介绍:
Authorities in Kunming, capital of China's southwest Yunnan province, have banned restaurants from using firewood to cook a popular chicken dish.
The move is aimed at curbing the increasingly serious air pollution.
Local environment authorities have stopped approving new restaurants that serve Chaihuoji[柴火鸡], or firewood chicken, and asked the existing ones to replace firewood with clean fuel.
The move has triggered heated debate online.
(JN) Liao Bu Qi says on weibo.com,
The firewood chicken should have been banned much earlier. I live in a neighborhood surrounded by restaurants cooking the dish. The air is SO smoky---the smoke goes straight into your eyes! It's truly horrible, simply unbearable for me. I fully support this new policy!
(JA) Dan Wang Ru Si says on news.sohu.com,
Our ancestors have cooked meals with firewood for thousands of years! The profession of "woodcutter" still exists to this day! Did it cause any air pollution in ancient times? No, because burning firewood in itself cannot directly lead to air pollution. The major cause of air pollution is industrial pollutants, rather than some kitchen smoke. The Kunming authorities simply put the cart before the horse, it's those polluting factories they should really pay more attention to.
(LUO YU) While Xiao Zhuangzhuang agrees on ynxxb.com,
If "firewood chicken" was not cooked by burning firewood, could it still be called this name? Different ways of cooking lead to different tastes of dishes. I don't think the "firewood chicken" cooked by burning natural gas can still taste the same as those cooked by burning firewood. The dish has lasted for hundreds of years, so preserve its original taste please.
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Notes:
-- Kunming follows on the heels of Chongqing in its attempt to curb smog by asking restaurants to change the way they cook some of the traditional dishes. Earlier this year, Chongqing said no to smoked bacon and chicken cooked by burning firewood.
-- 1.5 to 2.5 kg firewood is usually needed for cooking 2.5 kg chicken.
--According to Chinese law, firewood falls into the category of "highly pollutant fuel".
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(JN) Lao Yao says on ifeng.com,
Those barbecue stalls and restaurants at the night market seem to spew more smoke into the air. Why don't the environment authorities regulate them first? The air pollution caused by cooking firewood chicken is really tiny compared with them.
(LUO YU)Yao Fu Plus contributes his point of view on weibo.com,
If firewood chicken is banned in Kunming, then Beijing should also stop cooking the renowned Beijing roasted duck by burning fruitwood. There should not be double standards in the country, right?
(JA)While BID Shaw takes the issue differently on yn.yunnan.cn,
I do support the administrative order made by the Kunming authorities. The firewood chicken indeed tastes wonderful but in the past there were truly not so many restaurants specializing in cooking this dish here. Such restaurants suddenly sprang up following the soaring popularity of this dish in Kunming. And then you can find such restaurants almost everywhere. Curbing the new restaurants from being built, in my opinion, can better promote healthier competition between the existing restaurants. Otherwise, the supply would surpass the demand.
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