{"id":56128,"date":"2023-06-21T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/21\/chinese-culinary-craze-of-stir-fried-stones-rocks-the-internet"},"modified":"2023-06-21T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:23:05","slug":"chinese-culinary-craze-of-stir-fried-stones-rocks-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56128","title":{"rendered":"Chinese culinary craze of stir-fried stones rocks the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resurgence of centuries-old <em>suodiu<\/em> (suck and discard) dish has seen chefs frying up pebbles with ginger and chilli<\/p>\n<p>In tough economic times, a new money-saving ingredient for stir-fries is gaining in popularity among Chinese internet users: rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of chefs making stir-fried rocks are the <a href=\"https:\/\/radii.co\/article\/stir-fried-rocks-china\">latest trend<\/a> on Chinese social media. Some show chefs frying up pebbles with garlic and chilli at busy night markets, while others depict bucolic scenes of villagers cooking freshly fished stones on a riverbank.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/21\/chinese-culinary-craze-of-stir-fried-stones-rocks-the-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resurgence of centuries-old suodiu (suck and discard) dish has seen chefs frying up pebbles with ginger and chilliIn tough economic times, a new money-saving ingredient for stir-fries is gaining in popularity among Chinese internet users: rocks.Videos &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[50,311,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-food","category-social-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56128","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56129,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56128\/revisions\/56129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}