Dim sum

Every time I come home from college, my family and I would go out to yumcha or, as directly translated from Cantonese, to “drink tea. However, drinking tea is only one component of yumcha. To yumcha is to converse with company over a meal of many small dishes and hot tea. Going yumcha is social activity brought to the United States by the people from the Guangdong region of China, also known as Cantonese people. When they immigrated to the United States, yumcha became an important tradition because

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Food and beverage key stakeholders support the need for transformation in order for food and beverage companies to survive in a competitive and global market. Din Tai Fung is a restaurant originating in Taiwan, specialising in “Xiao Long Bao” dumplings. Outside its native Taiwan, Din Tai Fung also has branches in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the United States and Thailand. 2. INTRODUCTION Din Tai Fung, the founder Yang Bingyi

A successful advertisement can encourage consumer’s desire to purchase. It is an important way to create meaning by the use of signs in an advertisement. ‘We make meanings through our creation and interpretation of signs’, declares Daniel Chandler (2007:19). According to Saussure (1972), Semiotics involves everything that can be taken as a sign. This essay aims to use Saussure’s theory of signs and Barthes’s study on mythologies to analyse an advert about Suntory oolong tea. This advert is a video

that day to see the Kendrick Lamar exhibit at the LAMOCA, and at my request ate Dim Sum for lunch. I order for us in Cantonese: clear shrimp dumplings, sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves, sweet egg tarts, and of course, steamed pork buns. I have never spoken much Chinese, just some conversational Mandarin, bits and pieces of Shanghai dialect, some handfuls of Cantonese. But I have always known the language of the Dim Sum table. I can even translate the meanings– the little butt-shaped peach buns are

some of the social inequalities that can underpin this. It will briefly introduce conspicuous consumption in relation to the seduced. Secondly supermarket power and monopolies are discussed. Finally it will introduce the concepts of positive and zero sum games in relation to supermarkets. Bauman’s argument is that “society remains unequal and divided today on the basis of whether or not you are in a position to consume effectively” (Allen, 2014, p.275) although he also argues that “the forms of inequality

independent stores. (Allen, p163) To back this up, a survey of small grocery retailers was conducted in 2011, and they identified the main obstacle to their business was competition from the big supermarket chains. (ResPublica, 2011) This amounts to a zero sum game (Wrong, 1997) where the Supermarkets gain is the small stores loss. The involvement of Supermarket chains sourcing cheap labour overseas to keep costs low could be problematic. It is claimed that workers overseas work excessive amounts of hours

hinge on whether the activity subject to enhancement is zero-sum or non-zero-sum, and whether one is more concerned with excellence in process or excellence in outcome. Cognitive enhancement should be especially tolerated when the activities at stake are non-zero-sum and when the importance of process

think through all of the positive and negative possibilities that could happen in a problem and try to maximize the positive. Game theory is not just one theory, throughout the years is has spread into six main games. These games are: zero sum games, non-zero sum games, simultaneous move games,

“Noah, here take her!” standing on a 10 story high building, the lady throws me across. Noah catches me as we both tumble and roll on the roof’s concrete. As he gets up from our rough fall, which felt like we had been tackled by a 600 pound football player, he manages to lift me upon his back as I shake uncontrollably in fear.”Take her fa-” another bomb goes off in the destroyed city as the ashes began floating on us like snow on a winter day. “There’s another protection tunnel on 21 and Shepard’s

One That is Good to Tell but Not to Experience There once was a little girl who liked to take small risks. She never was an outgoing person but she would to do certain things that was the slightest dangerous or not the best choice to take. Everyone makes mistakes every once in a while that might change their life. Back in third grade I lived in a suburb of Chicago called Yorkville. It was a lovely neighborhood and I had so many friends there that I played with almost everyday. I had two friends