Baghdad gets a taste for takeaway Chinese
(AFP) The sign, written in both Arabic and Chinese characters and hoisted above a bland yellow shop front in Baghdad's popular Karrada neighborhood, is hard to miss-"Chinese Restaurant.
A young woman wearing skintight jeans, her hair blowing in the slight breeze, is sweeping the entrance. "Welcome!" she says in halting English. Yan returns inside and joins the three others involved in the venture-all Chinese: her husband Tsao, who owns the restaurant, Lo and Wo. Tsao attends to customers, Lo and Wo do the cooking and Yan handles the...
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