Egg fried rice, Mao and Xi

The „View from China“ column is written by authors from the People’s Republic. Today’s article is about fried rice with egg, Mao and a very peculiar festival.

A star Chinese chef on the internet announced on Nov. 27 that he would never cook egg fried rice again. Wang Gang (王刚), who has a total of about 20 million followers on social media platforms, also bowed deeply in his apologetic video for showing the audience how to make this everyday Chinese dish around a sensitive date. Both the fried rice video and the sorry-video were deleted afterwards. Other Youtubers have kept the latter.

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