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Show 5 Monday, Nov. 7,2005 Take Note: A memorial service for the victims of the Ag Tech van accident will be held today in the Spectrum from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. 797-1769 features@statesman.usu.edu Something G R E A T from rom b< Deuon d the W A L L BY JOSH LAW Staff Writer Similar to the what is found in China, Logan, too has a Great Wall. Although Logan's Great Wall may not be able to hold back the invading hordes, it does sell better tasting food than the ancient wonder. After a change in ownership last year, Peter Cai, owner of the local Chinese restaurant Great Wall, said the restaurant underwent intensive remodeling. In Collie 6rover/caUieann@ccMsti.edu the space of a few months, PETER CAI, HEAD CHEF and owner of The Great Wall, talks about his experience as a cook. Cai said it transformed from what was a small, buffet-style eatery into an nearly 13 years after coming one of his instructors taught elegant sit-down restaurant to the United States. that was reopened in May him a very important 2004. An ornately carved lesson in making entrance and paintings the best tasting As not only the new owner, but also the head chef and photos brought from China create at the Great Wall, Cai said an authentic feel for he brings nearly a lifetime visitors to enjoy. of cooking expertise to the Chip table. He said much of his cook- Brockbank a junior studying food. ing experience is derived economics, The lesfrom years of practice while who spent two son taught, in China's Guangdong provyears living and that he ince where he was "taught in Taiwan, has put into the arts and secrets of cooksaid, "Not practice, was that ing" by experienced chefs. only is a chef must always From these individuals, the food use fresh food. Cai said he learned not deliHe said it is not only dishes that are found cious, uncommon for a restauin his home province of but rant to reuse old food, but Guangdong, but he was also the the Great Wall only uses the educated in the preparation freshest and best food. "I've ' of many other fine dishes never had anyone say that that represent a variety of my food did not taste fresh," tastes and flavors found atmoCai said. "If the food isn't throughout China. sphere, fresh, we won't use it." Cai said he came to which Other than the standard America after becomis half of Chinese dishes that can be ing proficient in his the reason ordered from the menu, cooking abilities and people go there is also an all-you-canworked as a chef to a Chinese eat Mongolian barbeque. in California restaurant, is This is any assortment of for about 10 incredible." noodles, meats, vegetables years. Salina and sauces all chosen by the He Jin, a Utah State customer and then fried by University student and his the chef. from Beijing, who is family studying her masters of three The Great Wall is located in second language — now at 25 W. 300 North in teaching said, "Great four — then Logan. Wall is one of the best, if moved to For reservations or more not the best, Chinese resCache Valley information concerning The taurants in Logan." and opened Great Wall, call (435) 755the Great Wall Cai said while he was 0888. studying to become a chef, —jlaw@cc.usu.edu CallieGrover/callieann@(cusu.edu THE GREAT WALL restaurant was remodeled last year by its present owners to change from a buffet style to a sit down restaurant. Under the previous management it was known as Leo's China Town. James S(huitz/$(hult2@ctusu.edu JASMIN A BETTA FISH swins in her tank as Marissa Taylor and Paul Kelly look on. The betta fish: no 'betta' pet BY NATALIE NAYLOR Senior Writer another, so it is best that they are kept alone or in a tank with other species of fish. He said females can be kept together because they are not usually violent., towards each other. '" "If males are placed in the same container, they will shred each other's fins; they will kill each other," No kitty litter, no muddy paws, no shed. -.ding».squawking, barking, meowing or whining. For college students strapped on time, limited on space and regulated by landlords, a betta fish might just be the perfect pet. Wagner said. Betta fish fit the bill Haley Keime, a senior when it comes to finding majoring in international an animal friend for busy studies, has had her betta students. Bettas are somefish for two months. She thing to love, spice up the said she got her betta dorm de"cor and keep com- because two of her roompany with all rolled into mates did, so she wanted one. With little effort, even one, too. the beginner pet owner "I don't really like fish, can keep a betta happy and but my roommates each they will return the favor. got one, so then I wanted According to Adam one," Keime said. "A couWagner, store manager of ple of days later, I went and PetSmart in Logan, betta got mine." fish are good pets for colKeime's betta is female, lege students because they which she said she bought are relatively easy to take because the care of. girls were* Betta a dollar or "I can tell it knows fish only two cheaper eat small when I come into then the amounts males. She jthe room; it starts of food said she has and can enjoyed hav- . reaking out like it live in ing a betta a bowl ts to be fed." as a pet with as and her fish little as Haley Keime recognizes two pints Senior, International when someof water body enters as long as it Studies her room. is cleaned "I can tell about twice a week. it knows when I come into "Bettas can live in the room because it starts almost any container freaking out like it wants because they can breathe to be fed," Keime said. "It's surface air," Wagner said. like a little dog." Wagner said that betKeime said that she tas can do so because of didn't realize how much a unique physical feature she actually liked her betta called a labyrinth, a sacuntil she almost lost it to like organ located just the bathroom drain. Keime above its gills. said she was letting it swim He does suggest, howaround in the bathroom ever, that it is less maintesink while she was cleannance to keep a betta in a ing out its bowl when she tank with a filter so water accidentally opened the changes will be less fredrain and her betta almost quent. went down. In order to Wagner said that both save it, Keime said she had male and female bettas to shut the drain on her come in an array of bright betta to stop it from endcolors, however, the male's ing up in the sewer. colors are usually more "I halfway shut the intense and they have drain so my betta was kind much longer fins. of squished, then I scooted "Betta fish come in it out with my finger, shut blue, red, white and mixed the drain all the way and - pretty much every turned on the •water," color under the rainbow," Wagner said. Wagner said male bettas • COLLEGE PET are aggressive toward one see page 7 |