China outlaws 'naked sushi' meals

[LilKim]

The Chinese government has banned restaurants from serving food on the bodies of naked women.

The practice was condemned as a violation of common decency by the commerce department.

The ban also aims to stop businesses from using nude models to promote their goods, Xinhua news agency reports.

In April 2004, Chinese media said that a Japanese restaurant in south-west China was fined 2,000 yuan ($240; £130) after it offered to serve "body sushi".

The practice of eating sushi off naked or nearly-naked women has long been popular with a certain clientele in Japan.

But the authorities in the Chinese city of Kunming criticised it at the time of the fine as both unhygienic and an infringement of women's rights.

The Beijing Times newspaper said the new ban was introduced because serving food on women "insults people's moral quality".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4570901.stm

[Richard Steele]

1. Why do they hate FREEDOM so much? n/t

[kenny blankenship]

2. OK keep it serious now!

I sure hope no one tries any "smells like fish" jokes.

[ET Awful]

3. Damn! There goes this years vacation plan.

Now I'll have to go somewhere else.

[Double T]

4. Give Me A Couple Of Bottles Of Sake And A Pair Of Chop Sticks........

....and I'm There !!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Wow, imagine that - China worried about infringing a woman's rights

We should send Laura over there to learn something.

[XNASA]

6. Does this mean that Mrs. XNASA will be fired from her job?

:cry:

[CanuckAmok]

7. 'the hell?!

So, like, what are we supposed to use? Plates? That's just wrong.

[LilKim]

8. More

China bans meals served on naked women
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-22 13:58


A woman lies on a table with meals spreaded
on her naked body in this file photo. China's
market regulators issued an order on May 20
to ban this practice, saying it's an insult to
human dignity.

China's State Administration of Industry and Commerce issued a notice this weekend banning meals served on naked bodies, officially canceling the service offered by a restaurant in southwestern China that served sushi on unclothed female university students, a Beijing newspaper reported Sunday.

The Saturday pronouncement forbids the service because it "insults people's moral quality," according to the Beijing Times. Serving food on women's bodies also "spreads commercial activity with poor culture," the paper said, citing the administration's notice.

In April 2004, Chinese media reported that the Hefeng Village Huaishi Cuisine Restaurant in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, was serving sushi and other Japanese food on two naked university students as they lay on their backs.

Customers would pay 1,000 yuan (about $120) each for the meal after making reservations up to three days in advance, media said.

Flowers, shells and rocks also adorned the women's bodies, according to a photo in the Beijing paper.

The women lay calmly as people ate, a restaurant manager told Kunming media, which said this style of dining existed in "ancient Japan."

After the reports came out in April 2004, raising questions among more conservative Kunming residents, a restaurant staff member said the service had been cancelled.

The State Administration of Industry and Commerce notice bars nudity for other dining and entertainment purposes, including "meals on breasts" served in Changsha, Hunan province, and naked models used in an art exhibit at Wuyi Mountain in southern China.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/22/content_444640.htm

[AllegroRondo]

9. So, that fishy smell is just fish?