Blog Tag - Food scandals

R2 Is Your Rice Cooker Poisoning You?
Food safety concerns in China are nothing new. However a recent experiment has demonstrated that a mainstay of Asian kitchens – the rice cooker – may...
News You Might Have Missed: Superheroes, Siri and Space
Now is the time to escape the heat by heading to the cinema for an action-packed film, but lately people have been taking those stunts off the...
Capital Bites: Popsicle Scandal, Hakka at Houhai Closed and Yannick Alleno Gala Dinner
Sure, it's getting hot, but you might want to think twice about cooling down with a popsicle. Or at least choose wisely: the Global Times reported...
News You Might Have Missed: Possibilities Over Visas, Food and Commutes
While you enjoy the long weekend, here are some of the latest things that may be happening in Beijing – from visa issues to toxins in food to the...
2011: A Year in Food (Scandals)
Ketchup made from kitten paws, wig-wearing hairy crabs, sewer chuan’r … are these just some of the food scandals we can look forward to in 2012, or...
Market Horror: Glow in the Dark Pork Chops
In Tongzhou, no one can hear you scream. Well, they probably can (despite a lifetime’s firecracker abuse), but will they come to your aid when they...
Another Food Scandal to Report, Honey
In our brave new world where pizza is a vegetable and bread sandwiched between bread counts as a nutritious meal, now this. Three-quarters of all...
Rise of the Beijing Breakfast Wagon
What did you eat on the way to work this morning? Was it an egg, mystery meat and lettuce sandwich from one of these taxi-coloured wagons? Don't lie...
Toxic Lipton Tea Recalled from Supermarkets
Yes! You read that correctly. Lipton, the tea company established by a Scottish grocer over 100 years ago (long since part of consumer goods giant...
Capital Bites: Adios Casa Latina, Konichiwa Obentos and More Food Scandals
There are six million and three adages about being the bearer of bad news*, but bear it I must. This week’s dining news has a little more “gosh...