Some Beijing steamed buns include cardboard

[TB4000]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_as/china_cardboard_buns

OK....interesting.

[Craig]

Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on the screen. The reporter takes a bite.

"This baozi filling is kind of tough. Not much taste," he says. "Can other people taste the difference?"

"Most people can't. It fools the average person," the maker says. "I don't eat them myself."

The police eventually showed up and shut down the operation.Maybe they should feed this crap to the white Americans and idiot Asians in the US.

Actually, I think I know Chinese people in the USA (who grew up in Asia) that must have eaten this type of crap because they always go to the Asian restaurants that taste nasty.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Those Beijing baozi thingies taste like cardboard anyway.

[yoMAMA]

this is nothing...

i've heard they put rat meat into the baozi...

yum.

[Banana]

This reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons when Homer was endorsing those apple fruit power bars which were stuffed with old Chinese newspapers.

"Oh my god! Deng Xiaoping died?!"

[Adaon]

this is nothing...

i've heard they put rat meat into the baozi...

yum.

:rolleyes: This is like the rumor that some pho places use rat meat/bones in their broth.

[Faithless]

Commentary on questionable food products coming out of China. Does it seem like the tainted food has lead to culinary xenophobia?

A taste of racism in the Chinese food scare (http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6398687)

By Jeff Yang | Special to The Washington Post | Article Launched: 07/18/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT
...
Nevertheless, China has been portrayed as a nation blind to hygiene and blissfully unconcerned about recent reports of food contamination. That's troubling, because it reinforces the notion that befouled food is the consequence of a foul culture. Chef and gustatory adventurer Anthony Bourdain may have said it best in a 2006 Salon interview in which he noted that there's "something kind of racist" about culinary xenophobia: "Fear of dirt is often indistinguishable from the fear of unnamed dirty people."
...
But when the stakes are raised, as they have been by recent scandals, such jokes turn deadly serious. The fringes of the pundit set have already been intimating that these tainted-food incidents are deliberate. In May, the conservative news organ WorldNetDaily.com asked, "Is China Trying to Poison Americans and Their Pets?" The nativist drumbeat has since only pounded louder, suggesting that China has been waging a secret biowarfare campaign to destroy the United States from deep, deep within - planting WMDs in the Wal-Mart cart, if you will.
Yellow-peril imagery has been oozing from the extreme margins into the mainstream. Recently, the Utah-based health food company Food for Health International even became the first to take this "China equals menace" meme to market, instituting a new label and ad campaign promoting its products as "China-Free." There's talk about calling the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing the B.Y.O. Olympics. The leading customer-advocacy blog Consumerist.com came up with a catchy nickname for the fiendish assault on American shoppers: "The Chinese Poison Train is still out there, lurking on a container ship headed our way," editor Carey Greenberg-Berger warns in one May post. "Nobody knows when it will strike again." You can imagine the silent-movie tableau: the fiendish Chinese Poison Train bearing down on the hapless American consumer, tied to the tracks by a nefarious evildoer with a Fu Manchu mustache.
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[tripostrophe]

I hear that they also eat dogs in Asian; is this true?

[Banana]

In all seriousness, I heard that this story is actually false and was fabricated by a Chinese news agency to broadcast "news" that their other news rivals couldn't find.

[bluemonq]

I hear that they also eat dogs in Asian; is this true?
humor aside, yes, dog meat for the purposes of consumption is sold.

[yoMAMA]

I hear that they also eat dogs in Asian; is this true?

yes it is.

:wink:

[yoMAMA]

In all seriousness, I heard that this story is actually false and was fabricated by a Chinese news agency to broadcast "news" that their other news rivals couldn't find.

have a link?

i called my aunt in beijing, and she that the cardboard baozi story is all over the news (and she never eat at non-established joints).

[tripostrophe]

humor aside, yes, dog meat for the purposes of consumption is sold.

Hm didn't know any countries still condoned the sale of it, but that's cool. Maybe...I'll...have to try some. Maybe. I'd probably feel bad about it though.

[eos]

^know what else they eat over there? cats, snakes, and bugs.

[Craig]

^know what else they eat over there? cats, snakes, and bugs.They eat snakes in Texas too.

[Adaon]

^know what else they eat over there? cats, snakes, and bugs.

I thought they did rats still in some places. Monkeys, in certain parts of the world..... -shrug-

[Craig]

have a link?

i called my aunt in beijing, and she that the cardboard baozi story is all over the news (and she never eat at non-established joints).<http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/18/china.health.fake.reut/index.html>China reporter held over cardboard-in-buns story

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Beijing police have detained a television reporter for allegedly fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny.

A report directed by Beijing TV and played on state-run national broadcaster China Central Television last Thursday said an unlicensed snack vendor in eastern Beijing was selling steamed dumplings stuffed with cardboard soaked in caustic soda and seasoned with pork flavoring.

Beijing authorities said investigations had found that an employee surnamed Zi had fabricated the report to garner "higher audience ratings", the China Daily said on Thursday.

"Zi had provided all the cardboard and asked the vendor to soak it. It's all cheating," the paper quoted a government notice as saying.

A city-wide inspection of steamed bun vendors in the wake of the report had found no such cases, the paper said.

Beijing TV had apologized for failing to check the report's authenticity and said it would make efforts to improve staff ethics, the paper added.

China is reeling from a series of tainted food and drug scandals that have sparked criticism at home and abroad.

The deaths of patients in Panama from mislabeled drug ingredients from China, deadly toxins in pet food exported to the United States and food laced with hazardous antibiotics and chemicals have raised fears about the safety of China's surging exports.

On Wednesday, Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to improve food safety in a meeting with a visiting Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono, Kyodo news agency reported.

[tripostrophe]

Eh whatever meat is meat and norms is norms.

[deez nuts]

I hear that they also eat dogs in Asian; is this true?

you're korean right? poshingtang. you gotta be kidding me. i mean come on what the hell?

I thought they did rats still in some places. Monkeys, in certain parts of the world..... -shrug-

guangzhou is pretty famous for rat dishes.

[Craig]

<http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20070720_1.htm>

[tripostrophe]

you're korean right? poshingtang. you gotta be kidding me. i mean come on what the hell?

sorry, i guess i forgot to leave that [/sarcasm] tag for you there.

[applehead]

why is it that i do believe the cardboard story
but not the story that the reporter lied?
hehe

did you hear about that woman who had chemical
burns from flip flops made in china.
now i'm not so annoyed anymore that my mom
was so anal about not buying food products
from china.

[snow ninja]

rat meat?

i'm chinese and i don't think i want to eat anything frozen prepared in china anymore like dim sums. except for dried goods maybe.

but hey, there was botulism in some american made chili

ATLANTA — A Georgia plant that makes the canned chili sauce suspected in a botulism outbreak had a production problem about two months ago, though a check of the cans had found no problems, a company official said Thursday.

The Augusta plant made the sauce that is suspected of seriously sickening an Indiana couple and two children in Texas.

[yoMAMA]

why is it that i do believe the cardboard story
but not the story that the reporter lied?
hehe



same here.

[Craig]

same here.Perhaps it's because you've eaten "Chinese" food in America that tasted worse than cardboard.