{"id":668,"date":"2007-07-14T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2007-07-14T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T12:54:02","slug":"aiyah_a_public_service_announc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/aiyah_a_public_service_announc\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiyah, a public service announcement&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: <em>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/zonaeuropa.com\/20070720_1.htm\">here<\/a>.  Guess the producer no longer has a job.  Or his freedom. <\/em><br \/>\nStreet food is one of the staples of traveling.  In a nutshell, street food is a reflection of the tastes and priorities of the society you&#8217;re visiting.  What does this say about mainland China?<br \/>\n<em>Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,289081,00.html\">Link<\/a>.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mEZu7u4kHqY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Original CCTV report<\/em><br \/>\nNow keep in mind that this isn&#8217;t a a &#8220;western propaganda outlet&#8221; muckraking to make the motherland look bad, this report was from CCTV, the state propaganda arm! Kudos to whoever approved this story (assuming he still has a job there) and had the guts to see it through&#8230;<br \/>\nReally makes you think about where and what you eat and whether or not &#8220;cheap food&#8221; is such a good deal.  I think it depends on where you are. I&#8217;ve usually no qualms about eating from a hawker stand in Singapore or in piss alley in Shinjuku or even one of the remaining Dai Pai Dongs in Hong Kong.  Those countries make an effort to regulate food stalls and there are laws and fines that are enforced for violations.  Even here in San Francisco there are regulations as such.<br \/>\nBut obviously not mainland China.  They&#8217;ve got a LOT of work ahead of them&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a Japanese story on the CCTV report&#8230;<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cOFNGsMUTnM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Click here. Guess the producer no longer has a job. Or his freedom. Street food is one of the staples of traveling. In a nutshell, street food is a reflection of the tastes and priorities of the society you&#8217;re visiting. What does this say about mainland China? Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/aiyah_a_public_service_announc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aiyah, a public service announcement&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-aM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}