Other threatened creatures that find their way, legally and illegally, into Chinese cooking pots could also be spared.
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Chinese cooking usually blackens the kitchen with soot and grease and is the domain of an ayi, or household helper, who cooks for the family.
But other dairy products, such as butter are still not as popular - people really hardly ever cook with it - and it's not used in Chinese cooking.
The subtle, tricky things about Chinese cooking how to balance strong flavours, how to fry vegetables so they are cooked but still crisp are assumed to be so well understood that they require no explanation.
With a menu built mainly around the traditional soft, fluffy bao, a staple of real-deal Chinese cooking, BaoHaus does the most it can with what, at first glance, seem to be modest goals: sandwiches, but with a twist, rice and noodle bowls, and in-house made drinks.
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Though Mr. Yoon, 42, is often identified as a Korean-American chef along with peers David Chang and Roy Choi, he'll be cooking Chinese and Southeast Asian food, heavy on what he calls his "pet ingredient": Sichuan peppercorns.
Companies caught up in funny business involving the government faced a withdrawal of short-term financing and changes to the board responses common in Western companies implicated in all sorts of scandal but rare among Chinese companies caught cooking the books.
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Medieval Chinese emperors were buried with their horses, soldiers, cooking pots and food to speed them on their way.
Cheng, naturally, is a serial visitor to the cooking section, snapping up books in both English and Chinese.
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Last week, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, dozens of North Korean trucks lined up at a customs checkpoint in the northeastern Chinese border city of Dandong, loaded with bags of rice, cooking oil, cheap electronics and other daily items that their country's collapsed industry cannot produce enough of for its 24 million people.
When cooking for guests, Lee doesn't represent any particular Chinese region, shuns the use of monosodium glutamate and keeps deep fried dishes to a minimum.
Chinese consumers burn about three million tons of peanut oil, considered a high-end cooking oil, exceeding the country's output of 2.3 million tons.
Over the past year some very senior Chinese politicians have toured other oil-rich countries, such as Gabon and Nigeria, cooking up similarly close ties.
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But if the Chinese came to us and said, 'Look, here's what we have cooking, ' I'm not going to tell you I'm shutting the door today to something that's logical and might have a chance of success.
The general mood is of concern, rather than outrage or panic, reports the BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai, as the Chinese public are well used to food scandals, such as the use of oil scraped from sewers for cooking, and plasticiser found in baby formula.
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