About 10 days ago it was reported that steamed buns in China’s capital were being made with cardboard and pork flavouring. It was then announced earlier this week that the ‘cardboard baozi‘ story was a hoax created by a... ...full story at Lost Laowai
from Lost Laowai on Sun, Jul 22 2007
see also:
| 07 Sep 07 |
  |
Shanghai Cardboard Collector »
YouTube video Pushing his bicycle laden with cardboard and plastic bags, this man goes about his day as he seeks to make ends meet. |
| 19 Jul 07 |
 |
China: Fake News On Cardboard Buns » Global Voices Last night, Beijing News Channel reported that the Cardboard Buns was a faked news directed by one of their reporter who made a public statement that he had paid the hawker to make the cardboard Buns or Baozi. However, Nu Qui Lu-wei from 1510 wondered... |
| 12 Jul 07 |
|
Recipe for Cartonboard Baozi » China Snippets Products from China are lately in the limelight. Toothpaste that kills, food for kittens that kills, fake water in the water coolers in Beijing and now steamed pork buns (baozi) made from cardboard have popped up. A bakery in Beijing sold pork buns that... |
| 19 Jul 07 |
|
On the trail of the bogus steamed buns » Tim Johnson So are they going to execute the reporter? Turns out that China says that story you may have seen last week about a snack vendor in Beijing who was putting chopped cardboard in his steamed buns rather than minced pork... |
| 22 Jul 07 |
|
Fake fake buns maybe not fake after all? » Shanghaiist Despite some pretty damning arguments regarding the plausibility of blending cardboard and caustic soda into baozi, steamed pork buns, the internets are chattering again: Government conspiracy and cover-up! The fake buns being fake is itself fake! It's... |
| 12 Jul 07 |
 |
Eatery closed for selling cardboard-stuffed buns » Shanghai Daily BEIJING authorities yesterday closed a dim-sum restaurant that sold steamed cardboard-stuffed buns, Beijing Times reported today. |
twitter
blogs
china
thailand
japan
technology