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Street food from Panama, Mandoo from Korea, and a Hot Pot Video from Shanghai

#1: From Korea: Kimchi Mamas and a recipe to prepare Mandoo, the easy to prepare Korean dumplings!

If you've never made mandoo before, it really isn't hard. The dumpling-making is the most time-consuming part. Once they are made,
you simmer the mandoo gently in a pork-beef-chicken broth (yes, all three) until they float and then maybe a minute more. Reserve some
chicken meat from the broth to garnish the soup later. You can cook about a dozen at one time. Continue reading…

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Free Kareem: Egyptian Bloggers Speak Out

Amira Al Hussaini · 13:37

lingua → fr

The sentencing of Egyptian blogger Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman to four years in prison for articles he wrote in his personal blog may have come as a shock to many around the world, but for Egyptian bloggers the lesson is just too close to home for comfort.

Kareem was sentenced by an Alexandria Court to four years in prison - three for blasphemy against Islam and one for insulting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

For blogger Ala'a Abdulfattah, who was himself imprisoned last year for his political activism, it is the one year Kareem was sentenced for insulting the President that struck a raw nerve.

عبد الكريم خد 4 سنين حبس

3 سنين على تهمة ازدراء الأديان و سنة على تهمة اهانة السيد الرئيس

بيقولك مرة واحد قرر يرشح نفسه رئيس الجمهورية، مسكوه بتوع أمن الدولة و قالولوا أنت عبيط ولا ايه، قالهم هو شرط؟

الناس اللي كانت بتشجع محاكمة و حبس عبد الكريم، يا ريت تركزوا شوية على حتة سنة حبس على تهمة اهانة الرئيس دي، يا ريت تاخدوا بالكم كويس من معناها. و تفكروا كويس دي لما تعدي بالساهل كده ممكن تستخدم ثاني ضد مين و ضد كام حد في مصر.

فكروا كويس في عاقبة حبس الكافر الزنديق الكخة بتهمة اهانة الرئيس.

“Abdulkareem has been sentenced to four years behind bars, three years for contempt against religion and one for insulting the president. They say that one day someone decided to run for president. The secret police caught him and asked him whether he was stupid. The man replied: Is that a must? I had just hoped that the people who were rallying for Abdulkareem's trial and imprisonment had focused just a little on this small part which says that he will be spending a year in prison for insulting the president. I hope you will pay attention here with me. I hope that you will think that when a sentence like this is passed without a fuss just like that, against how many other people in Egypt will this excuse be used again. Think again of the consequences of imprisoning the dirty infidel for insulting the president,” he writes.

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Iraq - Life, Death, Rape and Execution

Salam Adil · 13:16

Stories of life in Iraq have been so varied this past week. In this post I hope to give a cross section on how life is for Iraqis in a world of violence and general insecurity.

My condolences go out to Konfused Kid whose uncle, the only Shia in the Kids Sunni family, was killed by one of the rockets aimed by Shia militias against Sunni districts of Baghdad. Although Konfused Kid may not want my condolences. He writes:

“I woke up at 7 AM the next day, my mother came and told me immediately….I have cried like crazy over my four dead friends, and I was very upset about the death of a number of people, but that day I glanced uninterestingly…and then I shrugged, I said: ‘Serves him right. He should've went out of the hellhole a long time ago.' … Death is to us a fact of life - examine the beautiful irony in the previous sentence.”

I also pass my sincerest condolences to ANarki 13 who lost two members of his family in as many days. He writes: “it's hard to lose a close someone. its hard not to be there for someone in his/her final hours. its hard to finally be there and have that someone die in your arms. its hard to bury someone with your own hands. life is hard. death is even harder. but it is much more peaceful.”
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Kuwait: From Novel Ads to the History of Bloggers

Abdullatif AlOmar · 13:05

Q from Kuwaitism takes us on a flash back in time to when advertisements in Kuwait were creative and attractive.

This time I’ll post an ad for Kuwait Airways that I liked a lot, when they first started their route to Paris back in 1965.

Yet we are pulled back from the good old days to the present, where people like snookie, who is trying to get her friend to visit Kuwait is faced with ‘Intercultural Stereotyping.'

Her mom has been telling her ridiculous things that she says she got from the internet. Things like getting arrested for taking photographs, being kidnapped, beaten up and some other really crazy stuff. I keep telling my friend that all that is ridiculous.

The Stallion, a guy with a passion for animals (the name isn't a hint at all), reminds us that The Protecting Animal Welfare Society
2nd Annual PAWS for The Cause Dog Show is near.

Join for a host of activities including; advice on pet health from ‘Ask the Vets’ stall; take part in fun dog shows (and win a much coveted winner’s rosette); shop for pet products; visit the bric a brac stalls for a bargain or two; lunch on a tasty snack; Strut your Mutt for other pet owners to admire, or picnic with your pooch in the verdant shade of the Embassy gardens.

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Russia: One Blogger's Dream Come True

Veronica Khokhlova · 08:00

LJ user bogomolov (Aleksandr Bogomolov, a Russian journalist) shares this story about a dream come true (RUS):

An old joke, very good, very clever:

Two Soviet violinists are in the same train compartment, on the way back home from abroad, from an international music competition. The first one, a “plainclothes” violinist [an undercover KGB agent], finished last, but is happy in general. The second one is a very promising young man - he came in second and is pulling his hair in despair. To console him, the first one says:

- Why are you so upset? Second place isn't that bad…
- You see, the man who won was allowed to play [Niccolo Paganini's] violin.
- So what?
- Let me explain to you. For me, to play Paganini's violin is like for you to shoot from [Felix Dzerzhinsky's Mauser].

Well, yesterday I had a chance to shoot from a Dzerzhinsky's Mauser of my own - I played hockey on the ice of the [Luzhniki] Small Sports Arena.

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