Chinese celebrity chef offends China with egg fried rice video
Chinese celebrity chef offends China with egg fried rice video
Wang Gang accused of deliberately pushing tutorial around anniversary of death of Mao Anying
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Isn't this an old story? I don't think this happened recently in the least. Anyway, Chef Wang Gang is phenomenal, one of my favorite YouTube cooking channels, highly recommended for Sichuan recipes of varying complexity, from simple to challenging.
The article was published today so: no?
This event happened in 2020, though, I have no idea why they're publishing this now.
Yup you're right. Meanwhile Newsweek (as reliable as they are...) reported on it but their dates are even less coherent.
I'd guess slow news week, but, uh, I don't think that's true.
I dunno! But if it means more people watch Wang Gang's videos, cool! He's a great chef and he teaches a lot of interesting and varied techniques in his videos.
According to Newsweek it's because the public backlash only happened now:
https://www.newsweek.com/internet-chef-apologizes-controversial-cooking-video-1847811
Chinese internet chef Wang Gang cooks Yangzhou fried rice in a video uploaded on October 23, 2020. On November 27, 2023, Wang came under fire on Chinese social over a video of him preparing egg fried rice, which is associated with the death of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's eldest son.
Which honestly makes this story even more absurd.
I'm fairly certain that's mistaken, I remember hearing about this in 2020.
I'm not even sure how this could surface again, despite it being around the anniversary, since I thought he took down the video that year?