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At the China Internet Information Center, editors answer questions from readers in the tone of a patient librarian. In response to a request for fish recipes, they offer one in which the finished fish "beautifully resembles the shape of a squirrel." The site also includes letters from readers offering opinions on more contentious topics � opinions that seem to line up perfectly with those of China's leaders.

I gotta ask 'em about a recipe. We just had cheese nan for supper with leftover Chinese veggies. Inauthentic as hell, probably. I'm still pining for the chicken biryani that we had in Jurong yea these many years ago. Probably nothing like what this woman's talking about. The recipes I see for biryani all seem to have nuts and raisins, and what we had was just chicken and rice, but it was delicious. We can't seem to get the spices to say what we want to. as far as inauthentic goes, the naan we had in Beijing was pretty good.