5 articles
Business
Chinese restaurant probed after challenging customers to eat 108 dumplings
A restaurant in southwestern China is under investigation after daring customers to eat over 100 spicy dumplings in exchange for a free meal...
Carl Samson
Environmental
Honoring my scallions: How my Asian parents’ food waste made me an environmentalist
Growing up as a low-income, first-generation Asian American, I was motivated by my immigrant parents’ food insecurity to fight for our plane...
Celine Pun
Canadian students saved customers $450k in grocery bills with their ‘peculiar’ delivery service
Canadian university students Sang Le and Arielle Lok created Peko Produce, a produce delivery service that reduces food waste and promotes ...
News
Chinese Restaurant Sparks Outrage For Weighing Customers Before They Can Order
A Chinese restaurant in Hunan Province, China has issued an online apology for encouraging customers to weigh themselves to determine how mu...
Bryan Ke
Asia
Chinese Factory Uses 1 Billion Cockroaches to Eat 55 Tons of Food Waste a Day
A factory in eastern China is raising one billion cockroaches to help process tons of food waste every day. The plant, located in Jinan, Sha...