Allow the chef to prepare a balanced meal composed of five essential dishes: Thai salad (yum), chilli relish (kreung jim), stir fry (jan phat), curry (keng) and soup (nahm keng).

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Located on the fourth floor of the Five-Star Peninsula Chicago, Shanghai Terrace dishes up Chinese cuisine (you can order from a slew of small plate options outside) served by a waitstaff dressed in traditional Chinese garb.

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Residents can attend culture and cooking classes organized by Mori: One Halloween-themed class featured pumpkin-based dishes demonstrated by the head chef from a restaurant at the five-star Grand Hyatt Tokyo, located in Mori's Roppongi Hills development.

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Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

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