Bogus ‘baozi’ and cancerous White Rabbit?!

I was digging around Shanghaiist today and found out that the fake bao zi story (about caustic soda-soaked, cardboard-filled buns) was made up! (Read my original post here.)
Kind of creepy how we all thought it could be true…
In other news, my favorite Chinese candy, White Rabbit, was banned in the Philippines after the Philippine Bureau [...]

Bad Bao

(Thank you to my cousin Erich for sending me this link!)

One of the best memories I have of Shanghai is picking up a hot, greasy, juicy meat-filled bun (”bao zi“) from the local street market on my way home from work. Had I known about this, though, I might have resisted the temptation to sink [...]

China: Off with your head of food and drug agency!

This is what happens if you accept bribes to approve shady drugs in China:
“China executes ex-head of food and drug agency”
Zheng sentenced to death in May for taking bribes to OK substandard drugs”
July 10, 2007
via MSNBC

BEIJING - China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for approving fake medicine [...]