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Ma Fuxiang

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"What, no more? Tell the cook we require ten more courses."
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Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 272. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28. 

 
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