Author Topic: Sidewalk China Stand Found Selling Steamed Buns Made Primarily From Cardboard (Read 4647 times)

Foxy Brown · « **on:** July 13, 2007, 02:09:43 PM »

A common Chinese lunch or breakfast snack known a baozi, or Chinese steamed buns, was being made and sold illegally with cardboard boxes being substituted as the main ingredient at one vendor, according to authorities in China.

Asmodai · « **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2007, 02:14:50 PM »

I saw this on the news. They used industrial chemicals to soften the cardboard.

The reputation of Chinese product safety is certainly taking a hit lately. It's curious how Japan is much more obsessed about product safety and their food supply, while China is largely oblivious to it.

chokkan 2 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2007, 03:04:03 PM »

nice ~ good job .........

nop · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2007, 03:46:52 PM »

Caught on video camera. Consider China, the cook and owner might get firing squad or 20 years in prison.

JFC · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2007, 05:20:45 PM »

The fact that people can actually be fooled and don't realize that they're actually eating cardboard is disturbing in itself.

Shin Asuka · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2007, 07:21:27 PM »

If they found one, I wonder how many other stands are doing this practice <_<

shindoushiz · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2007, 04:32:48 AM »

I read about this in the newspaper. I ate a bunch of street food but never saw dumplings in the area I was in.

thatguy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2007, 04:56:49 AM »

Just another indication that we're all doomed.

Because the moment we become dependant on chinese labor (and don't say it isn't going to happen!), they'll be able to stuff cardboard into all of our food!

Though in reality this does happen everywhere. I found it more interesting that Japan had a pretty big segment on their news networks to broadcast the actual undercover report; it seems that Japan has no problems these days making fun of China

Asmodai · « **Reply #8 on:** July 14, 2007, 05:29:22 AM »

Quote from: thatguy on July 14, 2007, 04:56:49 AM

Just another indication that we're all doomed.

Because the moment we become dependant on chinese labor (and don't say it isn't going to happen!), they'll be able to stuff cardboard into all of our food!

Though in reality this does happen everywhere. I found it more interesting that Japan had a pretty big segment on their news networks to broadcast the actual undercover report; it seems that Japan has no problems these days making fun of China

I guess Frienger didn't work.

schol3s · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2007, 12:55:59 PM »

i heard this news from my mother too....
damn... those cheap and evil china people.... they are such bastard...
well, not all china people... but this guy is really a disgusting bastard...
a bastard among bastard....

~Dan~ · « **Reply #10 on:** July 14, 2007, 02:54:52 PM »

I sometimes get something called "Little steamed bun" from the Chinese supermarket. They're small and crunchy and very dry. They're nice, I like them. It wouldn't surprise me if they had cardboard in, haha.

Marks Spencer · « **Reply #11 on:** July 19, 2007, 07:38:48 AM »

This explains the high fiber content in my diet.....

thatguy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2007, 09:01:56 AM »

Turns out the news was fabricated, there was no cardboard in the buns.

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

chokkan 2 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2007, 09:40:28 AM »

but I think it's a cover up ........

I think it true

nop · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2007, 11:50:13 AM »

Cover up. The cook disappeared already. TV reports that nobody can find that cook / owner.

thatguy · « **Reply #15 on:** July 19, 2007, 01:57:03 PM »

Just because he disappeared doesn't make him guilty. It's possible that with all of the bad rep he got from the story, he was probably harassed to the point he had to leave for his own safety.

From JapanProbe:

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...this ultra-sensational news story was created by a Chinese CCTV reporter who was aiming to create something shocking to get huge ratings.

It's not the first time a news station has pulled a stunt to improve ratings, and it certainly isn't the first time someone has ever been wrongly accused.

makeme · « **Reply #16 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:35:40 PM »

Nice. Full of caustic soda goodness. What every growing young kids need.

Shin Asuka · « **Reply #17 on:** July 19, 2007, 08:04:34 PM »

Even if its fake doesn't mean they have food problems.

If it was a stunt to attact ratings they did it at the wrong time

Exemplice · « **Reply #18 on:** July 21, 2007, 06:30:15 PM »

To be honest...I'm more inclined to go with this story was FAKED intentionally to get readership/viewing the news agency up AND/OR for the reporter to make some quick cash. I'm also wondering how exactly this would be cost effective if you need to use chemicals to dissolve the bun. I'd bet that the chemicals themselves would probably cost more than making the bun itself. This leads to the other point, cardboard is quite thick. I'm pretty sure you can tell whether there's something wrong with the bun in this case.

As for China's food...though I'm Chinese, it leaves me wondering what exactly is going into our food, but that can be said to all other places too not just China.

chokkan 2 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2007, 07:33:31 PM »

...... chemical + cardboard is cheaper than the meat in the bun ..... chemicals are cheaper than you think (in China) ........

besides they even got fake eggs .....

I know because I can read Chinese ......