{"id":484,"date":"2008-01-25T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2008\/01\/25\/more-on-the-baghdad-chinese-restaurant-no-sweet-and-sour-pork\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T22:36:19","slug":"more-on-the-baghdad-chinese-restaurant-no-sweet-and-sour-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/more-on-the-baghdad-chinese-restaurant-no-sweet-and-sour-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Baghdad Chinese restaurant: no Sweet and Sour Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media just loves the Chinese restaurant in Baghdad story. The Times of Lonndon also takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article3247908.ece\">alook<\/a> at the Chinese restaurant in Baghdad with a piece that is horribly headlined: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article3247908.ece\">Chinese chefs take a wok on the wild side in world&#8217;s most dangerous city<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tidbits we learn<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is probably the only non-Iraqi restaurant \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and possibly the only non-Arab business \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in the city except for a handful huddled in the fortified, sealed-off Western enclaves.<\/li>\n<li> The local Baghdadis feel that peace is on its way. And the Chinese restuarants makes them feel almost cosmopolitan.<\/li>\n<li>The restaurat workeres have left their families behind in China, work all the time, and sleep next door to the restaurant in a single room.<\/li>\n<li>The new tenants do not\u00c2\u00a0 serve sweet and sour pork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media just loves the Chinese restaurant in Baghdad story. The Times of Lonndon also takes alook at the Chinese restaurant in Baghdad with a piece that is horribly headlined: &#8220;Chinese chefs take a wok on the wild side in world&#8217;s most dangerous city.&#8221; Tidbits we learn It is probably the only non-Iraqi restaurant \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-food","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-7O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}