{"id":51931,"date":"2023-01-17T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/dragons-breath-tiktok-trend-children-hurt-indoneseia-eating-liquid-nitrogen-dragon-snack-chiki-ngebul"},"modified":"2023-01-17T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:13:18","slug":"children-hurt-eating-liquid-nitrogen-dragons-breath-snack-in-indonesian-tiktok-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51931","title":{"rendered":"Children hurt eating liquid nitrogen \u2018dragon\u2019s breath\u2019 snack in Indonesian Tiktok trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister warns of dangers of street snack after children suffer stomach burns and food poisoning from chiki ngebul, a candy doused with liquid nitrogen<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 children have been hurt in Indonesia after taking part in a TikTok trend in which they are filmed devouring a street snack infused with liquid nitrogen known colloquially as \u201cdragon\u2019s breath\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government has warned of the dangers of using liquid nitrogen in ready-to-eat food and urged greater vigilance after some children suffered stomach burns and food poisoning while eating chiki ngebul or chikibulis \u2013 a rainbow assortment of candies coated in a cloud of liquid nitrogen mist. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/dragons-breath-tiktok-trend-children-hurt-indoneseia-eating-liquid-nitrogen-dragon-snack-chiki-ngebul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister warns of dangers of street snack after children suffer stomach burns and food poisoning from chiki ngebul, a candy doused with liquid nitrogenMore than 20 children have been hurt in Indonesia after taking part in a TikTok trend in which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931\/revisions\/51932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}