Hey, we're not just talking about that take-out chow mein from the hole-in-the-wall on the corner that just tastes like cardboard.Apparently, small, usually illegally-run operations across China have been cutting costs by using cheap ingredients, and in State TV's undercover investigation, sometimes substituting with things that aren't even food. In the Chaoyang district of Beijing, steamed buns called bao were filled with cardboard that had been softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning. The article over at CNN has more graphic details of how the cardboard is collected from the ground and "made" into the bao's filling.
Kind of makes you thankful for the regulations we have here in the US, huh?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-12-2007 @ 5:19PM
jsmylie said...
Criminey. Now I'm wondering if all those nikkuman I got from Japanese gas stations were legit. Some of 'em sure TASTED like cardboard...
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7-12-2007 @ 8:25PM
chris said...
The last time I ordered at my local Chinese carryout I got chicken fried rice. God as my witness, I've never seen chicken that looked like what was served. It looked like little strips of skin, being passed off as meat. Of course, it probably was some part of a chicken, I hope....
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7-12-2007 @ 11:02PM
Eggo-fu said...
How long until this, too, is uncovered as a hoax?
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7-13-2007 @ 12:31AM
MJ said...
This is criminal and just plain cheap ,nasty and insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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7-13-2007 @ 1:06AM
Jamar said...
Not a hoax. Read this on my Wii news channel yesterday. Ewww- definitely watching what I buy when I go back to China.
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7-13-2007 @ 1:37PM
Schuylar said...
The only way to discourage this from happening so, so often - boycott anything and everything from China whenever you are able to make the decision. If not, then we condone this.
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7-13-2007 @ 6:02PM
ShortWoman said...
"Homer, wake up! PowerSauce Bars are made from apple cores and old Chinese newspapers!"
Reality imitates art?
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7-19-2007 @ 4:18PM
Lala said...
The story was a hoax. There's a new update on this here: Reporter held for cardboard buns hoax
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=57827&in_page_id=34
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