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To help celebrate the annual Mid-Autumn Festival in China and Singapore — Chinese store, Goods of Desire, created mooncakes that are butts.
Why butts, you ask? Traditional mooncakes are made especially for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is dedicated to lunar worship and moon-watching. Mission accomplished, China… We can’t take our eyes off these moons.
[via Incredible Things]
Remember when cotton candy was nothing but a big ol’ mess of sugary pink fluff? Now, in the hands of a street vendor in Ciqikou, Chongqing, China — cotton candy becomes art.
[via Buzzfeed]
They’ve been programmed to cut our meat, flip our pancakes, and even help bake our cupcakes. Now, an army of robots has been assembled to help slice our noodles. The Chef Cui robot, created by Chinese restaurateur Cui Runguan, is in answer to rising labor costs in China.
At around $2,000 each, the noodlebot is a bargain compared to the $4,700 that a full-time noodle cook would cost. And, the restaurant would be spared from having to listen to someone complain about making noodles all day. Although, the angry glowing eyes of the Chef Cui do not help.
[via The World’s Best Ever]
As most of us in the western world will attest, the fruit pit is a nuisance — something picked out of our produce, or eaten around and discarded. Or, in the case of those god-awful watermelon pits, enthusiastically gathered in our cheek and spit across the picnic table.
The Butcher, The Chef & The Swordsman is a Chinese action flick headed stateside this month. It follows the history of a magical blade, that in the hands of our three title characters, helps form their destiny.