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The Menu Stealer

It’s been a busy week at work, but it’s great to see one long-term project finally coming to fruition: today ChinesePod released the long-awaited first episode of its new video series, The Menu Stealer: The Menu Stealer - episode 1: Guilin... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Tue, Apr 14 2009

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