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

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.

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

A Fuzhou hotpot brand has become China's quiet restaurant phenomenon by slashing the price of a seafood feast from around 300 yuan to barely 100, using scale, short supply chains, and a one-pot-per-diner format. The line outside its 208-table flagship is now the business story visitors post most.

Roughly a thousand noodle shops across China have swapped their famous "Lanzhou" signs for "Qinghai" ones, finally putting the name on the door in line with the place most of the cooks actually come from.