Fast Food

Lip-smacking profits in smuggling KFC to Gazans

17 May 2013

Fast-food starved Gazans can now order home-delivered Kentucky Fried Chicken, thanks to a new smuggling service which brings takeout from Egypt via a network of underground tunnels. It is not...

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Fast food nutrition levels in US 'unchanged in 14 years'

9 May 2013

Fast food restaurants in the US have failed to raise the nutritional value of their dishes in 14 years, despite pledges to offer healthy choices, researchers say. The global obesity crisis and...

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World's best fast food found at London Boy Scout hut

30 Apr 2013

A restaurant in a former Scout hut in east London serves a pizza that is the most delicious fast food item in the world, according to voters in the Chowzter Fast Feast awards. Story Deli took the...

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Hunger for Western food and fashion grows in Pakistan

4 Mar 2013

The rupee may have nosedived, a third of the population may live in poverty and sectarian violence may be at a record high, but remarkably, consumer spending is up among a resilient elite fond of...

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Western food blamed for rise in Crohn's disease in Japan

15 Feb 2013

The rising consumption of Western foods is predicted to trigger a rapid increase in Crohn's disease among Japanese people more used to a diet that is heavy in fish, vegetables and rice.

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Study links fast food linked to childhood asthma

15 Jan 2013

Children who frequently eat fast food are far likelier to have severe asthma compared to counterparts who tuck into fruit, a large international study published on Monday said.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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McDonald’s to become 'Macca’s' in Australia

Global fast food chain McDonald’s is embracing its Australian nickname Down Under, with selected stores around the country changing their signage on Tuesday to “Macca’s”.

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Briefs, December 24, 2012

Dozens of people were killed and wounded in an air strike on a bakery in Syria's central Hama province yesterday, activists said, with some reporting up to 200 dead.

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Hongkongers' love affair with fried food spikes cholesterol levels, says survey

A survey of Hongkongers’ eating habits has shown that 83 per cent of respondents frequently eat high-cholesterol food, consuming cholesterol amounts way over health practitioners’ daily...

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Food & drink

Truc

When I was in California a couple of months ago, I ordered a hamburger in a restaurant, asking for it to be cooked medium-rare. I was told I couldn't have it that way because they only...

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Hong Kong's finest late-night nosh

Software developer John Chapman regularly eats dinner after midnight, courtesy of a job with unusual hours, one that requires testing software on real-time financial market data overseas.

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It's a bunfight

On any given Friday or Saturday, Lan Kwai Fong is carpeted with drinkers, the smarter among them eating something pre-pint, while others turn to a midnight snack.

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