Tomato in Chinese is Xi Hong Shi, "Xi" means west, "Hong" means red and "Shi" sounds like city.

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That evening , the Lindens, their two sons and I feasted on a local version of the classic hong shao yu (red-cooked fish), fried until golden then braised in a soy-based sauce with fragrant seasonings like star anise, cinnamon and chili paste.

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Red Chips are Hong Kong-listed offshore subsidiaries of Chinese state-owned enterprises.

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As Jardine Fleming, a Hong Kong stockbroker, points out, the creation of red chips is merely a continuation of a trend that began in the early 1970s with a big increase in the number of listed companies controlled by Hong Kong Chinese families.

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Hong Kong has seen fewer and fewer major listings on its once red-hot share market.

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Andy Xie, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong, points out that if foreign creditors don't roll over debts for red-chip companies, most of which are severely overstretched financially, the latter could start going under too.

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In Hong Kong for the opening of a traveling retrospective of her work, she arrived at the exhibition, her characteristic red hair contrasting with her pale complexion, with a small entourage of suitably fashionable and vaguely mysterious looking characters in tow.

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