{"id":493,"date":"2008-01-29T18:08:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2008\/01\/29\/story-3-on-the-chinese-restaurant-in-baghdad-abc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T23:12:58","slug":"story-3-on-the-chinese-restaurant-in-baghdad-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/story-3-on-the-chinese-restaurant-in-baghdad-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Story #3 on the Baghdad Chinese restaurant, this time by ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2008\/01\/29\/story-3-on-the-chinese-restaurant-in-baghdad-abc\/baghdad-chinese-restaurant-in-january-2008\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-494\" title=\"Baghdad Chinese restaurant in January 2008\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/abcbaghdadchineserestaurant.jpg\" alt=\"Baghdad Chinese restaurant in January 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/International\/story?id=4209348&amp;page=1\">Baghdad Chinese restaurant<\/a> (really, people love Chinese restaurants), this time a Reporter&#8217;s Notebook by Hilary Brown of ABC. This restaurant will soon be the most covered restaurant in all of Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>My favorite excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s no menu so I had the bright idea of calling ABC&#8217;s Beijing bureau to find out what it could serve me. I passed the phone to Wu, who was wearing a black-leather bomber jacket.<\/p>\n<p>A stream of rapid-fire Mandarin Chinese poured out of him. In spite of years of experience eating in Chinese restaurants around the world, I didn&#8217;t recognize a single word, not even chow mein, won ton or sichuan.<\/p>\n<p>ABC&#8217;s Beijing producer, Chito Romana, translated. Basically he had chicken and carrots, fried rice, mutton meatballs and dumplings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nShe ordered the dumplings and received dumplings, the size of croissants, filled with mutton in place of pork, since it is understood that this is a Muslim country where pork is forbidden. Along with mutton meatballs and a plate of chicken and carrots, the bill was 1,000 dinars, which is less than 50 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another story on the Baghdad Chinese restaurant (really, people love Chinese restaurants), this time a Reporter&#8217;s Notebook by Hilary Brown of ABC. This restaurant will soon be the most covered restaurant in all of Baghdad My favorite excerpts: There&#8217;s no menu so I had the bright idea of calling ABC&#8217;s Beijing bureau to find [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-7X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}