{"id":141893,"date":"2025-12-07T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141893"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:00:16","slug":"boiling-point-chinas-pre-made-meals-are-testing-trust-at-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141893","title":{"rendered":"Boiling point: China\u2019s pre-made meals are testing trust at the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThey promise consistency, cost savings and the speed demanded by modern life. But in a culture that reveres freshness and the wok hei benchmark for Chinese dishes, the rapid rise of industrially processed pre-made meals has stirred a heated debate \u2013 and simmering anger.<br \/>\nThe recent public outcry has been driven not by food safety fears, but by a perceived lack of transparency.<br \/>\nDiners at restaurants are increasingly incensed about paying premium prices for reheated factory packets served without&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3334532\/plate-expectations-why-chinas-pre-made-meal-boom-hard-swallow?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThey promise consistency, cost savings and the speed demanded by modern life. But in a culture that reveres freshness and the wok hei benchmark&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}