Enter the all-purpose tou, the butchers and venders who mastered that practical but scary implement, and the substantial savings in fuel that the quick stir-frying of tou-cut food provided.
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Tou Chou-seng, Taipei's former ambassador to the Holy See, says the new Pope will continue contacts with Beijing but is unlikely to cut diplomatic ties with Taipei.
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It was the tou the wide, well-honed, flat-edged whacker of a knife that Chinese cooks used for everything from butchering to dicing and fine slicing and the chopstick, which, in the Song era, came into common use.