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Skriven 2014-04-26 22:34:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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 JW> There's a huge difference between the inflation rates for the
 JW> necessities of life that the poor care about and a lot of luxury
 JW> items. ...

 ML> I don't know the factors in our Consumer Price Index but was
 ML> of the impression that it was fairly properly weighted.

It's probably a pretty reasonable measurement for the middle class.

 JW> "The overall inflation rate, was 1.5 per cent in March, higher than
 JW> a year ago, although fresh fruit was 8.8 per cent higher, fresh
 JW> vegetables cost 5.3 per cent more and meat was up 3.4 per cent.

 ML> Seasonality perhaps plays a factor here?

Nope. They were comparing prices in March 2014 compared to March
2013.

You recently mentioned a Chinese dish with something like pita
bread in it, which got me googling and I learned about ...

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     Title: About Bing (Chinese Flat Breads)
Categories: Chinese, bread, info
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           Bing

Bing is a wheat flour-based Chinese food with a flattened or
disk-like shape, similar to the French concept of a galette. These
foods may resemble the flatbreads, pancakes, unleavened dough foods
of non-Chinese and western cuisines. Many of them are similar to the
Indian roti, French crepes, or Mexican tortilla, while others are
more similar to Western cakes and cookies.

The term is Chinese, but may also refer to flatbreads or cakes of
other cultures. The crepe and the pizza, for instance, are referred
to as keli bing and bisa bing respectively, based on the sound of
their Western names, and the flour tortilla is known as Mexican thin
bing based on its country of origin.

Bings are usually a casual food and generally eaten for lunch, but
they can also be incorporated into formal meals. Both Peking duck
and moo shu pork are rolled up in thin wheat flour bao bing with
scallions and sweet bean sauce or hoisin sauce. Bing may also have a
filling such as ground meat. Bing are commonly cooked on a skillet
or griddle although some are baked.

Some common types include: 
Cong you bing (scallions and oil bing)
Fa mian bing (yeast-risen bing)
Laobing (pan fried bing)
Shaobing (baked bing)
Jian bing (fried egg pancake, similar to crepes), and a popular
breakfast street food in China.
Bo bing (literally "thin pancakes") refers to a thin circular
crepe-like wrapper or "skin" wrapping various fillings. This is
sometimes called "Mandarin pancake" or "moo shu pancake"  in
American Chinese food contexts.
Luobo si bing (shredded radish bing) is a type of panfried bing
consisting of a wheat dough skin filled with shredded radish
Rou jia bing  also called rou jia mo refers to a bing that is sliced
open and filled with meat, typically stewed pork or lamb meat. Some
variants, such as niu rou jia bing use sesame bread and are filled
with beef meat and pickled carrots and daikon, similar to a banh mi.
The Yuebing,  which sharing the name bing, is really a baked sweet
pastry usually produced and eaten at the mid-autumn festival. Some
other dessert bings are "Wife" cake  which contains winter melon,
and the sweetened version of 1000 layer cake which contains
tianmianjiang, sugar, and five spice or cinnamon.

Bings are also eaten in Korean culture, the most common being Jeon
which often contain seafood.

From Wikipedia

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(Being Wiki there may be errors.)


 

YK Jim


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