Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Funny Tales in China

As published in the newspaper about the tale of the jilted husband who exacted revenge after his wife ran off: He charged into a makeover saloon that gave her wife a total makeover change and broke the beautician’s finger.
The diner who speared his tongue with a hook while eating fish head and a woman who walks only backward, the farmer with his hard earned saving eaten by the rats.
Another reported about a man in Jilin province found USD400.00 in the stomach of a rotten fish that his dog dug out from the rubbish dump. The man thought that the money has been placed there as a surprise gift and wanted to return it. He placed an advertisement “Cash Prize for anyone who can describe a Fish”. There was a migrant who was rescued by the police when he jumped into the river to clean himself. The police thought that he wanted to commit suicide. There is this company in Shandong province that holds an “unpopularity” contest to identify the three least well-liked employees who will be fired.

The most gruesome story that happened seven years ago was about a shop in a rural province that sold the famous meat dumpling (named in Chinese literally translated “even the dogs cannot resist eating”). The owner, brothers and sister team served special meat dumpling to snaking queues at every hours since morning until the dumpling ran out. The meat tasted very special as it was flavored with lots and lots of variety of Chinese spices. The meat was chewy and believed it was so good. Business was so brisk that it became so popular with the locals. The price of the meat dumpling was dirt cheap that some locals suspected the meats were from dead pigs. Rumors spread around and a reporter decided to ran a special report on the famous meat dumpling. Later the investigation revealed a horrendous dark tales. The meats were from dead bodies after autopsy and dumped off by the mortuary staff – whom happened to be owner’s brother.
Those dead bodies were all from accident and emergency cases which were not claimed by immediate family, friends or relatives. The news shocked the local community and both brothers and sister was immediately put on house arrest until further investigation.
I do not know about the locals but when we were in Shanghai in 2004, we were quite hesitant to eat the meat dumpling shop at the local eateries. The meat inside the dumpling was questionable, where the meat does came from, pigs or human meat. Anyway my mum wanted to eat the dumpling as she has this habit of having supper before sleep.
I bought two meat dumpling from a big store located in one of the “must visit” tourist area, the locals were queuing for them. I believe it should be safe for consumption.