This is more sensational than journalism. If anyone travel around any country looking for poisons, they will find them. Do things like this happen in US, Paris, Tokyo? You bet.
To make it journalistic, the reporter should add a risk assessment. What's the likelihood of someone get poisoned as a patron to a normal restaurant?
Put this in perspective. Is it more dangerous eating in China than breathing? How about comparing to flying or driving?
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Wow! I spend 1/3 of my life there. What am I supposed to do?
Posted by: Derek | December 21, 2007 1:17 AM
Hmmm, am I fixin' to die? All that delicious huo guo and yangrou chuanr, that's gonna kill me right?
Derek: Perhaps you could bring some U.S. military MREs with you. I take them on camping trips. You might get some stares from the locals though.
Posted by: Glen Wilkins | December 21, 2007 8:56 AM
This is more sensational than journalism. If anyone travel around any country looking for poisons, they will find them. Do things like this happen in US, Paris, Tokyo? You bet.
To make it journalistic, the reporter should add a risk assessment. What's the likelihood of someone get poisoned as a patron to a normal restaurant?
Put this in perspective. Is it more dangerous eating in China than breathing? How about comparing to flying or driving?
Posted by: Sin-Yaw Wang | December 21, 2007 9:36 AM
Why waste your money on dirty upscale chinese dining when you can enjoy perfectly good hot pot, ma la tang and ji dan bing for a few kwai?
damn its hard to type when drunk.
Posted by: nanheyangrouchuan | December 22, 2007 11:49 PM