Chinese celebrity chef offends China with egg fried rice video


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A Chinese celebrity chef has apologised after he was accused of insulting the memory of Mao Zedong’s son by posting a video about how to cook egg fried rice. Wang Gang, who has more than 3.3 million followers on Weibo and more than 2 million on YouTube, faced a torrent of criticism by viewers who accused him of deliberately publishing his cooking tutorial around the anniversary of the death of Mao Anying as an act of mockery. “As a chef, I will never make fried rice again,” Wang said in his apology on Monday after taking down the video. Mao...