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    Ok here is the deal, I am not paying 150 USD a bowl for something that is rather tasteless. The shark fin soup is nothing but a con -- It has no other purpose other than something for the pretentious to show off their wealth.



    Obama in hot water over shark fin soup
    Obama in hot water over shark fin soup - Yahoo! News

    It was the sort of visit made for cameras, but President Barack Obama's stop at a Chinese restaurant came under scrutiny on Friday after the menu showed that it served shark fin.

    Obama, in San Francisco for fund-raisers, on Thursday surprised and delighted lunch-time diners with a surprise stop at a restaurant in Chinatown. He posed for pictures and paid in cash for two bags of take-out food.

    But a look at the menu of the restaurant, Great Eastern, showed that it offered soup from shark fin, a Chinese delicacy that environmentalists say is pushing the ancient fish to the point of extinction.

    White House spokesman Jay Carney said that no one on the staff had been aware of the issue until seeing media reports on Friday and that Obama had not ordered shark.

    "The president enjoyed his visit to Chinatown, and, as you know, ordered a lot of dim sum takeout. No soup," Carney told reporters on Air Force One.

    Environmentalists say that tens of millions of sharks are killed each year as fishermen slice off their fins for dinner tables, leaving them to die in the water. Sharks have few offspring, compounding risks to their survival.

    The United States banned finning in its waters in 2000. Obama in January 2011 signed the Shark Conservation Act that toughened regulations by banning imports of fins that are not attached to corresponding shark carcasses.

    While the federal law did not ban shark fins themselves, California Governor Jerry Brown in October signed a bill that barred the sale, trade and possession of shark fins. However, restaurants in San Francisco and elsewhere in California can still sell existing stocks of shark fin until July 2013.

    Rebecca Regnery, deputy director of wildlife for Humane Society International, said that shark fin was still on offer at a majority of large Chinese restaurants in cities with large Asian populations.

    She said that her group had special cards which it encouraged diners to fill out and send to restaurants if they find shark fin.

    "Usually the restaurants say we're happy not to serve it, but then everyone is going to go to our competitor and because of demand we're obligated to serve it," she said.

    "If it's the opposite, and people go to a competitor that does not serve shark fin, then it starts making economic sense to take it off the menu," she said.
    “the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all” -- Joan Robinson

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    Nobody really cares about Obama and sharkfin soup. Lay out the menu, Andy. S.E. 82nd Ave used to be the domain of the Vietnamese restaurants...and still is but it blew up with Cantonese places while I was living in Bend. Andy pointed out to me some really good dim sum and seafood to be had. Still a relative bargain to eating at places like McCormick & Schmick.

    Btw, don't know if it's true but had a guide tell me the other day that spring chinook is bringing $35 a lb. Ridiculous but this guy said (and his father and him might be the best guides on the Columbia/Cowlitz rivers in the area) his reservations for spring chinook outings were through the roof this year despite the economy.
    "This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
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      S2,

      It has been crazy busy here but another food venture in SE is way overdue.
      “the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all” -- Joan Robinson

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        The shark fin soup is not a single case,where is the demand,there must be some people to do it.Not only in China,for all human,what we do is just to satisfy our needs without the consideration of the environment.the global warming,the species extinctions,the acid rain, all of these are blamed for human.but even now people still damage the environment for their development.maybe one day they will find the real 2012 caused by themselves coming to destory themselves.

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          Andy,

          "It has been crazy busy here but another food venture in SE is way overdue."

          At your leisure. You've been uber-busy with grad school and work and my work schedule has blown up too. Very, very happy though and I DEFINITELY owe you one. Drop a line when things open up. Has to be a weekend, though.

          Maybe some place big enough to spread the noise or quiet enough to hear. Had a hard time doing anything but eat at the last place. Amazingly noisy, even for a chinese place.

          Food was excellent at both places. Really pleased with how S.E. 82nd has developed.
          "This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
          "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs

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