SKIRMISHER

Remember that story we breathlessly posted last week about some clever Chinese steamed buns maker who used melted cardboard as “pork” in their succullently tasty Chinese snack? It turns out a Beijing TV reporter, named Zi, simply “cooked it up” for the darned ratings.

Zi, from a life-style channel with the station, was found to have directed a video that showed vividly how the cardboard-filled buns were made merely with a home digital video camera, the TV station said.

Zi has admitted to police that he brought the pork, flour and cardboard to a residential area in rural Beijing in June and visited there twice, the TV station said.

Zi told four persons at the booth that he was buying breakfast for migrant workers on his construction site and told them to use cardboard pulp as a pork substitute. Zi then filmed the process.

Zi also weaved in a conversation with one of the men, identified as Wei, in the video to make the story more convincing.

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