This year, the massive new CityCenter development of hotels, condo towers and stores drew the top toques.

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With many of the city's finest table, like Man Wah and Summer Palace, housed in five-star hotels, Chinese chefs regularly rub shoulders with top toques from Europe and America.

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Sara Lee, a Chicago-based multinational that sells both cakes and underwear, as well as soap and shoe polish, is the latest American firm to announce that it will be swapping its toques and thimbles for suits and cellphones.

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Kyocera kitted us out with toques, touch-sensitive gloves and giant black faux-fur coats -- well, Brad chose white -- and led us all into a bar made entirely of ice to launch its new handsets here at CTIA. Kyocera, playing off the tough-guy thing, had the Hydro Xtrm and Edge laid out on slabs of ice in a pretty frosty environment for us to handle with our gloved hands.

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