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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amy Hawkins

Chinese culinary craze of stir-fried stones rocks the internet

A chef in China stir-frying small river rocks with chilli, garlic, purple perilla and rosemary.
Social media video still showing a vendor in the central Chinese province of Hunan stir-frying small river rocks with chilli, garlic, purple perilla and rosemary. Photograph: online

In tough economic times, a new money-saving ingredient for stir-fries is gaining in popularity among Chinese internet users: rocks.

Videos of chefs making stir-fried rocks are the latest trend 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.

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