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Cardboard Main Ingredient Chinese Food - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 6th Oct, 2007 - 1:49pm
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Cardboard: Main Ingredient In Chinese Food
This is one of the most disgusting things I heard in a while. Something about Chinese food makes me not trust it 100%. Everywhere you go, you always hear issues of Chinese restaurants but this is ridiculous!
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| BEIJING - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said. The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation. Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate. State TV's undercover investigation features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns, called baozi, explaining the contents of the product sold in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district. Baozi are a common snack in China, with an outer skin made from wheat or rice flour and a filling of sliced pork. Cooked by steaming in immense bamboo baskets, they are similar to but usually much bigger than the dumplings found on dim sum menus familiar to many Americans. The hidden camera follows the man, whose face is not shown, into a ramshackle building where steamers are filled with the fluffy white buns, traditionally stuffed with minced pork. The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground. "What's in the recipe?" the reporter asks. "Six to four," the man says. "You mean 60 percent cardboard? What is the other 40 percent?" asks the reporter. "Fatty meat," the man replies.... |
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This latest discovery is quite horrifying, since it indicates how low people are willing to stoop, just to make a fast buck! It is obvious that in China, there is a need to have health inspectors, to ensure that all restaurant and shop owners, are meeting hygienic standards.
It is becoming more apparent that there is a need for China to implement, a system whereby certain standards must be met, in terms of hygiene and safety, before goods are exported.
This year, the Chinese are not doing so well due to the fact that USA is starting to carefully examine all goods coming from China. It was discovered that toys manufactured in China were painted with lead paint. Of course we all know that this is dangerous for a child to play with because sooner or later, the child may playfully insert the toy in his mouth and the lead paint could make him seriously ill. Next, the dog food had to be recalled since dogs were dropping down like flies, after consuming the dog food (both tin food and dry chow); toothpaste from China was making people very ill; drugs that were exported from China and used in Mexico had to be recalled, since people were dying from some of the drugs; a ban was recently placed on fish since there was a very high content of bacteria and now cardboard in the food! Thank god they were not exporting these dumplings too!
All this negative media coverage on China is beginning to hurt their export industry. However, this is a good wake up call for all the Chinese, since their disregard for human life will be noted by the rest of the world! People are literally dying because of their avarice and that is unacceptable!
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Well, it seems like it was all an hoax and the reporter ended up in jail!
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| BEIJING - A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced a television reporter to one year in jail for fabricating a report that Beijing dumpling makers used cardboard as a filling. The official Xinhua news agency said the journalist, Zi Beijia, was convicted after an open court hearing of "infringing the reputation of commodities." He was also fined $132. Zi, a temporary reporter for Beijing television, was arrested after it emerged that he had cooked up a report that local makers of steamed dumplings were softening cardboard by soaking it in caustic soda and then flavoring it with pork juice. |
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This is very disturbing that a local would stoop so low, to damage the reputation of his own people! This hoax may create a stigma for all journalists in that country or perhaps even all over the world. Maybe he should try writing for the tabloids since he seems to know how to fabricate a story, very well!
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