WEIRD CHINESE CAFETERIA FOOD

Experience with university cafeteria food can be a mixed bag. Some may have had the luxury of enjoying gourmet meals in the swanky parts of their university. But unlike those with unlimited financial backing from their sponsors, most of us have to stay nourished on a shoestring budget.

Fortunately, Chinese university cafeterias offer a wide range of dishes all at a low cut price. Students regularly chow down on a couple of dishes with rice and soup for between ten and twenty RMB (~ US 1.5 to US 2.9 )

Of course with cheap dishes, prices may have to be paid in other ways. It could be the result of some innovative kitchen experimenting or just the need to utilize expiring products, but here are some of the weird dishes that students have found being served in their cafeterias. You may or may not want to try them based on your level of hunger, curiosity, and masochism.

WATERMELON, BANANA

Separately, these two fruits are almost unmatched in their innuendo capabilities. However, together, and when cooked in a greyish stew, their attractiveness sharply declines.

As for taste? One can only imagine.

SWEETCORN, GRAPES

Visually, this dish is probably the most appealing out of all the ones included in this list. Flavor-wise it probably wins as well. The sweetness of the corn and the grapes juices make for an enticing combination. Let’s just hope the grapes aren’t too sour.

ORANGES, MEAT

The oranges look like they are more a relish sprinkled on afterwards, which make it more conventionally acceptable. However, just looking at these two together often causes reactions from the digestive tract.

CHICKEN HEADS

A fairly boring inclusion, given that Chinese eat chicken heads anyway.

But just chicken heads? That’s pretty rare.

Also just the way that this dish is displayed is pretty hilarious.

ORANGES, CUCUMBER, FRIED FISH, EGGS, BANANA, TOMATOES

This fairly colorful dish is visually comparable to sweet and sour pork. A fact that has probably led many a student to order such a dish, believing it to be some variant.

However, closer inspection of the ingredients leads to a unanimous sigh of confusion. Simply by excluding two or three of these ingredients would improve the edibility exponentially.

MOONCAKE, TOMATOES

A festive dish perhaps? Or maybe they simply overestimated that year’s mooncake demand. Either way, the combination is too extreme for conventional tastebuds.

However, one has to admire the addition of parsley/cilantro to increase its visual appeal. Almost fooled me.

Source: theworldofchinese

[Shared] A Guide to Starbucks Lingo

Starbucks has their own unique way of naming their drinks and items. Their cup sizes can be confusing for some. Having worked there for so long, this is what I typically get:

Customer: Can I get a small coffee of the day?

Barista: Sure, so you want a tall drip.

Customer: No, I want the small coffee.

Barista: Yes, the tall is a small.

Customer: ???

If this was one of your experiences while getting coffee there, you are not alone. I am going to give you a list of Starbucks lingo to learn so that by the time you finish this article, you become a Starbucks lingo expert.

Hot Cup Sizes

Cold Cup Sizes

Starbucks has its own lingo for sizes.

For the hot cups, we have:

• Short 8 oz cup
• Tall 12 oz cup
• Grande 16 oz cup
• Venti 20 oz cup

For the cold cups, we have:

• Tall 12 oz cup
• Grande 16 oz cup
• Venti 24 oz cup
• Trenta 30 oz cup

Notice how tall means small. Their medium is grande. The venti is large. For the cold cups, the extra-large is trenta. It isn't too bad once you get familiar with the sizes.

Drinks With Special Names

There are also plenty of drinks that have unique names. Let me give you the most common ones.

Drip

This means a regular cup of coffee. The usual way of ordering is "Can I get a Tall/Grande/Venti drip?

Red Eye

Red eye is a regular cup of coffee with an added espresso shot.

Black Eye

The big brother of red eye. A black eye has two espresso shots in a regular cup of coffee.

Blonde

The fancy version of light roasted coffee. Veranda and Willow blend come to mind. Can I have a blonde bombshell please?

Dark

The fancy version for black roasted coffee. The strongest and earthy tasting coffee such as Italian and Komodo Dragon comes to mind.

Skinny

If you like the non-fat milk and sugar free syrups, this is the option to go. A skinny mocha or skinny vanilla latte will not taste as good, but it is definitely the healthier alternative.

Zebra Mocha

This is a mix of white chocolate and dark chocolate mix in a mocha drink. It could be a regular hot mocha, ice mocha or a mocha frappuccino.

Dirty Chai

This is a fancy term for ordering a Chai tea latte with an added espresso shot. It gives the drink a strong caffeine kick.

Old School Iced Black/Passion/Green Tea

Old school means the tea that they get comes with just plain tea and ice and no sweeteners or water added to it. It is a strong flavored tea.

Upside Down Caramel/Hazelnut Macchiato

Getting an upside down caramel or hazelnut macchiato means having the drink made the opposite way instead of the usual.

In the upside down version, the caramel or hazelnut sauce is put at the bottom of the cup and the shots are pulled right below to give the drink a sweeter taste. This is great for people that prefer a really sweet version of the drink.

Affogato Style Frappuccino

Affogato style means having the espresso shot pulled on top of the drink.

This is very common for Frappuccinos, where caffeine lovers enjoy a kick to the drink by having the shot pulled on top of the Frappuccino, giving a stronger taste to take away some of the sweetness.

Source reference delishably

Samsung suspends sales of Galaxy Note 7 after smartphones catch fire

Samsung has suspended sales of its brand-new top-end Galaxy Note 7smartphone and is offering replacements for anyone who has already purchased one, but has stopped short of a full recall.

Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung’s mobile business, said on Friday, two weeks after the Note 7’s launch: “We have received several reports of battery explosions on the Note 7... and it has been confirmed that it was a battery cell problem. There was a tiny problem in the manufacturing process so it was very difficult to find out.”

Koh refused to name the supplier of the faulty battery, but said that Note 7s sold in China used batteries from a different supplier and were unaffected.

A Samsung spokesperson said: “To date there have been 35 cases that have been reported globally and we are currently conducting a thorough inspection with our suppliers to identify possible affected batteries in the market. However, because our customers’ safety is an absolute priority at Samsung, we have stopped sales of the Galaxy Note 7.

“For customers who already have Galaxy Note 7 devices, we will voluntarily replace their current device with a new one over the coming weeks.”

The Korean company said it expected it would take two weeks to prepare replacement devices of which 2.5m had been manufactured and 1m had been sold. Stock of the phablets has been quarantined in shops and mobile phone networks around the world pending the launch in the UK and other territories which was due to take place today.

Samsung’s advertising campaign, including a high-profile wrap of the Metro newspaper, had to be switched to the company’s popular Galaxy S7 series, which make up the mainstay of the company’s high-end smartphone sales.

Samsung launched the Note 7 at the end of August in some markets, including South Korea and the US. Shipments were delayed in South Korea this week for extra quality control testing after reports that the batteries of some of the jumbo smartphones exploded while they were being charged.

Samsung’s stock plunged by about $7bn over Wednesday and Thursday, barely a week after the phones launched to critical acclaim and the company’s market value reached a record high. The tests follow multiple reports from customers, some posted in online videos and images, of phones that caught fire or exploded while charging. In one video posted earlier this week, a YouTube user named Ariel Gonzalez showed off his phone, its screen charred and partially melted.

An employee of a Samsung service centre in Busan confirmed that the Galaxy Note 7 caught fire and said the sample was sent to the company’s headquarters. Park said Samsung offered her a full refund and compensation of 300,000 won (£203).

“If the exploded phone in flame was near my head, I would not have been able to write this post,” she said in an online forum on Thursday, where she shared a photo of the her damaged Note 7 and described dousing the burning phone with water.

Citing an unnamed company official, Yonhap said Samsung’s investigation has found that faulty batteries have caused phones to catch fire. It said Samsung estimates that the number of Galaxy Note 7 phones with the faulty battery accounts for “less than 0.1%” of the products in the market. Samsung is discussing how to resolve the issue with Verizon and its other partners, the official told Yonhap.

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said about 400,000 units of the Galaxy Note 7 were estimated to have been sold in South Korea.

Despite the investigation in South Korea, Samsung went ahead with its scheduled launch on Thursday of the Galaxy Note 7 in China. Company officials did not reply to questions about how Samsung determined which phones are deemed safe and which required further testing. It did not say if those phones are different from the ones sold in South Korea.

Yonhap News said five or six explosions were reported by consumers, including Park’s case, citing pictures and reports of severely damaged phones shared in local online communities, social media and YouTube. Other photos and accounts, other than Park’s, could not be immediately verified.

There were no confirmed reports of any injuries.

The Note 7 is a high-profile device for Samsung, but its sales are expected to be a fraction of those garnered by the company’s smaller and cheaper S7 and S7 Edge smartphones.

While the issues with the Note 7 are certainly embarrassing, industry sources say that should the company be able to rectify the issues with the phablet the launch delay and product swap is manageable.

Source :  theguardian

We Call Bullchip! Intel Wrong to Rebrand Core M as Core i

Does a golf cart get any faster if you call it a car? In the processor world, we're about to find out. This week, Intel announced its new 7th generation, “Kaby Lake” laptop processors, and the low-power, mediocre-performing m5 and m7 series chips are officially gone. Sort of.

The 4.5-watt processors that used to be called m5 and m7 chips have been renamed in the new lineup and now carry the Core i5 and i7 brand names. Of the Core m line, only the m3 remains. This name change is bound to befuddle customers, many of whom will think they are getting more powerful chips than they really are.

While we haven't tested any of the Kaby Lake chips yet, it's a safe bet that the 4.5-watt processors will continue to be significantly slower than the regular 15-watt Core i5 and Core i7that power most mainstream laptops and 2-in-1s. It's basic science: the more wattage a chip has, the faster it can run. The low-power chips allow for thinner designs that can be fanless, but in our experience, Core m systems have had inferior performance with battery life that's no better and sometimes worse than their Core i-powered brethren.

When we met with representatives of Intel to talk about Kaby Lake, they said that consumers didn’t understand the Core m branding and that this move would help alleviate customer confusion.

After all, Core i5 is Core i5, right? Wrong

But what's more confusing: having two different brand names for different types of CPU or having the same name for both?

Intel will tell you that you have to pay attention to the SKU numbers at the end of the chip names. And if you do, you can sidestep the issue. The regular i-series will continue as usual: Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7, with all of the processor numbers ending in the letter “U” (the i3-7100U, i5-7200U and i7-7500U). The former m5 and m7 will have the letter “Y” in the name (i5-7Y54, i7-7Y75 and m3-7Y30).

For tech nerds like me, this won’t be a problem. I’ll be able to use it to figure out what’s fanless and what’s more powerful, just like I always did.

But Intel’s chips aren’t always marketed with their full names. When I browse laptops online, it’s never surprising to see the marketing copy read “comes with a powerful Core i7 processor.” Which one? You only find out if you’re savvy enough to really dig into the specs (Apple doesn’t even disclose which generation of chip it uses on its web site). And if you’re a regular reader of Laptop Mag, that’s probably not a problem.

The people I’m worried about are your friends and family, the ones who only know that seven is greater than five which is greater than three. Because up until now, that’s how simple it was to know, roughly, what kind of power you were getting in relation to another computer.

But the “Y” and “U” series chips will make that difficult for a large portion of the customers buying millions of laptops in 2017. After all, Core i5 is Core i5, right?

Wrong. I reviewed a configuration of the Dell Latitude 13 7370 ($1,743 as tested) earlier this year that featured a 1.1 GHz Intel Core m5-6Y57, it offered poor performance, completing our OpenOffice macro in 6 minutes and 56 seconds. The super-thin Acer Switch Alpha 12 ($800 as tested) uses a Core i5-6200U and completed the test in 4:32. Not only is the Switch Alpha 12 cheaper — it’s fanless, which is what Core m5 was meant for. Acer uses water cooling to make a powerful, portable device that one would usually expect to require the Core m chip. Otherwise, both had 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD.

Users who do little more than surf the web might not notice the difference in performance between a 15-watt Core i5-7200U and a 4.5-watt Core i5-7Y54 and they probably won't even know which one they have. IT managers who buy business laptops in bulk will educate themselves about the different SKU numbers and choose accordingly. However, consumers and small business users who need to do any kind of productivity work could mistakenly buy a system with a Y series CPU and end up disappointed.

And since Intel did make the switch, it’s strange that it didn’t go whole hog and rope the m3 into the i3. At least then there would be one rule across the entire line of processors, even if it’s still more confusing than it was.

This new naming convention is straight-up confusing for the average consumer.

It’s not like Core i chips were simple already. Core i5 and i7 offer HQ and HK lines, which offer higher wattage and four cores instead of two.

But this new naming convention is straight-up confusing for the average consumer and for the techie in their life that has to explain it to them. People knew that Core m was less powerful (though may not have known about the fanless benefit) and that larger Core i numbers meant more power.

Suggesting, even indirectly, that Core i and Core m are comparable is absurd. The performance delta is clearly enough to need a differentiator, and Intel has scrapped a transparent system for an opaque one.

Source:  Laptopmag

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