Lovers of good cuisine can be thankful for the collapse two years ago of Maria's, one of Hong Kong's most famous chains of cake shops.

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Paris and Hong Kong, both centers of haute cuisine, have the world's two busiest Pizza Hut outlets.

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On "Dance Mania" he superimposes the mambo on the old Charleston favorite "The Varsity Drag, " and uses Chinoiserie effects on "Hong Kong Mambo, " an East-West dish that reminds me of the cuisine served in the Cuban-Chinese restaurants that proliferated in New York in the 1970s.

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