It bites back: the fulsome, salty tang of long-simmered meat sauce is soon brutally frogmarched away from my tastebuds by the capsicum heavy mob.

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But having such an impressive building shows potential customers "that we will be here for the long term, " Jack Tang, president of Sany's U.S. arm, said in an interview.

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