触目惊心：废纸箱做肉包子馅（英文）？！

中文摘要：黑早点铺用浸泡过的废纸箱做包子馅。昨天，左家庄工商所对这家黑窝点进行检查，但摊贩逃逸，工商部门对房东立案调查。　
据北京电视台报道，东四环附近的一个早点铺出售的小笼包子“与众不同”，馅是废纸箱和肥猪肉搅拌而成。摊主的加工点位于太阳宫乡十字口村的一间出租屋内，摊主将纸箱泡在装满水的大铁盆里，随后加入工业用火碱。纸箱因火碱的腐蚀性而褪色易碎。摊主将浸泡后的纸弄碎，加入肉馅中，再撒上一些猪肉香精，“包子馅”就这样制成了。包子熟后“肉馅”颜色看上去并没什么异样，很难看出肉和碎纸的区别。摊主称，用这种纸壳加肥肉做出来的包子，比真正的肉包子节省了大量成本，一天多赚近千元。
昨天，左家庄工商所对这个黑窝点进行了突击检查，但摊主逃逸，执法人员对提供场所的房东立案调查。朝阳工商分局表示，近日，他们将联合相关部门对辖区内58户早点店进行全面排查。

BEIJING (AP) - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavouring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighbourhood, state television said.

The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation.

Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavoury substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate.

China Central Television's undercover investigation features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns, called baozi, explaining the contents of the product sold in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district.

Baozi are a common snack in China, with an outer skin made from wheat or rice flour and a filling of sliced pork. Cooked by steaming in immense bamboo baskets, they are similar to but usually much bigger than the dumplings found on dim sum menus familiar to many North Americans.

In the Chinese television report, a hidden camera follows a man, whose face is not shown, into a ramshackle building where steamers are filled with the fluffy white buns.

The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground.

"What's in the recipe?" the reporter asks. "Six to four," the man says.

"You mean 60 per cent cardboard? What is the other 40 per cent?" asks the reporter. "Fatty meat," the man replies.

The bun maker and his assistants then give a demonstration on how the product is made.

Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda - a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap - then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in.

Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on-screen. The reporter takes a bite.

"This baozi filling is kind of tough. Not much taste," he says. "Can other people taste the difference?"

"Most people can't. It fools the average person," the maker says. "I don't eat them myself."

The police eventually show up and shut down the operation.