Chinese food...

[Laozi]

I've never really liked Chinese food. I don't mean any disrespect to the cuisine. I just think it's a bit bland.

 

 

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But Wals, you were saying just the other day that you'd love to have the Cream of Sum Yung Gi.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2007 by Laozi

[Atreides]

You don't think this that, given the way we keep having these stories of a sudden that this could be part of certain elements in the media/government taking it upon themselves to hurt Chinese exports as punishment for their supporting Iran and Sudan?

 

EDIT: 231%? I thought that said 23.1%!

Of course it has. The real issue is standards, regulation and enforcement in China aren't up to scratch yet though so these things are likelier to happen. I bet it was the same way in the West too before standards got raised. Maybe even ethics.

 

What the media spotlight does is raise awareness and even gets the govt to raise its game, which is exactly what the Chinese govt is doing. They're revising laws and cracking down. I think they executed a former minister because he accepted bribes and let substandard drugs be sold in China.

[Arkan]

Of course it has. The real issue is standards, regulation and enforcement in China aren't up to scratch yet though so these things are likelier to happen. I bet it was the same way in the West too before standards got raised. Maybe even ethics.

 

What the media spotlight does is raise awareness and even gets the govt to raise its game, which is exactly what the Chinese govt is doing. They're revising laws and cracking down. I think they executed a former minister because he accepted bribes and let substandard drugs be sold in China.

 

It'll happen if they want to continue doing business with the west (foodwise)

 

America went through it, too, back in the early 1900s...just read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.

[Azarkon]

I've never really liked Chinese food. I don't mean any disrespect to the cuisine. I just think it's a bit bland.

 

There is actually quite a bit of variety to Chinese food... It doesn't get translated very well, however. I once had a Chinese colleague remark, upon coming to America, that he pities the Americans for their food options, though I'm sure the UK has better standards

[tarna]

Yum!

Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in.

For those of that don't know, 'caustic soda' is sodium hydroxide, also known as lye. This is the same stuff used to clear your drain problems and clean your ovens. Don't believe me...go to the store and check out the warnings on oven cleaners and Draino. I'll accept your apologies later. :wink:

Oh and BTW, I use it to clean really F'd up air conditioners that some idiot put too close to the fryer exhaust at a restaraunt. Works good on baked on grease. Gotta be good on the poop-chute! Get that colesteral down.

They're revising laws and cracking down. I think they executed a former minister because he accepted bribes and let substandard drugs be sold in China.

Back in the mid-80s, China went into a refrigerator plant and summarily executed about a dozen managers for knowingly sending out defective refrigerators. Took them out into a field behind the plant and shot them in the head. The factory made immediate improvements in their products.

 

The American market could learn from this example of goverment regulation. :wink:

[metadigital]

The story reminds me of an earlier (also Chinese) baker who was using human cadavers to flavour his buns ...

[Walsingham]

I don't think shooting a handful of officials is actually cleaning house. I mean, take Enron as an applied example. Whacking the guys responsible might prove a point, but without systematic review of the legislation concerned, what does it matter?

 

I note that China has refused to allow imports from four US firms in what must be retaliation for the bad coverage.

[Laozi]

The story reminds me of an earlier (also Chinese) baker who was using human cadavers to flavour his buns ...

 

 

Like Sweeney Todd

[metadigital]

... Except this Chinese baker was caught less than a decade ago.

[Walsingham]

Using people is a damned silly way to get cheap meat. Pigs grow so fast it's madness not to use them.

[metadigital]

It was more a parasitical crime of opportunity, rather than a premeditated farming proposition.

[jaguars4ever]

... Except this Chinese baker was caught less than a decade ago.

 

Chinese buns are people!

[julianw]

^How else do you expect us Chinese to feed ourselves? We got like 2 billion people and usually greet each other with 'have you eaten yet?'.

[Walsingham]

^How else do you expect us Chinese to feed ourselves? We got like 2 billion people and usually greet each other with 'have you eaten yet?'.

 

That's how I greet people. At least, from now on, that's how I'll greet people.

[Guest The Architect]

^How else do you expect us Chinese to feed ourselves? We got like 2 billion people and usually greet each other with 'have you eaten yet?'.

 

That's how I greet people. At least, from now on, that's how I'll greet people.

 

I'm not sure if that'll be a good way to greet overweight people, though.

Edited July 17, 2007 by The Architect

[metadigital]

... And here I thought the correct greeting (in Mandarin) was Ni Hao.

[Gorth]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/...reut/index.html

 

The reporter must have stepped on some toes. He has now been arrested for "fabricating the story".

 

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

 

Maybe he should have created some satirical cartoons instead?

[julianw]

Wow. Political cover-up over cardboard buns? WTF.

 

Btw, I may be wrong but I think the Chinese greeting about daily meals might be similar to how British people greet each other by talking about the weather. It's a culture thing perhaps?

[jaguars4ever]

Does this mean we now have baozi for laozi?

[julianw]

Donno. We might have some Baozi made from Laozi tho. On a side note, I heard that many human body parts (male testes in particular) taste great. I remember reading about them on a magazine which detailed the story behind a cannibalistic serial killing ring. Though it might have been a novel. Can't remember.

[Walsingham]

Well if even the BBC are fbricating stories, why can't everyone else?