Raiders of the lost ark: Chinese title

夺宝奇兵

夺 [duó] force one's way; 夺取 seize, capture; 争夺 fight for

宝 [bǎo] treasure

奇 [qí] marvellous, rare, strange

兵 [bīng] (士兵 shìbīng) soldier; 兵力 bīnglì military strength

So that makes us:

夺串儿奇兵

duó chuàn'r qí bīng

Raiders of the lost chuan’r

"Just the chuanr ma'am, just the chuanr."

It even looks like a 串儿

Relations between China and Japan can be a sticky, thorny, mire of pitfalls, salt in old wounds, sibling rivalry and mixed metaphors. None of this should concern us in the least - lest, of course, it comes to matters concerning meat on a stick. The Japanese too are seduced by that holy combination of concatenated flesh. How, you may ponder, could the refined and delicate flower that is the Japanese culinary art deal with the raw power, and sensuality, of the chauanr? To understand this is to understand the gulf that bisects these two disparate north Asian cultures. (No not Korea.) The Japanese Yakitori, derived originally from Chicken - I urge the purists in the audience not to take this too early as a sign of Japanese Chuanistry being deluded at best and depraved at worst - must simply be understood in its context. It is the delicate courtier's daughter to the Chuanr's buxom farm girl - the quiet scholar to the cocksure streetfighter. There is something to be said for both: whilst the Japanese counterpart to the revered lamb staff may lack its westerly cousin's power and windswept desert charm, it is seldom cooked by someone who is picking his nose and the brazier; while there may be no 'love bombs' of pure fat - the melting wagyu is equally capable of widening the glutton's girth; both too will satisfy the drunkard's flesh lusts... well some of them. So dear friends - before fearing a chaste and puritan trip to a land of propriety and order - remember that there too you can sate your chuanrnal desires.

Chuanr Raiding Endemic

The Chuanrnistani government has reported an increase in chuanr related raids into their territory. The incursions from China are drawing ire from the small central Asian republic founded on lamb consumption and small scale bamboo re-manufacture. The foreign minister Ms Itmohr Lahm stated: "Not only do these 'raiders' show a complete disdain for the rule of law, they eat all of our chaun. They are disgusting and rude; they only answer questions when asked in sets of ten, and even then they mostly get the answers wrong." When asked about the level and location of the country's chuanr and nang stockpiles the minister was about to answer when cautioned by an aide and the interview terminated. Chuanistan has posted extra garrisons of white coated youths along the border, but experts say this is unlikely to have the desired result.

A suspected 'Chuanr Raider'.

Reliving Past Glory - The Gold

We captured the gold on 9.11.2007.