{"id":187855,"date":"2015-10-20T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=187855"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:39:26","slug":"roaches-at-xis-favorite-steamed-bun-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/10\/roaches-at-xis-favorite-steamed-bun-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Netizen Voices: Hygiene Issues at Qingfeng"},"content":{"rendered":"
In December 2013, Xi Jinping launched an <\/span>ongoing presidential image-crafting campaign<\/span><\/a> at a Qingfeng Steamed Bun franchise in Beijing, where he ate alongside a dining room full of surprised patrons. Photographic evidence of Xi\u2019s visit to the modest fast food outlet came in the form of a <\/span>(possibly strategic) post to Weibo<\/span><\/a>, and netizens took to the popular microblogging platform to speculate on <\/span>what the president\u2019s order might say about his politics<\/span><\/a>. Xi\u2019s steamed bun lunch <\/span>won the fast food chain much free publicity<\/span><\/a>, attracted <\/span>marginalized petitioners to the limelight<\/span><\/a>, and also earned the president the nickname <\/span>\u201cSteamed Bun Xi\u201d (<\/span>X\u00ed B\u0101ozi \u4e60\u5305\u5b50)<\/span><\/a>\u2014which itself has inspired the coinage of <\/span>politically significant spin-off Internet terms<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Nearly two years after Xi\u2019s monumental lunch, two Qingfeng outlets in Beijing have attracted criticism after Weibo users exposed the unordered ingredients that accompanied their steamed buns:<\/p>\n Bieliwo5596167393<\/em> (@\u522b\u7406\u62115596167393):\u00a0I just bought some steamed buns at the Qingfeng at Hongcheng Guotai in Beijing\u2019s Shunyi district! Everybody watch out! I discovered a cockroach in retreat. Yuck, so nauseating (September 14, 2015) [Chinese<\/a><\/strong>]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n @Danger_kid: At the Qingfeng Steamed Bun shop near Dahui Temple, I poured what I thought to be the dregs of vinegar, and out came some aphids. This picture shows what came out on my second pour.\u00a0The first the little dish was filled to the brim. (October 15, 2015) [Chinese<\/a><\/strong>]\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Formal Chinese news\u00a0picked up the story, coverage from Youth.cn\u00a0notes<\/a> that the two shops have temporarily suspended business, and that all of the chain’s Beijing restaurants will be undergroing third-party safety inspections. Replying to the news coverage, netizen Tongzhanzhuanyuan <\/span><\/em>(<\/span>@\u7edf\u6218\u4e13\u5458)<\/span>\u00a0commented on Xi Jinping’s ongoing Party corruption purge<\/a>, “Aha, so the highest of steamed buns is also corrupt.” Fellow Weibo user\u00a0Taikongbaoleiziyouhao <\/span><\/em>(@\u592a\u7a7a\u5821\u5792\u81ea\u7531\u53f7) jokingly suggested this could be a reactionary plot, “<\/span>This is a case of counter-revolutionary entrapment. Don\u2019t cry Qingfeng, stand your ground.” Likewise, Weibo user\u00a0Tingyuloushangtingyuren <\/em>(@\u542c\u96e8\u697c\u4e0a\u542c\u96e8\u4eba) resorted to blaming a common government scapegoat: “Hostile forces<\/span><\/a> did this.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n CDT Chinese coverage notes that several Weibo responses to the news coverage contained negative comments about Xi<\/strong><\/a>, and remained online long enough to win the approval of fellow netizens:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n For example, the above comment by\u00a0Lisixiang\u00a0<\/em>(@\u91cc\u56db\u8c61), which was “liked” 300 times at the time of the screenshot, reads, “The emperor’s face is swollen after this hit, hahaha!” \u00a0Lanlan19835122 <\/em>(@\u5170\u517019835122)’s response, which garnered 202 “likes,” says, “Is this not a huge loss of face for Xi? Nice move.”<\/p>\n Read more about Xi Jinping’s image-crafting campaign<\/a> and food safety scandals<\/a> in China, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In December 2013, Xi Jinping launched an ongoing presidential image-crafting campaign at a Qingfeng Steamed Bun franchise in Beijing, where he ate alongside a dining room full of surprised patrons. Photographic evidence of Xi\u2019s visit to the modest fast food outlet came in the form of a (possibly strategic) post to Weibo, and netizens took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":187864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,14744,14745,14746,5,4202],"tags":[5811,3558,15393,14561,14820,16461],"class_list":["post-187855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","category-translation","tag-beijing","tag-food-safety","tag-netizen-voices","tag-sina-weibo","tag-weibo","tag-xi-jinpings-steamed-buns","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n