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
People are taking this as a dig on China, but it's a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.
154As far as I understand from the article, by Chinese law what they're accusing him of is a crime, so technically this is much, much stupider.
56We never did really get over our tribal period.
16Well said.
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At first I thought this was going to be a piece about Uncle Roger, but reality is funnier than anything he could ever put out.
75Uncle Roger lovers loves Uncle Wang Gang. Him never making fried rice again is very sad. Haiyaa!
21First they banned Uncle Roger, and now they’re coming after Chef Wang Gang :(
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I was going to say, I assume this is uncle Roger again but apparently not lol
16We need Uncle Roger to comment on this.
9Fuck Uncle Roger. Party sell out piece of shit.
-12Didn't he joke about the CPP in his own standup and is now banned from entering China because of it?
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Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war. A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.
I mean... There's stupid and then there's stupid.
54Was bombing in the 50s something where they'd say, "oh look, there's some smoke from a fire, let's hit that"? Or was it more like, "ok, this looks like the target area coming up, let's drop our bombs and hope they hit something useful and explode properly, or at least explode when an enemy finds them during this war"?
I mean, I know WWII bombing was like the latter and at some point they drastically improved precision and communication between ground teams and bomber teams, but had they done so yet by the Korean war?
16Even in WWII bombers would visually identify target areas. A valley of suspected enemy positions that is the target area is much less easily confused for the valley next to it if there is a dumbass running a fire.
See also why London's lights were turned off in WWII.
28Overwhelmingly type A. However, at least according to my faulty memory of the literature I've read, they were doing some of the initial testing with guided munitions. Mostly focused on bridges, though, which is an odd place for fried rice. Anything else seems like dumb (bad) luck.
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Egg fried rice is seriously taboo cause some guy died 75 years ago? Lol
53It’s fascinating how authoritarians demand respect, but throw fits over such petty symbols. “Our DIVINELY chosen, absolutely perfect leader’s own son was killed while DEFINITELY NOT cooking with eggs. How dare ANY true citizen take pride in making such a VULGAR dish?! Egg fried rice shakes the very foundations of our flawless, unshakable regime!”
51The dumbest thing about that to me is that if the story about Mao is taboo, then people are not supposed to be talking about it.
If it's also something as mundane as egg fried rice, then it becomes possible that this chef simply forgot the taboo story because nobody talks about it.
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22Lemmy.ml allows that image to be hosted there? I’m surprised.
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Some guy died 75 years ago cooking egg fried rice
5Allegedly
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Thanks China, without your censorship I wouldn’t have learned this absolutely humiliating story of your past. You are so weak because your pilots cook rice in eggs! Now the secret is out!
38The Streisand Effect
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36At least they made a huge fucking deal about it so everyone knows now.
32I... what?
25What's sad is that the same level of stupidity could be said about America with anything that someone is immature enough to get offended over. At least we don't disappear people all day every day constantly. If we keep getting offended by stupid shit then it becomes increasingly more possible though.
20In communist China the president dissappear you, in capitalist America the pentagon dissappear the president*
*just kidding... I hope
7Not constantly... There were those badgeless, patch less guys throwing people into minivans a few of summers ago. Also people straight up getting murdered in the streets (or their own fucking beds) by "public safety" officers.
Not to defend China cause they have their own brand of fucking awful, just pointing out that there's a whole rainbow of ways to be terrible and these are but a few.
7Watch out or the tankies will show up to disappear you
7I ask purely out of laziness for something I'm sure I could find in a basic search far shorter than this post, but, what exactly is a tankie? I see it used here as a (I assume) derogatory term but the definition is never obvious based on context clues... I assume something, something pro-CCP / Tianemen massacre?
5Come fucking fight me China. I don't give a shit.
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“As an ordinary person who gets a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, he should at least not be disrespectful to this country and the people who sacrificed for this country.”
So, uh, someone unordinary, who doesn't get a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, can?
17The subtext here is that YouTube is banned in China, so someone like Wang Gong using it very likely means it is a ministry of information cultural export program of some kind to begin with.
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Ccp got egg on their face here
16This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Chinese celebrity chef has apologised after he was accused of insulting the memory of Mao Zedong’s son by posting a video about how to cook egg fried rice.
“As a chef, I will never make fried rice again,” Wang said in his apology on Monday after taking down the video.
Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war.
A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.
The Chinese Academy of History has said the claim about Mao Anying is a “most vicious rumour”, but the story remains popular.
The rumour – and references to egg fried rice – are now a taboo topic in China’s highly sensitive and controlled political environment.
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16Worth watching one of his egg fried rice videos. He is a craftsman. This is my favorite.
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2Looks good. Kind of basic ingredients, but could be tasty.
2Well egg fried rice only requires three ingredients: egg, fry, and rice.
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Oh cool, I didn't know about this rumour. Thanks to the glass hearts of these people now I do!
14Now I have an interesting possibly-true story to tell when the topic of fried rice comes up
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How have the Chinese not played the reverse card and intentionally celebrated cooking fried rice as a sign of bravery in the face of an adversary here?
14Getting your unit killed out of stubbornness crosses the line from bravery to just being stupid.
5Aw, Nuts
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Something tells me it would like go over about as well as dressing up as a British colonial officer to celebrate Independence Day.
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Til US airforce killed Mao's kid.
10Egg fried rice is amazing though. It shouldn't be censored any time of the year.
This is about as dumb as the Freedom Fries controversy.
9The Wang Gang strikes again!
8New groupchat name just dropped!
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this guy must have pissed off the CCP somehow, so they're going after him on social media.. people aren't organically complaining about this.. this is definitely a government driven campaign against this guy.. the complaints are just ludicrous, and specifically aimed at inflaming old tensions between the US and China.. seriously, bringing up the death of some dipshit son of Mao during the Korean War on social media? nobody really gives a fuck about that idiot kid..
the CCP are just extorting money from this guy and this is how they go about it
8This reeks of normal human stupidity.
3nobody gives a shit about Mao's idiot son who Mao sent out to die in the mud in Korea, just to get rid of him.. nobody in China gives a shit about that, and nobody believes he was defending them against anything..
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YouTube is banned in China, so anyone posting to it regularly from behind the great firewall is likely doing it with CCP approval in the first place. All of these channels are subtle propaganda in the "approved cultural exports" sense.
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I'm pedantic enough to start a trend on tiktok of bad Chinese fried rice cooking, like "how bad can you make it while still be considered Chinese fried rice"
8I spilled egg fried rice all over myself watching US bombers drop their load in Korea & a GI shouted 'this nigga eating egg fried rice' & everyone laughed and killed me
5This happened three years ago, how the hell does this become news now
2because he did it again? Have you read the article, yes?
This year’s gaffe was Wang’s third offence. He released similar videos around the time of the anniversary of Mao Anying’s death in 2018 and 2020, both times prompting an outcry on social media.
10Lmao aight my bad then
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Boy, that Chef must have egg on his face.
1Citizens doing the pillorying, remember, not the state.
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