No Chinese, please!
02/13/2008 @ 4:00 pm
Almost 76 percent of the respondents to a telephone survey conducted in Japan by Kyodo News last weekend said they will no longer use food items that come from China.
According to Kyodo, the percentage of people in Japan who use Chinese food items dropped from around 58% last year to only 21.6% after the poison dumpling scandal hit in Japan.
Very strange. Japan is importing 61% foods by calorie base from abroad. Probably rice is the only one that is produced almost 100% in Japan. Also for meats, eggs and milk products, most grains for the stock farming are imported from US, Australia etc.
Those 76% people don’t take the fact into account that Japan is importing huge amount of Chinese foods. Even they don’t eat Chinese frozen gyoza they can’t stop eating many Chinese food items, such as vegetables, fish, soy beans and so on.
February 13th, 2008 at 5:54 pmI’d be very surprised if they were successful. China makes a lot of the raw ingredients for food these days (coloring, flavoring, etc.). It might not be made in China, but many processed foods have ingredients from China.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:26 amI don’t think there’ll be a big boycott, but it could lead to certain brands losing popularity.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:12 amI have to admit, I’m pretty sick of hearing about “gyoza-gate” (TBS’s words, not mine).
However, this HAS led to a noticible drop in gyoza prices at my local grocery store, of which I’ve taken advantage!
February 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm