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Yummy Harsh Browns in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 21, 2010


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Chinese Subway Delivery Bike

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 20, 2010



In China they have a ton of delivery bikes and electric vehicles.

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Chinese Fighting for Coupons

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 20, 2010


Here is a shot from the greatdivide .com, he took this at a KFC, the one where they wouldn’t accept the coupons  because some Chinese had faked them,  so KFC canceled the event. The people got pissed, here is his shot of them complaining about their 50 cent coupons.

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Fish Anyone- Polluted Water in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 16, 2010


A farmer scoops out dead fish from the bank of a reservoir in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning province, April 6, 2010. With a storage capacity of more than 40 million cubic meters, the Tuanjie reservoir in the suburban area of the city was found to be heavily polluted and claimed the lives of numerous fish after the ice melted. The water has turned almost black, and dead fish formed a two-kilometer-long and two-meter-wide belt off the south bank of the reservoir and gave off a foul odor that reached for miles. The provincial and city environmental protection departments are now investigating the situation. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Chinese Noodles

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 14, 2010


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How Bout Some Delicious Bull Pecker for Your Main Course in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 14, 2010


Is it from the boy crisis, or just a local delicacy? From a menu in China.

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China Puts Lime in Flour- Unsafe Chinese Products

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 10, 2010


WTF?

They complain about KFC coupons, they make fake eggs, peas and such, and now add lime to flour, just because it is cheap. You can hear the groans of humanity pulling at its seams with each news item in China.

BEIJING – Recent investigations have found that some bleaching agents widely used in flour production contain as much as 30 percent pulverized lime, a substance that has been linked to health problems.

Local insiders, who were worried the material would cause serious harm to public health, reported that pulverized lime is added to the bleaching agent produced by the Yuzhong Food Additive Company in Rugao in East China’s Jiangsu province, the report said.

Reporters then collected samples by visiting the company. Follow-up tests confirmed that some 30 percent of pulverized lime is used in the bleaching agent, the report said.

“Before the Spring Festival this year, the company purchased four trucks’ worth of pulverized lime, with each truck carrying 40 tons. An average of 1 jin (0.5 kg) of pulverized lime was added to every 4 jin of the bleaching agent,” a local insider was quoted as saying.

The normal price of bleaching agent is 11,000 yuan ($1,611) per ton, but the one from the Yuzhong company was only sold at only 9,000 yuan per ton.

Such news did not surprise some people within the industry. “Their low prices resulted from adding pulverized lime,” a salesperson from another bleaching agent company in Henan said upon learning about the other company’s lower price.

Most of the country’s bleaching agent companies are located in Henan. The Yuzhong company owner, surnamed Chen, said the bleaching agent was mainly sold to big-scale flour manufacturers in Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.

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FooK Yu- Eat Me…

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 10, 2010


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Yummy! Pure Fat Chocolate!

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 9, 2010


Click on it and see!

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Yunan Bridge Noodle joint

Posted by w_thames_the_d on April 6, 2010


Inside the Yunan Noodle house.

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