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Was at Bubba’s this weekend.  Every year for the fourth year in a row, the Chili Cookoff is held at Bubba’s Texas Saloon.  Teams from both restaurants in Shanghai to individuals & groups sign up to cook in the cookoff, competing for Best Chili as judged by the judges, as well as Peoples’ Choice.  The people’s choice award tends to go to the team with the most flair, or in some cases, the ones who gives out the most shots.
Anyways, below are some pics.  The rest are on my Picasa Photo Gallery.

Me with Lacy (left) and Cindy (center) two of the hottest waitresses in China!

Tabasco, the 2009 Judges' Pick

Chris, Cap't Jack et al.

They were also in the band.

Ken, also known as the "Bubba" of Bubba's Texas Saloon

Philip, Lars, Bob & Janet, from left to right.

After reading this link on Huffington Post, I decided to see what Google thinks of other people & places. Interesting to find what Google Suggest has to say about China.

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Another year, another Super Bowl spent at Bubba’s Texas Saloon, another Steelers Win! I’m ecstatic that Pittsburgh won again, their 2nd Super Bowl I’ve seen at Bubba’s! Congratulations, guys! Hell of a game, and one HELL of a fantastic last second play in the first half! Great job, James Harrison!

I’m still a Bears fan. Don’t let all that fool you! But I do like my Pennsylvania teams!

Wow, I should really post! Been to Yangshuo but the wife has all the pics on her compy. Went through a summer term working days for a change, company’s growing and all that, saw pics of Sienna in her knickers (her fault. she blogged them!), quit smoking again, started smoking again, quit again, joined a softball league, 2nd best team in Shanghai, and that’s even after taking body shots from hookers’ belly buttons, sucked at Golden Tee, watched the Olympics (did I mention they’re OVER in 2 days?), regained my special “insomnia” skill, permed it too, I think, and lots of other stuff. Will have to update, I suppose.

Yeah yeah, I know. The Bears lost. But still, the party over at Bubba’s Texas Barbecue & saloon, (2262 Hong Qiao Lu by the Hongqiao Marriott) was pretty good. The place was absolutely packed, with half the place rabidly cheering on the Bears, and the others saying something about the Colts. They offered up a good breakfast of spare ribs & soft tacos, along with beer, martinis, bloody marys & other drinks (yes, all at 7:30 in the morning!)

KJ, the proprietor of Bubba’s also ordered up his own halftime show complete with dancing girls. The girls, however were a bit lacking, and at least the upstairs crowd didn’t seem to pay too much attention. But then again, with all the people, they didn’t exactly have the room to perform in the first place. Whatever… it was a good time, and KJ did promise that next year’s party would be better (suggesting that the downstairs crowd wasn’t too into it either.

… and we have to watch it at 5:30 in the morning, MONDAY MORNING! One of the drawbacks of living on the other side of the world is the timezone difference. While everyone else back in Warren is sleeping, I’m working (or playing computer games when the boss isn’t looking). When I’m calling NFG#2 Federal Credit Union about my balance, it’s at midnight. When I ring up WCCBI (even though I’ve never ring up WCCBI, it just sounds cool to say that) it’s at 11 at night, sometimes from a bar. And when mom rings me up in the morning, I’m generally out somewhere else (probably at the bar.) The time difference for Shanghai is either 11 or 12 hours ahead of Warren, depending on Daylight Savings, which isn’t used here.

On the upside, it’ll give a whole bunch of us a reason to head over to the Big Bamboo bar for the big Steelers game! Granted I’m a Bears (& sometimes Vikings) fan, but if the Steelers are going to Detroit, then I’m going to the Big Bamboo at 5:30am for some bloody mary’s and the game!

Go STEELERS!!!