Tuesday July 30, 2019 11MOSAIC
It may be a sizzling 40 C outside, but a
hot pot restaurant in Southwest Chi-
na’s Chongqing Municipality has come
up with a unique way of firing up its
summertime business by turning the
thermostat way down.
With the room temperature kept at
just 3 C, guests are given a housecoat to
wear as they dine out over a bubbling,steaming hot pot.
The restaurant is packed with custom-
ers swishing various delicacies in the hot
pot while wrapped in a thick jacket.
A guest surnamed Liu said she wore
sandals to the restaurant and her feet
were numb with cold by the time she
left. “But I felt warm while having the
hot pot, ” she said in a telephone inter-view with the Beijing News which posted
a video of the restaurant.
Decorated with a fake ski chalet and
Styrofoam snowman, the restaurant
received an avalanche comments from
hot pot-loving netizens. Many said were
jealous of the cool diners.The Beijing NewsNever too hot for a chilly hot pot
Followers heartbroken after cyber
host accidentally reveals her face
An online celebrity who had never revealed her
face and but was known for her “sweet and heal-
ing voice” and worshipped as a “cute goddess”
by adoring fans, recently shocked them when
a technical glitch during her live broadcast ex-
posed her as a perhaps 40-something woman.
At first everything was going smoothly during
the woman’s live broadcast with another host on
Douyu.com, a popular Chinese broadcast plat-
form. As usual a superimposed cartoon covered
her face while her cleavage was partly exposed.
Curious fans egged the woman to show her
face but she refused. “I can’t show my face until
I received gifts worth 100,000 yuan ($14,507).
After all, I’m a good-looking host,” the woman
teased her audience.
Followers immediately started clicking on
on-screen icons sending her money. The largest
pledge was 40,000 yuan.
The woman with 277,000 followers didn’t
realize her superimposed disguise had disap-
peared from the screen, revealing her to have
a face not nearly like the princess her fans
assumed her to be.
She apparently finally noticed her face wasn’t
covered when some of the 2,833 people watching
in her “room” for VIPs were quickly exiting.
“Shocked,” “heartbroken,” “dream broken” were
some of the comments left by followers who
were apparently aghast that they had been drool-
ing over a woman who seems in her 40s.Global TimesElegant pose
Too cool to fly
Three young people from Central
China’s Hubei Province couldn’t get
tickets to a sold-out concert, but their
quick thinking meant they didn’t go
away totally disappointed.
They apparently paid the operator
of an amusement ride a little extra to
hoist them high above the stadium
where pop star Lin Junjie (aka JJ Lin)
performed Saturday in Xiangyang.The trio each paid 30 yuan ($4.36)
to the ride operator who stopped
the “gyro swing” at its apex for 15
minutes, giving the young people the
perfect perch for a distant bird’s eye
view of the concert.
In a video posted on Sina Weibo,
the woman on the ride happily sings
along with JJ Lin and thousands of
concert goers in the stadium below.“The view was good. It was quiet
up in the sky and my girlfriend got
really excited,” a man surnamed Liu
who was glad to be on the ground
again, told Btime.
“I have a fear of heights and kept
screaming but my girlfriend was
enjoying the music,” said Liu.BtimeFinnish drivers warned
as heat drives thirsty
moose onto roads
Nordic countries may have
escaped the worst of Europe’s
latest heatwave, but drivers in
Finland face another danger
as moose in search of a drink
wander into traffic.
Police issued a warning
to motorists after a record
number of reports of driv-
ers crashing into moose in
the past week, as the thirsty
animals seek new sources of
water after hot weather caused
their usual ponds and drinking
places to dry up.
“This particular time of
the year it is quite warm. This
makes the animals move
further for water, and they may
cross roads,” Captain Joonas
Tikka told AFP on Friday.
“Calves grow independent
this time of year, but they are
inexperienced” and more dan-
gerous, Tikka said.AFPZoo recycles panda
poop into souvenirs
A zoo in Southwest China
that converts panda feces into
souvenirs says it’s for the envi-
ronment and anyway, it smells
great.
To celebrate the 5th birthday
of captive panda Mao Zhu, the
Yunnan Wild Animal Park in
Kunming, Yunnan Province
exhibited paper-based and
amber gifts created from the
bear’s bamboo-based excre-
ment, according to a video
posted Friday on Sina Weibo
by Pear Video.
The undigested bamboo
fiber can be seen in the amber,
said an anonymous zookeeper
interviewed on the video, and
besides, the souvenir offers
the viewer a chance to enjoy
the changing face of black-and-
white ursine droppings.
The stool has a fragrant
bamboo aroma on the first day,
the keeper noted.
The souvenirs are gifts and
not for sale, as the excretion
includes panda genes, the
keeper said.
Not wanting to release
the genes of a panda as they
were some kind of domestic
copyright issue seemed an odd
reason for not selling, internet
users noted.
While some welcomed an
interesting environmental ap-
proach, others held their noses.
“I would not want a gift
like this even though I know it
smells good,” posted one user.Pear VideoConcert sold out, fans get bird’s eye view from an amusement rideTeenage opera
performers from
the Macao Special
Administrative Region
perform Chinese
traditional opera on
Sunday during the
opening ceremony of
an art exchange camp
for young people from
Guangzhou in South
China’s Guangdong
Province, the
Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region
and Macao. Photo: VCGPage Editor:
[email protected]A group of Spider-men
take a dip on Saturday at
a water park in Southwest
China’s Chongqing, where
temperatures soared to 40 C
on the weekend. Photo: VCG