5/21/2023 0 Comments 19 days old xian![]() ![]() Fat bulbs of bok choi dotted the dish, along with shredded carrots, and the noodles were indeed very long and fat, as well as tasty. ![]() The dish was large for $12.99 and, in response to a request, the spice was mild. Seeking a vegetarian option, this Tri-City News reporter tried a bowl of hand-pulled noodles with hot spicy oil. Hot spicy oil on tomato egg and spicy sour pork.Old Xian's offers a range of hearty dishes, including Chinese burgers (shredded meat in a Baji bun), a variety of meat and noodle dishes and vegetable dishes, including a tasty-looking cucumber salad. (at the corner of North Road and Austin Avenue) and she dubbed the place her "favourite noodle spot." The open concept restaurant - with seating for 18 - quietly opened just a couple of weeks ago but appears to have found a following.ĭeanna Woo, a Vancouver foodie, posted on Instagram a video of the crazy, long fat noodles to be found at the new restaurant, located at 501 North Rd. ![]() ![]() Old Xian's Food is the fourth Old Xian's restaurant in the Lower Mainland, offering northwestern-style Chinese comfort food and snacks. Maybe because it's close to the Lougheed SkyTrain station - and across from Lougheed Mall - but customers have already found Old Xian's Food restaurant in a tiny strip mall on North Road in Coquitlam. ![]()
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![]() However, the chemistry between Jada and Donovan was great, and the writing was a great combination of heartfelt and fun, which made for an overall good read. My only complaint is that it was a little fast-paced, and the last-minute separation felt forced. I especially loved Jada’s relationship with her grandmother. The whole cast was diverse and well developed, and the relationships were a delight to read. Fake It Till You Bake It: A Novel by Jamie Wesley 4.1 (52) Paperback 16.99 Paperback 16.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 40. ![]() Jada wanted to prove that she wasn’t just a reality TV star, and Donovan completely shucked the toxic masculinity often associated with athletes by owning a bakery and even reading a romance novel for Jada’s book club. The bakery was the perfect setting for this story, which at its heart, was all about subverting expectations. However, when a reporter mistakes her and her new boss Donovan as being in a relationship, she’s thrust back into the spotlight to help Donovan rehabilitate his struggling bakery.įake It Till You Bake It was a cute, lighthearted read. ![]() ![]() After turning down a proposal on a reality dating show, Jada wants nothing more than to avoid the spotlight and prove to her grandmother that she can be a mature adult. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd![]() And when Avery finds out that her family might move across the country, things get even more complicated.Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter have once again teamed up to tell a funny, heartfelt, and charming story of family, friendship, and growing up. ![]() So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl! Avery hatches a plan to finally get her own room, all while trying to get Max to sleep at night, navigating changes in her friendships, and working on an art entry for the fair. All Avery wants is her own room - her own space to be alone and make art. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. ![]() d the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. especially when you're in a family of nine!Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. ![]() ![]() From the Eisner-nominated duo behind the instant bestseller Allergic comes a fun new graphic novel about finding your own space. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell![]() ![]() ![]() As usual, Cornwell offers dramatic battle scenes with big swinging swords. Even readers unfamiliar with the series will be able to catch on, but devoted fans will devour this volume while eagerly anticipating the next one., Bernard Cornwell ranks as the current alpha male of testosterone-enriched historical fiction…. In typical Conwellian fashion, the battle scenes are magnificent, but the author also deserves points for incorporating a healthy dose of romance and intrigue into the rousing plot. ![]() Cornwell's stylistic verve extends to main character Uhtred, a marvelously complex figure…. Consistently fascinating., The fourth installment of the acclaimed Saxon Tales series resonates with the same masculine vigor as the first three volumes. Followers of this excellent series have stuck with Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the dispossessed pagan nobleman in thrall to the professionally Christian Wessexian monarch, through enough battles and perils for a dozen ordinary men. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Temeraire novik![]()
5/20/2023 0 Comments More Than Human by Doug Moench![]() With his first foray in live action coming to the small screen for Disney+ this year, there’s reason to hope the character’s background remains a big part of him. His Judaism is a reflection of his creators and the context they wove into his expanding mythology. Spector’s Jewishness is an important part of his character, not only informing casual personality traits, but adding depth and richness to his stories. His prime alter-ego, Marc Spector, is the son of a rabbi who fled Czechoslovakia for Chicago. Though the character has more than one alias (or more than one personality, depending on the canon), his core self has a specific origin, one that adds meat to his story. His costume is cool, his origin is fantastic, and his persona is complex. ![]() Sometimes referred to as Marvel’s Batman, Moon Knight is a cowl clad vigilante partial to darkness. ![]() ![]() Moon Knight's MCU debut is a thrill for fans of the underappreciated Marvel character, and great reason for newcomers to meet the moonlit hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Productivity – the effectiveness of effort as measured at the rate at which inputs are turned into outputs.Scarcity – the wants of everyone add up to more than what exists without scarcity, there would be no need for economics.Economics – the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses.Economy – a system for the production and distribution of the goods and services we use in everyday life.“The fundamental principles of economics are not hard to understand, but they are easy to forget, especially amid the heady rhetoric of politics and the media.” In Chapter 1 of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell introduces the concept of economics, scarcity, and productivity: Basic Economics on Amazon Chapter 1: What is Economics? ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Thomas merton way of chuang tzu![]() ![]() Merton points out that Chuang Tzu's Taoism is not "the popular, degenerate amalgam of superstition, alchemy, magic, and health-culture which Taoism later became." Instead, Chuang Tzu's Taoism values an inner unity, a hiddenness of the true man, and a practical asceticism that Merton also finds in Christian mysticism. Merton assures us that his book "is not a new apologetic subtlety (or indeed a work of jesuitical sleight of hand) in which Christian rabbits will suddenly appear by magic out of a Taoist hat." Yet Merton's paraphrase demonstrates how Chuang Tzu's writings closely resemble the apophatic thought of some Christian theologians and mystics that Merton writes about elsewhere. The content of their philosophies is similar, too. Merton and Chuang Tzu both were hermits to some extent, and both spiritual philosophers of sorts, perhaps with Merton heavier on the spiritual side and Chuang Tzu more the philosopher. Merton sees Chuang Tzu as his kindred spirit. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The forgotten man by amity shlaes![]() ![]() Amity Shlaes has delivered it Paul JohnsonĪmity Shlaes not only manages to keep you wide awake, she also sets your blood to boiling. Readers have waited eagerly for this book for decades. Authoritative, original, and utterly engrossing, The Forgotten Man reveals how those dark years shaped both current political challenges and the strong national character that helps Americans to confront them. ![]() Finally, she traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves. She takes a fresh look at the great scapegoats of the period, from Andrew Mellon to Sam Insull of Chicago. ![]() In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great by forgetting the men and women who sought to help themselves. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. From one of America's most respected economic commentators comes a fresh new interpretation of a crucial yet widely misunderstood moment in American history - the Great DepressionĬhallenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part of the twentieth century. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Sentinel by Jennifer L. Armentrout![]() ![]() Armentrout had once again swept me away into the dangerously beautiful world of Greek deities, Apollyons, Pures and Half-Bloods. In the stunning, action-packed climax to the bestselling Covenant series, Alex must face a terrible choice: the destruction of everything and everyone she holds dear… or the end of herself. Delphi, they must now trust a deadly foe as they travel deep into the Underworld to release one of the most dangerous gods of all time. WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST 4 BOOKS.Īs the mortal world slowly slips into chaos of the godly kind, Alexandria Andros must overcome a stunning defeat that has left her shaken and in doubt of their ability to end this war once and for all.Īnd with all the obstacles between Alex and her happily-ever-after with the swoonworthy Aiden St. ![]() |