People are taking this as a dig on China, but it's a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.

At first I thought this was going to be a piece about Uncle Roger, but reality is funnier than anything he could ever put out.

Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war. A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.

I mean... There's stupid and then there's stupid.

Egg fried rice is seriously taboo cause some guy died 75 years ago? Lol

Thanks China, without your censorship I wouldn’t have learned this absolutely humiliating story of your past. You are so weak because your pilots cook rice in eggs! Now the secret is out!

At least they made a huge fucking deal about it so everyone knows now.

What's sad is that the same level of stupidity could be said about America with anything that someone is immature enough to get offended over. At least we don't disappear people all day every day constantly. If we keep getting offended by stupid shit then it becomes increasingly more possible though.

Are we not going to talk about how the guy's name is Wang Gang? I mean, that's fine, I just wanted to make sure.

"China reacts to Wang Gang's eggs" could be an alternative title though.

“As an ordinary person who gets a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, he should at least not be disrespectful to this country and the people who sacrificed for this country.”

So, uh, someone unordinary, who doesn't get a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, can?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

“As a chef, I will never make fried rice again,” Wang said in his apology on Monday after taking down the video.

Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war.

A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.

The Chinese Academy of History has said the claim about Mao Anying is a “most vicious rumour”, but the story remains popular.

The rumour – and references to egg fried rice – are now a taboo topic in China’s highly sensitive and controlled political environment.

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Worth watching one of his egg fried rice videos. He is a craftsman. This is my favorite.

Ccp got egg on their face here

Oh cool, I didn't know about this rumour. Thanks to the glass hearts of these people now I do!

How have the Chinese not played the reverse card and intentionally celebrated cooking fried rice as a sign of bravery in the face of an adversary here?

Til US airforce killed Mao's kid.

this guy must have pissed off the CCP somehow, so they're going after him on social media.. people aren't organically complaining about this.. this is definitely a government driven campaign against this guy.. the complaints are just ludicrous, and specifically aimed at inflaming old tensions between the US and China.. seriously, bringing up the death of some dipshit son of Mao during the Korean War on social media? nobody really gives a fuck about that idiot kid..

the CCP are just extorting money from this guy and this is how they go about it

Egg fried rice is amazing though. It shouldn't be censored any time of the year.

This is about as dumb as the Freedom Fries controversy.

The Wang Gang strikes again!

I'm pedantic enough to start a trend on tiktok of bad Chinese fried rice cooking, like "how bad can you make it while still be considered Chinese fried rice"