• Semperverus
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      1 year ago

      Hai yaaaa, cousin Steven, what you thinkinngggg?? Now your social credit score in toilet, like your cooking 😏

  • @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    Imagine not being able to cook a dish, because someone gets upset about someone cooking it in the past, and stuffing up in wartime. That’s just nuts. Especially if they believe the story is false. Talk about social paranoia.

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      The controversy isn’t simply about egg fried rice. Lots of people cook and eat egg fried rice and make videos about it. The issue is the accidental timing of the video release coincided with the anniversary of Mao’s son’s birthday and many others have used egg fried rice as a way to dissent against the government, specifically around Mao Anying’s birthday or death anniversary.

      I think it would be somewhat akin to bringing sushi to a Bush Sr. press conference to highlight when he puked on a Japanese official, though that would probably go over fairly well in the States.

      But basically, egg fried rice protests are a Chinese phenomenon, Chef Wang Gang accidentally played into that, and it probably got more steam than it should because this happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

      For further watching (with a lil cooking lesson!) here’s a video Wang Gang has listed on his channel on Egg Fried Rice, released in May, so, no controversy

  • Isn’t this an old story? I don’t think this happened recently in the least. Anyway, Chef Wang Gang is phenomenal, one of my favorite YouTube cooking channels, highly recommended for Sichuan recipes of varying complexity, from simple to challenging.

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          31 year ago

          Yup you’re right. Meanwhile Newsweek (as reliable as they are…) reported on it but their dates are even less coherent.

          • I’d guess slow news week, but, uh, I don’t think that’s true.

            I dunno! But if it means more people watch Wang Gang’s videos, cool! He’s a great chef and he teaches a lot of interesting and varied techniques in his videos.

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            I’m fairly certain that’s mistaken, I remember hearing about this in 2020.

            I’m not even sure how this could surface again, despite it being around the anniversary, since I thought he took down the video that year?