Sentence examples for fan tan from inspiring English sources
Far from being a long-term Cardiff City fan, Tan has acknowledged he did not even know the rules of football when he took over.
Highlights included fresh Maine lobster with capers, filet mignon, herb-buttered fan tan rolls and macaroon ice cream balls with brandied apricot sauce.
The pocket-size Chinatown centered on Fisgard Street is packed with dim sum restaurants, cafes and knickknack stores and includes the four-foot-wide Fan Tan Alley, above, which the city says is the narrowest street in North America.
With the more conventionally New Wavish trio Fan Tan and Schooner, a winning five-piece retro-pop group from Chapel Hill that has an all-enveloping, mildly psychedelic sound.
Other downtown attractions include neighbourhoods such as Canada's first Chinatown, with its noted Fan Tan Alley (known as Canada's narrowest street) and Gate of Harmonious Interest (1981); Bastion Square (the site of historic Fort Victoria, now razed); and other districts, all within walking distance of one another.
Somehow, the musical, in this version, manages to have at least four floor-show numbers, and Longbottom tops himself with "Fan Tan Fannie," in which the leggy Sandra Allen bumps and grinds her Asian-American heart out as a bevy of disembodied red and black fans keep time behind her.
Fan-tan should not be confused with the sequential card game fan-tan.
The latest discovery is "Fan-Tan," a novel he cowrote about pirates in the South Seas.
Asian casinos offer several traditional Far Eastern games, primarily sic bo (which spread to several European and American casinos during the 1990s), fan-tan, and pai-gow.
Sonny Mehta, of Knopf, apparently bought the manuscript of the novel, Fan-Tan, originally conceived as a film treatment, at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair.
BACK in the day, when Chinatown was just three mean streets, Doyers was the kink in it, a dogleg alley barely 200 yards long, its tenements riddled with fan-tan houses and opium dens, its cobbles sweating whiskey and camphor.
