Taking place in Hunan Province and Beijing, Xiao Ming reminisces about his memories with his grandmother through his love for San Xian noodles. When Xiao Ming was young, he and his grandmother ate San Xian noodles from a local noodle shop that to him showed care and effort for their food. However, the shop closed down with speculation that the owners were pushed out due to jealousy or a client wanted them back in Beijing. Xiao Ming then went to another noodle shop in his town, and although the shop buys pre-made San Xian noodles, the noodle soup had many toppings much to Xiao Ming's satisfaction. Later, the husband of the owner of that noodle shop wanted the noodle shop to become a fishing shop. However, after bad business and the couple's son getting hospitalized in a knife fight with some students at his school, the noodle shop reopened with the husband and son of the owner working as well. Years later in Beijing, Xiao Ming went to a noodle shop that sold San Xian noodles that had fewer toppings and a higher price, which dissatisfied Xiao Ming. He later heard the news back in Hunan that his grandmother was dying and came back as soon as possible. Xiao Ming finally met his grandmother at his home minutes before her death and grieved. Xiao Ming later came back to the noodle shop in his town, and through its San Xian noodles, felt nostalgic of his times with his grandmother and was content with the future that was ahead of him.
Taking place in a shikumen in Shanghai from 1999 to the modern-day, Li Mo has a friendly relationship with Xiao Yu. After Xiao Yu got injured trying to go back home, Li Mo carried her on his back to her apartment. Since Xiao Yu could not go to school due to her injury, she asks Li Mo to record the lessons in cassette tapes so she may listen to the tapes and learn what she missed. Xiao Yu later responds back to Li Mo in cassette tapes and the two develop a romantic relationship with each other. Soon, Xiao Yu told Li Mo that her family is making her apply to an elite high school far away and that they would have to move away, angering Li Mo. Li Mo later decided to apply to the same high school, though the academic gap between Li Mo and Xiao Yu was large. Li Mo, through hard work and a studious behavior, got accepted into the high school, and when he went to Xiao Yu's apartment to tell the news, he learned that Xiao Yu is in the hospital after her father beat her for failing the application test. Li Mo did not get the chance to see her since his family had to move away to live close to the high school. Now an architect, Li Mo recently learned that Xiao Yu went to the United States to study abroad, much to his dissatisfaction. After finding a cassette tape from Xiao Yu, Li Mo went into his grandmother's home to find a recorder. The tape revealed to Li Mo that Xiao Yu purposely failed the application test to stay with Li Mo, prompting Li Mo to mourn for his actions. Years later, Li Mo, now taking care of his own motel in a renovated shikumen, sees Xiao Yu in the front door and smiles.
Box Lessons from The Noodle Incident
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I started by reading several Extension publications and then began my all-day project. It took me a long time because (a) I keep a lot of food in my closet pantry (I'm ready for any emergency - culinary, storm or natural disaster) and (b) I should have inspected everything after I saw the firstbugs! Below are my "lessons learned" for protecting food from pests andgetting rid of them if and when you find them.
Everything seems perfect, but when a misunderstanding at the party leads to Needles getting beat up, the incident ruptures the friendship between all three boys. Ali is going to have to figure out how to make things right and how to forgive Noodles for not defending his brother. Ali's boxing coach Malloy and his parents help him learn from his mistakes and gain responsibility for his actions.
These days hardly all hunters are desperately poor individuals. Nonetheless, even organized crime groups specializing in poaching frequently hire local people living on the edge or inside the forest as trackers, guides, and even shooters. In Indonesia, they can be very destitute individuals struggling to eek out a living and support their families, like those in the Moluccas, who will hunt endangered birds for a bowl of noodles a day. Providing them with an alternative means of livelihood is not only important from the perspective of human rights and human security, but also frequently critical for the success of conservation policies.
-- Accordion jams and concerts abound. Boaz hosts weekly drop-in accordion lessons as well as private accordion salons. A couple of weeks ago, Smythe and the Oakland gallery-club 21Grand sponsored two evenings of accordion music ranging from classical to "avant-garde noise-band stuff." Two hundred people showed up each night, Smythe said.
To begin with, some people who fondly remember the accordion from its heyday are now retirement age and have time to noodle around on their old instruments. Their children -- who ruthlessly dismissed everything they considered their parents' bag -- have grown up and grown out of that mind-set. ("I missed out on a lot of things, because I was so busy rejecting things that might be corny," Big Lou said.)
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