Wax apple (Syzygium samarangense) has many names, such as love apple, java apple, royal apple, bellfruit, Jamaican apple, water apple, mountain apple, cloud apple, water guava, rose apple, and many more.  The fruit is native to Philippines, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Samoa. Taiwanese has developed new species of wax apple which is a really cute [...]

Bubble tea is a beverage invented in Taiwan in 1980s.  Bubble tea is a sweetly flavored tea which contains fruit, fruit syrup and / or milk.  The tea also usually contains pearl tapioca (or known as boba) which gives the beverage the name of “pearl milk tea”. Creative and innovative Taiwanese now use the beverage [...]

Wang from Changchun discovered a ring-shaped item when he ate ice cream on November 4, 2010.  His first thought of the item was condom. Mr. Yu, who was a friend of Mr. Wang, bought the ice cream from the shop downstair.  The ice cream was a favourite brand of Mr. Yu, and he usually bought [...]

A worker at Chiayi, Taiwan grew lychee which are as big as small apples.  The worker’s name is Zeng Kun-Zhang.  Zeng Kun-Zhang was champion of National Lychee Contest last year.  According to him, he spent a lot of time and efforts to cultivate the big lychee based on Goose Egg Litchi.  The properties of Goose [...]

David Zhang (@digitalboy) from Shenzhen, China fried this RSS for Spring festival. Source: Flickr, Flickr, Flickr

The value of dysplastic Chinese cabbage was increased by several folds after its outer leaves were removed.  The lousy cabbages were branded as “Alpine Baby Cabbage” from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and sold at the major supermarkets and markets. The fake baby cabbage incident was discovered by Mr. Dong who stayed at Chuiyangliu Middle St, Beijing, China.  [...]

Eating worms or insects may not be an unusual thing in some part of the world, but it is definitely weird and scary in the Chinese society.  49-year-old Cheng Ping Gui from Xipu, Xi County was putting a wiggling yellow mealworm into his mouth when reporter went to visit him.  He has been eating at [...]

Two ladies were enjoying their meal at a restaurant, and suddenly one of them screamed.  They stopped eating and took out their mobile phone to take the photo of the dish of garlic spinach.  Then they asked the restaurant owner to have a look at the dish, pointing out that there was a big insect [...]

There is one mother, Huang, in Chengdu is selling her breast milk online.  She claimed that she has extra breast milk, and she is willing to feed another child, in a condition that she charges 300 Yuan daily.  The extra breast milk makes her feel uncomfortable, and she needs to get up every night to [...]

It was found that Curdlan Gum had been used to replace fish paste for many Kanto cooking ingredients in Taiwan.  Curdlan Gum is mainly used for vegetarian products, but recently it was discovered that the Gum was added to many hot pot materials to reduce the costs.  Many shops reduce the amount of cornstarch and [...]