I might be wrong, but I seem to recall there's an ICANN fee associated with registration as well.
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Would you also cook food in a frying pan by keeping the pan a few centimetres above the electric burner for the same reason?
That's just insulating the wok with extra steps
The cheapest way to replicate the type of burners used in restaurants is to buy a standalone outdoor propane wok burner. These may or may not be widely available in your country but in America they can be had for less than a hundred dollars and they put out an ungodly amount of heat.
Cantonese person here—electrical equipment is too fragile since Cantonese cooking techniques involve a lot of smacking the wok around.
I'm not saying that those don't work, but I haven't seen any models (even in China) that would survive several hours a day with a Cantonese chef armed with a 2 kg carbon steel wok for more than a week or so.
If you actually bother to read it (regularly, not just once or twice on selected columns that you saw posted online), you would not think that. The opinion column is very neoliberal with a hint of libertarianism.
The Taiwan issue has exactly to do with the fact that sending official diplomatic representatives to it means recognising its legitimacy and sovereignty. Even though most Western countries already believe this, sending the representatives would be to express that they believe this which is what upsets the Chinese government. China doesn't care what people think as long as they keep it to themselves. It's when they get "embarrassed" on the world stage that Chinese leadership thinks it demands action.
It's not about "reforming" him. I'm talking about the fact that if he will at least consider whether a proposal is popular before he does it. If it's within the margin of error or at least close enough to cover it up and pretend, it won't stop him, but if it's overwhelmingly unpopular it will cause him to think twice, but it is not guaranteed to change his mind. Again, this is based on past behaviour which is not necessarily indicative of the future.
I am Chinese, family from the Canton province, whose cuisine forms the basis of many popular overseas Chinese-inspired dishes, I can explain the "why" on this.
In Cantonese cuisine there is a concept called "锅气" or "wokhei". It translates to "breath of the wok". It refers to the distinct flavours and textures that come with an extremely hot flame, because as soon as the food touches the surface of a wok which has been heated to nearly (or past) the smoke point of oil, it cauterises it and causes some interesting chemical reactions. That really means food cooks extremely quickly in that wok and by the time the outside of meat is beginning to overcook, the inside is barely done. That's also why many Cantonese dishes cooked in this manner have thin-sliced meat and not large slabs, because it would be impossible to have good wokhei and also fully cook the meat.
While it is theoretically possible to get good wokhei on an induction or electric burner, in practice it's quite difficult to do so because the cooking technique requires smacking the wok around the stove (which would damage induction and electric stoves) and it also requires the entire wok be hot which is difficult to do on induction and electric burners. That's why they have insane gas burners.
The amount of heat required to sustain the temperature needed for good wokhei is higher than what is commonly possible on home cooking ranges. While typical home methane ranges can output a respectable 5 kW or so of heat output, restaurant-grade wok burners can hit 10-12 kW easily.
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IIRC there's still an ICANN fee that has to be paid by the registrar per domain registered