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28 Yuan for Two Wontons: A Shanghai Price Goes Viral in China's 'Price Assassin' Debate

A Shanghai diner's post about paying 28 yuan — about $4 — for a serving of wontons containing exactly two dumplings has trended on Weibo, drawing thousands of comments and reviving the nationwide "price assassin" argument: unremarkable-seeming foods priced like luxuries. The restaurant's defense — premium pork, hand-rendered lard, seasonal shrimp roe — has done little to quiet the question underneath: in a value-conscious China, what is a fair price for comfort food?

Sports

Zheng Qinwen's US Open Run Ends in the Quarterfinals — and a Standing Ovation

Zheng Qinwen's US Open run ended on September 9 with a 1–2 quarterfinal loss to Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina — but the New York crowd rose to applaud her off the court, and days earlier UN Women had reposted her words about a young woman's value not being defined by one result or others' expectations. From ranked 121st and grinding through qualifying, she leaves Flushing Meadows back inside the top 60 and, in China, at the center of a conversation about winning, losing and what female athletes owe anyone at all.

China's state broadcaster CMG will hold the first World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition on October 29, sending robots up the sacred mountain's real stone path — about 3.8 kilometers and more than 3,100 steps from Red Gate to Midway Gate to Heaven. Organizers are billing the UNESCO-listed peak as an 'ultimate testing ground' for embodied AI: uneven stairs, mist and crowds that no lab can replicate.