Cha Siu Bao - cardboard flavored

[Snowflake]

I have lost my taste for Bao

That's just disgusting.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Actually, what the article doesn't tell you is that they usually are. My brother (who is married to a Taiwanese woman) was over there (well, Taiwan, or Chinese Taipei as China likes it called), and said you knew which street vendors to eat from and which to avoid because some had a huge line, and some no customers at all. Apparently people keep tabs on the sucky vendors.

That article leaves some things out that the others articles revealed.
Among them, exactly what you said.
There are a few articles about this that cite the fact that there are many vendors, and this is a single case.

[Capt Jack]

well yeah. thats just like truck stops. hit one that has a lot of trucks, its likely decent. stop at one because you can get in and out real fast cuz its empty...chances are it sucks

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

I have lost my taste for Bao

That's just disgusting.

Actually, here in the states I think bao are quite good. I particularly like the ones from Vons (yeah, I know, gringo market) because they're sweeter than some of the others.

Then again, you can go to 99 Ranch Market and get the real thing, and pick up red bean popsicles while you're at it

[JWBear]

Why do we allow things to be sold in the US, like pet food and toothpaste,to be made in China?

[Capt Jack]

after the last year or so, I wonder the same.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Why do we allow things to be sold in the US, like pet food and toothpaste,to be made in China?

$$$$

[Ghoulish Delight]

Because it's cheap.

Several decades ago, this country made the decision (rightly) to improve health and safety standards in all industries while (less rightly) not insisting on similar progress from our trading partners. As a direct result, the cost of goods here has obviously outpaced imported goods, which we've happily consumed, dumping trillions of dollars into economies based on poor industrial standards. That money has allowed those countries to catch, and in many ways surpass, the United States in industrial productivity while maintaining their low standards of health and safety. Meanwhile, the gulf in costs has increased exponentially, and now we are completely locked in to continuing to rely on them for cheap goods else our economy faces collapse.

I'm at a loss as to how to recover from this trap we've set for ourselves. The United States completely blew it. We once had the leverage around the world to promote social change through economics. Third world countries once relied on our business to thrive to a far greater degree than we relied on them. And while it remains true that many smaller nations still rely on our business, we have become to mutually reliant upon them to really leverage that. And all the while we've supported corruption and slave-like labor.

Bleh.

[lashbear]

Ah, but does it taste like Bacon ?

[JWBear]

I seriously doubt it.