We were driving by, saw the restaurant door open, so we impulse bought a take-away. It just opened yesterday after a cheap and cheerful makeover by new owners, the makeover seemed to take a long time.
It's also a sit - in. We got a quarter duck with 6 pancakes, hoi sin sauce, scallions and cucumber, salted chilli, boneless pork chops, chicken satay with a lot of chicken (too
much cooking oil) and boiled rice. All in all just under £25. It's been a long time since we bought a Chinese in town and likely will be a long time before we go again.
The food was actually quite good, decent portions too, for our town, staff were real friendly but take-out is cash only and it's a nuisance really. Sit-in is payable by credit card.
Game of Trump continues apace. Episode 74 was a special. Ya know 108 billion people have lived on this planet and we end up sharing space with this capricious finagler.
The dude sure can lie sincerely. If one accepts at face value the chart he brandished during his speech - the one on a bit of cardboard claiming the EU imposes a 39% tariff on US exports - then perhaps there is some element of generosity at play.
While that bloc does impose steep tariffs - exceeding 30% - on certain agricultural products like dairy, the weighted average tariff on American goods hovers around just 3%. This makes Mr Trump's 20% tariff neither kind, nor reciprocal, just untruthful.
If you were to read the small print on the chart, you'd spot that their calculations mysteriously incorporate "Currency Manipulation and Trade Barriers".
Tellingly, the administration hasn't released their methodology other than to confirm suspicions they used a formula that divides a country's trade deficit by their exports. That blunt ratio really isn't an appropriate way of calculating tariffs.
The formula essentially allows them to fold in virtually anything they dislike about a trading partner from VAT, to regulatory differences, to alleged exchange rate manipulation. These are what Mr Trump has been referring to as "non-tariff barriers".
I doubt these tariffs can achieve his goals without severely damaging the very economy they're meant to protect but worry ye not the USA's billionaires, millionaires and politicians have protected themselves very well indeed.
No doubt we'll see a few more Trumpugees arriving here to escape the eejit. He's doing as much damage to businesses with the uncertainty he maintains. I've no doubt he's angling to do away with free and fair elections too and by that time E Musk may be too toxic to run a whelk stall. read more