The bad weather does not bode well for Chinese inflation, as important agricultural products like cabbage and rape leaf prices have risen 16.1% and 18.2%, respectively, in the May 21 to May 30 period because of the drought, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

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What is more, Zynga depends on two other firms, Amazon and Facebook, like the cabbage crop depends on the rain.

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Hairy nosed wombats often choose to dig their burrows, made up of a series of tunnels, below these acacia trees, also known as stinking wattle as they smell like sour cabbage.

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This is then topped with cabbage and an egg, just like you would find in any donburi eatery in Japan.

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Fully appreciating this music requires the high pitch of concentration usually found in a concert hall (eating stuffed cabbage while the band plays would be like juggling and riding a bicycle at the same time), and yet it also demands the kind of intimate connection between musician and audience that's only possible in a nightclub like Birdland.

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Dishes include short paccheri pasta with chickpeas, red shrimp and cardamom powder, alongside signature dishes like grilled, marinated partridge with cabbage, celeriac and herbs.

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Specialities like duck stuffed with apple and pork with pickled cabbage are substantial and big on flavour.

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Some have described it as smelling like rotten eggs while have others have detected notes of stale cabbage.

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Initially intended to imitate the petit four, it is really like a mini pirojki with Lebanese fillings such as minced shishtaouk instead of the traditional Russian cabbage or potato.

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