially the same type of sandwich.


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If you have not had a typhoid shot in the last three years, you may want to
consider one. There are a number of other vaccinations recommended for
asian travelers. See the CDC website for recommendations.

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/seasia.htm#vaccines

Happy travels.

rg

People who lived in a developing country such New York in August 2003,
are told to boil their tap water if they want to drink it.

If you are worry on whether or not a food is washed in a drinkable
water or not, just remember, a cooked food already pretty much have
boiled water.

In developing countries such as Japan, you might want to watch out
since some of the foods are prepared raw.



As for brushing teeth with unboiled water.

Well... Unless you have any indication that the water is clean enough
for you, you might want to avoid swallowing any of it.

The definition of clean varies from person to person, but the human
race actually is pretty resistant to bacterieas and so on.

Usually aliens have a pretty strict definition of clean, they HATE
bacterias! They basically labeled every country that don't fit their
standard as third world countries, developing world countries, and lots
of other degrading terms.