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[Esquire] Yao Ming: What You've Learned

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by sabesque, Dec 8, 2009.

  1. bloop

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    man was literally playing with a broken foot. I'm a tough dude but imagine playing and feeling the crunches as your feet gets fractured through impact and you keep going
     
  2. dbigfeet

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    how can you HATE Yao?
     
  3. ScoobyUT

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    Word up! :)
     
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    What a great fighter!
    Can't believe there are so many Yao haters here becasue Yao got injured again. Yao's injury is frustrating, but Yao at least deserves some respect.

     
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    I wonder if the interviewer knows that fortune cookies are an American invention. Also I liked the Chinglish quote but practically every Chinese that lives in the US knows about Chinglish.
     
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    pretty sure that fortune cookies originated from Japan or China
     
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    I miss Yao. :(
     
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    Just for grins, looked on Wikipedia and found this:

    A fortune cookie is a crisp Asian American cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside. A "fortune" is a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy. In the United States and Canada (although also available in other parts of the Western world), it is usually served with Chinese food in Chinese restaurants as a dessert. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation. The exact provenance of fortune cookies is unclear, but various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century, basing their recipe on a traditional Japanese cracker.[1] The cookies are mostly unknown in mainland China or Taiwan.



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    As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the American Fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan, and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called omikuji. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion.[1]
     

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