14-05-2005 06:04									#121
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Everyone has fresh made to order sandwiches and have since the dark ages. The question is do you have good fast ethnic food besides kabobs?

Depends what you mean by ethnic. Do takeaways count? If so indian and chinese would count as fast ethnic food. If you're counting American as standard (ie non ethnic), fish and chips would be ethnic, but obviously a stretch being that it's British.

But then, I don't consider a sandwich made with marinated pork to be ethnic. It's a sandwich. Would be like calling a chicken madras sandwich ethnic.

	14-05-2005 12:53									#122
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quote: Hmmm... I prefer sushi over sashimi but chirashi is the best.

Chirashi is a type of sushi.

	14-05-2005 12:58									#123
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So the difference between sushi and sashimi is vinegar?

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	14-05-2005 13:00									#124
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Vinegared rice. Sashimi is raw fish. Sushi is a variety of things served with vinegared rice. Doesn't always have to be raw fish, but that's the most common.

	14-05-2005 13:06									#125
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Ah, gotcha.

I didn't read that part correctly.

Sashimi can be Sushi(nigiri zushi), but sushi isn't Sashimi.

Sashimi isn't for me but Sushi could be.

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	14-05-2005 13:07									#126
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quote: Sashimi can be Sushi(nigiri zushi)

No, as soon as you add the rice it stops being sashimi and becomes sushi. Sashimi is raw fish by itself.

	14-05-2005 13:09									#127
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Yeah, sushi has lots of stuff mixed with vinigaredsticky rice which normally has been made into a roll covered by a mat made of pressed seaweed. Sashimi is just what Drake said, cut up select pieces of raw fish or other sea life such as octipus or sea cucumber. My favorite is the buttery tasting flesh of a blue fin tuna's underbelly.

You never guess it but there are huge flavor differences depending up exactly where on the fish the cut of meat came from. In western society to often fish is fish is fish while we have a million names for different cuts of beef or pork or lamb. The Japanese are the opposite.

	14-05-2005 13:10									#128
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It's 3 A.M. I am only getting half of what I read.



Time for bed.....

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quote: My favorite is the buttery tasting flesh of a blue fin tuna's underbelly.

Toro. Delicious, but expensive.

My favorite is yellowtail tuna, either buri (adult) or hamachi (young).

quote: Sashimi is just what Drake said, cut up select pieces of raw fish or other sea life such as octipus or sea cucumber.

I forgot to mention that most, but not all sashimi is served raw. Octopus and squid are cooked beforehand.

	15-05-2005 05:06									#130
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten quote: Hmmm... I prefer sushi over sashimi but chirashi is the best. Chirashi is a type of sushi.

Different enough to qualify for it's own name...

	15-05-2005 08:21									#131
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quote: Different enough to qualify for it's own name...

There's no such thing as just "sushi". All the different types have their own name: nigiri-zushi, maki-zushi, chirashi-zushi, battera-zushi, etc...

	16-05-2005 20:53									#132
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Except the "Arabic numerals" are not Arabic. Traditionally, Arabs use Hindi numberals. The only Arab countries to use western numberals are ones which were latter colonized by the west.

What I'm saying is that "1,2,3,4" etc are arabic. And that's what we use. Where would we be without the arabs eh?

	16-05-2005 20:55									#133
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nice pics lancer

	16-05-2005 20:56									#134
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paiktis, maybe we will go back this winter, maybe next. You're always invited...

	16-05-2005 21:38									#135
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thanks

	16-05-2005 21:38									#136
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I wanna go.

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Che, I'll make lots noise before we go, and you're invited so just chime in and we'll happily keep a room open for you.

	16-05-2005 21:52									#138
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Aren't you only supposed to bring marriagable young men so that all the Filipinas can move their families to America?

	16-05-2005 21:53									#139
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How'd you end up in the Phils in the first place?

	17-05-2005 06:22									#140
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He snores louder than I do. You were warned.

	17-05-2005 06:56									#141
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Che, I got sick of western women and went looking for a real lady. Not that there aren't real ladies here, but they're all married or hiding or something.

Theben, that's not possible. He would blow a lung if that were the case. )

	17-05-2005 09:15									#142
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quote: $200k does sound pretty nice

Jesus. My folks' three bedroom, fairly big yard, in the city, all that cost $90,000.

I know some of it has to do with income being higher in CA, but you can just look at the data and see that something is screwed up with CA houses:

zip code 71701 median household income $29660

quote: Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2000 in zip code 71701: Less than $10,000: 161 $10,000 to $14,999: 132 $15,000 to $19,999: 201 $20,000 to $24,999: 210 $25,000 to $29,999: 223 $30,000 to $34,999: 369 $35,000 to $39,999: 338 $40,000 to $49,999: 538 $50,000 to $59,999: 473 $60,000 to $69,999: 479 $70,000 to $79,999: 439 $80,000 to $89,999: 350 $90,000 to $99,999: 208 $100,000 to $124,999: 139 $125,000 to $149,999: 148 $150,000 to $174,999: 86 $175,000 to $199,999: 55 $200,000 to $249,999: 56 $250,000 to $299,999: 47 $300,000 to $399,999: 0 $400,000 to $499,999: 6 $500,000 to $749,999: 0 $750,000 to $999,999: 0 $1,000,000 or more: 0

zip code 92117 (any random one for or around San Diego) median household income $47245

quote: Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2000 in zip code 92117: Less than $10,000: 0 $10,000 to $14,999: 0 $15,000 to $19,999: 7 $20,000 to $24,999: 14 $25,000 to $29,999: 5 $30,000 to $34,999: 8 $35,000 to $39,999: 9 $40,000 to $49,999: 13 $50,000 to $59,999: 8 $60,000 to $69,999: 0 $70,000 to $79,999: 0 $80,000 to $89,999: 32 $90,000 to $99,999: 44 $100,000 to $124,999: 201 $125,000 to $149,999: 343 $150,000 to $174,999: 1023 $175,000 to $199,999: 2076 $200,000 to $249,999: 3812 $250,000 to $299,999: 1758 $300,000 to $399,999: 1094 $400,000 to $499,999: 435 $500,000 to $749,999: 164 $750,000 to $999,999: 12 $1,000,000 or more: 30

That is not sustainable. When do the experts say the bubble will pop?

	17-05-2005 09:50									#143
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Of course it's sustainable! People actually want to live in California, unlike Arkansas.

	17-05-2005 11:00									#144
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Bubbbles in residential real estate tend not to "pop" because it is an illiquid investment. Unlike stocks, people can panic and rush to sell. They have to live somewhere, so they "ride" the decline down.

So when this market is overheated (which I think it is now), the correction comes in the form of a flattening or a slow decline in market value.

	17-05-2005 16:39									#145
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That's not sustainable? Have at look at the UK. Our average house price is close to $300,000, and if you look at a city or some southerly region, you'd be talking a lot higher. My parents house is nothing of the extravagance that Kuci's seems, but it's worth ~$600,000.

	17-05-2005 16:50									#146
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/union...24calhomes.html

Prices are still surging in the state but the rate of increase has slowed down a bit. Over all the state wide average home price is now $421,000 as of the end of April which is up from $407,000 at the end of February. That's a 3.4% rise in two months with the over all rise from March 2004 to March 2005 of 19.3%.

I've never been so happy to be a home owner.

	17-05-2005 16:56									#147
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quote: Originally posted by Zkribbler Bubbbles in residential real estate tend not to "pop" because it is an illiquid investment. Unlike stocks, people can panic and rush to sell. They have to live somewhere, so they "ride" the decline down. So when this market is overheated (which I think it is now), the correction comes in the form of a flattening or a slow decline in market value.

the only problem with it is that people take a big second morgage with the price is to high and then have problems with paying it back...right?(or something like that)

	17-05-2005 17:10									#148
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They certainly must devote more of their income to housing expenses.

	17-05-2005 18:05									#149
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There does seem to be a bubble in some areas. People are fleeing the coast in an attempt to find affordable housing and prices are rocketing up. In Riverside County (east of Orange County for you Chopper Fans ) prices went up 26.3% in the last year. My sister and her family own a house there and everyone has made around $100k in the last year. Mean while in San Bernardino County (east of LA) prices rose an amazing 34.8% in the last year.

The prices rises are being caused by two main factors 1) the rising population due to both immigration and natural population growth 2) the over all economy is pretty good and everyone seems to want to buy now before interest rates go up.

	17-05-2005 20:51									#150
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin The prices rises are being caused by two main factors 1) the rising population due to both immigration and natural population growth 2) the over all economy is pretty good and everyone seems to want to buy now before interest rates go up.

And because a bunch of people see the prices going up so fast and want to get in on a rising market. They're jumping aboard the ol' Zkribbler investment strategy: buy high, sell low.