The shiny shitter is currently on display at the 11th World Toilet Summit and Expo that began yesterday in the Hainan provincial capital of Haikou. more ›

You definitely will want to think twice before covering up with a blanket the next time you board a plane. more ›

Is anything safe to eat anymore? Just the other day, we told you about the glow-in-the-dark pork being sold in Pudong. Now, apparently, it's the mantou, or the processed steamed buns we need to be watching out for. more ›

For the first time in seven years the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in Hong Kong. A 59-year old woman had begun to show flu symptoms after her family trip to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. She was admitted to a hospital on the 14th of November having only returned to Hong Kong on the 1st. more ›

This video, taken by a deliveryman with his cellphone at KFC's Yuen Long Plaza (元朗广场) outlet in Hong Kong, has been sending shockwaves throughout the territory of late. He recently blew the whistle by telling Hong Kong gossip rag Next Magazine 《壹週刊》 that staff at this outlet would frequently stop kitchen operations, throw away all leftover food, and start cleaning up before the restaurant closes so they can go home on time. During this time, if a customer walks in, employees will pick up the food from the trash and serve it to customers -- and this is apparently all done with the consent of the restaurant manager so they can "avoid reheating the frying machine". more ›

From RFA:

近日有聽眾向本台提供片段，指廣州街邊出現不少不法商人將用過的舊茶葉晒乾，加上香精後，然後加上偽冒的一九五八年普洱包裝，在市場上銷售。由次片段所見，在廣州街邊有人在衛生條件惡劣的露天地方，將晒乾的茶葉包好，然後印上一九五八產普洱字樣出售。工人 在地上包裝和處理茶葉，整個包裝地點都未有任何衛生及消毒設施。 more ›

Recently we've had the pleasure of dining in two local restaurants in Qingpu Town, technically part of Shanghai but very close to Jiangsu Province, and both times our plates, bowls, cups and spoon came vacuum packed in plastic, supposedly "sanitized" for our pleasure. We had never seen this before, despite having dined at our fair share of greasy spoons throughout the country. But the folks we ate with last night said plastic wrapped tableware is actually quite common, not only in Qingpu, but in Chongqing and other cities throughout China. Is this true? Have we totally missed the trend toward the restaurant equivalent of the plastic covered couch? It just looks so classy. If it is a trend, can it survive the upcoming plastics ban? more ›

If you love pizza, pasta, risotto and the rest, then no doubt you've come across some shocking examples of pseudo-Italian cuisine in Shanghai. However, the experience of one Shanghaiist reader at Babela's Kitchen, the newest establishment in the Food Park on the corner of Beijing Lu and Jiangning Lu, was truly scary. "I found a shard of glass as big as my little finger in my risotto, after I'd already put it in my mouth.... more ›