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Zhao Yiming Snacks Pledges Tenfold Compensation Over Short-Weight Scandal

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Mingming Henmang, the group behind China's biggest bulk-snack chains, has apologized for stores short-weighing customers and pledged tenfold compensation, daily scale audits and a nationwide weighing-monitoring system — a formal retreat after regulators began inspecting a boom industry built on the price of a gram.

A 500-Yuan Fake Licence Put a Garage BBQ Joint on China's Delivery Apps

An unlicensed barbecue stall operating out of a Liuzhou garage — its food permit bought for 500 yuan from a paperwork agent — headlined CCTV's latest exposé of 'ghost takeout', after a Guangxi audit flagged more than 5,000 suspicious merchant records; in April, regulators fined seven delivery platforms a combined 3.597 billion yuan over the same problem.

Crabs From the Desert: Xinjiang's 'Seafood' Harvest Goes to Market

In Aral City on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, farmers are raising mud crabs, grouper and shrimp in salt-alkali ponds engineered to mimic seawater — the headline act of China's autumn harvest season, and a serious bet on turning wasteland into food security.

Sushiro China on the Defensive After Beijing Staff Decline to Stop Child's Tableside Urination

Sushiro China on the Defensive After Beijing Staff Decline to Stop Child's Tableside Urination

A diner's video of a parent catching a child's urine in a cup at a Beijing Sushiro went viral after staff said they had no way to intervene — the third such incident at the chain's China stores in three weeks. Chinese commentary is asking why the reforms Sushiro adopted in Japan have not crossed the sea.

The Invisible First Cuisine: Why China's Foundational Cooking Has No Restaurants

The Invisible First Cuisine: Why China's Foundational Cooking Has No Restaurants

A question near the top of Zhihu — why China's 'first of the Eight Great Cuisines' has almost no restaurants — has diners debating how Shandong's Lu cuisine won so completely that it disappeared into the default of Chinese cooking.

Why China's Duck-Neck King Can No Longer Sell Duck Necks

Why China's Duck-Neck King Can No Longer Sell Duck Necks

Juewei, China's biggest braised-snack chain, has reported its third straight first-half revenue decline — the clearest sign yet that a frugality habit is reshaping what Chinese consumers buy, from 760-yuan herbal pills down to 9-yuan duck heads.

China's 'Whole Wheat' Bread Is Often White Bread Dyed With Caramel Coloring, CCTV Finds

30 Aug 2026

In This Shanghai Bakery, You Choose Your Bread From a Photo

29 Aug 2026

A gift box of mooncakes shaped like China's provinces, each with a matching regional filling — Sichuan pepper beef for Sichuan, cranberry for the northeast — has captured what 'involution' looks like in the country's most saturated gift market, as buyers complain the holiday's most famous pastry has become all packaging and no appetite.

A Mooncake Map of China: Regional Pride Is the Flavor of Mid-Autumn's Arms Race

29 Aug 2026

State Council Steps In After Pest-Control Firm Sprayed Dichlorvos in Chain Restaurants

27 Aug 2026

A viral Weibo post reduced Hong Kong's food-safety record to a single law: the Food Safety Ordinance, which turns violations into crimes with fines and jail time. The claim is simplified, but the legal teeth behind Hong Kong's clean produce are real—and the contrast with mainland enforcement is why mainlanders share it.

How Hong Kong Kept Its Vegetables Honest: A Viral Food-Safety Ordinance Explained

26 Aug 2026

Once shorthand for luxury, durian has crashed to under 20 yuan a kilogram as the China-Laos railway's cold chain cuts losses and shrinks delivery to three days, delivering 'durian freedom' to Chinese shoppers.

Durian Prices Collapse as a Rail Cold-Chain Ends China's Luxury-Fruit Era

25 Aug 2026

A woman in Shijiazhuang bought a persimmon that turned out to be sprouting a ring of white mushrooms from its stem, and her photos have made it one of China's favorite small mysteries of the week. Researchers at the Kunming Institute of Botany asked her to send it in, turning a supermarket oddity into a citizen-science sample.

A Supermarket Persimmon Sprouted Mushrooms, and China Called It 'Good Persimmon, Many Mushrooms'

25 Aug 2026

The ¥100 Seafood Hotpot That Brought Fujian's Zhu Fugui a 500-Million-Yuan Year

23 Aug 2026

A Thousand 'Lanzhou Noodle' Shops Just Changed Their Signs to 'Qinghai Noodle'

23 Aug 2026

China traces shipment of 'formaldehyde-dipped' cabbage after viral food-safety video

22 Aug 2026

China’s “Zero‑Additive” Soy Sauce Scandal Sparks Nationwide Consumer Backlash and Calls for Label Reform

13 Sep 2025

The Chinese food market has been quietly undergoing a transformation that may soon reshape how millions of people across the country—and increasingly abroad—think about dinner. At the heart of this shift is the rapid rise of 预制菜, literally “pre‑prepared dishes,” a category that includes anything from semi‑finished stir‑fries and simmered soups to fully cooked meals that can be reheated at home or in a restaurant kitchen. In the span of just a few years the sector has exploded from a niche convenience product to a multibillion‑yuan industry, spurred by changing lifestyles, advances in food‑processing technology, and a government that has begun to treat the sector as a strategic priority.

China’s Pre‑Prepared Meal Boom: Multi‑Billion‑Yuan Growth, Policy Backing, and Calls for Transparency

12 Sep 2025