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Eatery closed for selling cardboard-stuffed
buns
By 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.
(source: Shanghai Daily)
