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to clear (as tables) in a restaurant; to work as a busboy: butcher (have a butcher's) to have a look (rhyming slang: butcher's hook=look) to kill and cut up an animal for meat to kill messily, or someone who does so one who cuts and sells meat to make a big mess of things; botch ("butcher it up"; "I butchered the spelling") butchery (n.)
Michael Chen, was born in the Canton region of China in 1950, and the family re-located to British Hong Kong shortly thereafter. During this period, tensions existed in Hong Kong between a corrupt police force, Chinese communist agitators, and the Hong Kong colonial government.
In the summer of 2003, in the Los Angeles County community of San Gabriel, California, Asian gunmen shot out a window of a Chinese restaurant, allegedly to send a message to the owner to pay protection; instead, they killed a waitress, a Mainland Chinese immigrant. Triad extortion activity is also rife in several Chinatowns of Sydney, Australia.
The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar, and is then steamed for several hours. Red cooking: 紅燒: 红烧: hóngshāo: several different slow-cooked stews characterized by the use of soy sauce and/or caramelised sugar and various ingredients. Stir frying: 炒 / 爆: 炒 / 爆: chǎo / bào: two fast Chinese cooking ...
China's measured response to the U.S. move to hike tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods from syringes to batteries suggests relations between the world's two largest economies face more frost ...
Map showing major regional cuisines of China. Cantonese or Guangdong cuisine, also known as Yue cuisine (Chinese: 廣東菜 or 粵菜), is the cuisine of Cantonese people, associated with the Guangdong province of China, particularly the provincial capital Guangzhou, and the surrounding regions in the Pearl River Delta including Hong Kong and Macau. [1]
EOA (East of Adelaide) – A conglomerate of street gangs and individuals involved in the narcotics trade based in the east end of London, Ontario. These neighborhood gangs are linked together by London Police Service into a single entity known as EOA due to the fact that they are mostly all connected to the same supplier.
Kill the chicken to scare the monkey (traditional Chinese: 殺雞儆猴; simplified Chinese: 杀鸡儆猴; pinyin: Shājījǐnghóu; Wade–Giles: Sha-chi-ching-hou, lit. kill chicken scare monkey) is an old Chinese idiom. It refers to making an example out of someone in order to threaten others. [1]