The meat was fresh and tender and the sauce was hot, sour, spicy and savory all at once.

WSJ: Cormorant Fishing in Yunnan Province, China

Even street food is being gentrified: at Quan An Ngon in Ho Chi Minh city, bejewelled ladies wash down their stuffed pancakes and hot-and-sour soup with sips of chardonnay.

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Our savory dishes are more salty, our hot dishes are more hot, our sweet dishes are more sweet, our sour things are more sour.

CNN: Indian master chef gets fresh at 'world's best restaurant'

When his stint at Tannadice ended on a sour note with his sacking by Eddie Thompson in March 2005, he took the managerial hot-seat at Queen of the South in November of that year.

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