Posted on 07/12/2007 1:58:26 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Eatery closed for selling cardboard-stuffed buns
Created: 2007-7-12 12:00:26
Author:Alice Gu
BEIJING authorities yesterday closed a dim-sum restaurant that sold steamed cardboard-stuffed buns, Beijing Times reported today.
The cardboard was a substitute for pork. The restaurant owner fled and is wanted for questioning.
The raid came after the restaurant in Beijing's Chaoyang District was reviewed by a local TV station a few days earlier.
The stuffing of the bun was made of cardboard and pork fat, said the TV program.
The recipe went like this: Cardboard was soaked in water and an industrial-use caustic soda, a poisonous chemical, was added. The cardboard lost its normal color and became fragile under the soda's strong causticity, making it look more like pork. Finally, pork-smell essence and pork fat were stirred into the concoction to make the stuffing more "vivid."
"It may save me almost 1,000 yuan (US$132.14) a day," said the shop owner, according to the program.
It was unclear how long the restaurant was serving the cardboard-filled dumplings.
The buns were prepared at a kitchen in nearby Taiyanggong Village to avoid people finding out. Officials with the Zuojiazhuang Industrial and Commercial Administration closed down the prep kitchen yesterday.
The prep-kitchen's landlord is being questioned, said the Beijing Times report.
Chaoyang District's Industrial and Commercial Administration said it will inspect the district's 58 dim-sum restaurants soon.
Pork prices in 36 major cities nationwide continued to rise last month due to a supply shortage.
Pig leg was sold at 19.56 yuan per kilogram on average in June, jumping 12.3 percent from May, and continuing April's upward trend, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.
top-left: cardboard-stuffed dumplings -- look harmless
top-right: soak carboard in sodium hydroxide(lye,) its color turning dark-brown
bottom-left: shred the soaked cardboard using a cutter(or grinder?)
bottom-right: a shocked CCTV female anchor dropping her jaw
Ping!
Heh.
They probably could have gotten away with it here in the US if they’d only labeled it a “pork like” filling.
Might even have found a solid niche market. It’s biodegradable, low cal, take out the pork fat and it’s vegetarian(ish) and probably fairly high fiber.
Just more proof of why the Chinese are the most dangerous people on the planet and how they have no interest in law, sanitary conditions or the environment.
True meaning of a “box” lunch.
"OOOOOOoooooooooh. Cardboard."
She's beautiful... Chinese government should crack down these fake food manufacturers so that this beautiful lady and her kind will not be wasted... ;-)
Just when you think you’ve been grossed out by Chinese food ingredients, they come up with something worse :(
They do- it's called tofu, or soy substrate. It would taste like cardboard if it wasn't for the artificial flavoring and colors to make it taste and look like what ever you want it to.
God only knows what that stuff does to you, although we do know of some nasty side effects, such as raising estrogen levels in women causing fertility problems, (and any desire to be with men) and breast development in men, as well as decreased testosterone levels, higher pitched voices, (and any desire to be with women)
box lunch... groan... bada bing!
Also, was it "Free Range" cardboard? I know PETA protests those restaurants that mistreat cardboard.
Difficult to believe that the commonly used pork is as tender and mushy as this soaked cardboard, Also difficult to believe that the flavor wouldn’t be a dead giveaway. It would taste like alkali.
PETA is happy, but the treehuggers are going to have a cow!
Naw, they do use real pork at Hormel's, just not the parts anyone would normally eat. (along with all the other road kill- deer, skunk, porcupine, squirrel- and waste animal parts and rotted expired meats they can grind up)
It can become anything you want it to be after they make that colorless white paste base product, heated to high temperatures to make sure any toxic and biological organisms are neutralized.
Add some red dye, mix in chunks of white paste that has had a slightly different red dye color combo, and it can be processed ham, turkey slices, canned ham, or the base product, spam. Yum!
/s
Preview of the Olympics menu?
But how did the customers like it? That’s what counts, right?
I think that rather than dump toxic waste, Chinese try to make a buck off it. Feeding it to humans seems to be a popular method. Another seems to be incorporating it into other materials such as recycled plastics, glass, paints, anything where it can be used as a filler. They even recycle waste animal bones into valuable -billion year old- fossil bones to sell evolutionists looking for that missing link, a big government grant and their name in a journal.
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