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The naked Chinese
restaurants
A women's
magazine in southwestern
China has shot tapes of a
two-hour feast served on a
 naked man's body in response
to a flap last year over a
Japanese restaurant in China
that served sushi meal on women's
body and Chinese food served
on a women body with only
body paint on.
New Female, a
magazine under the All-China
Women's Federation in
Chongqing, last week gave
China Central TV tapes of a
film shot in June 2004 of
seven women eating a largely
Japanese-style feast off the
body of a 21-year-old man
with a banana leaf over his
private parts, said magazine
editor-in-chief Wang Ji.
The CCTV news
channel ran ''a few
seconds'' of the broadcast,
Wang said. Local media and
the popular Chinese news
portal Sina.com have since
followed up with their own
stories, some with photos of
the meal.
Wang said New
Female organized the private
meal after noting the
popular outrage over the use
of two female university
students at the upscale
Japanese Hefeng Village
Huaishi Cuisine restaurant
complex in Kunming, also a
city in southwestern China.
Serving food
on a man has raised a storm
of new criticism, much of it
expressed online after Chongqing residents learned
of the event last year, Wang
said.
''I remember
one comment, saying this is
OK for women, but not for
men. As you know,
traditionally men's position
in society is above that of
women,'' said Wang, who is a
man. ''But this (meal) is a
kind of criticism. You don't
want to insult the women.''
Senior staff
members at the Hefeng
Village restaurant say they
stopped serving sushi on
naked women after the story
came to light.
The restaurant said it sold
meals on women, who were
decorated with shells and
stones, in keeping with a
Japanese culinary tradition.
Meals there
would cost about 1,000 yuan
($124). In May this year,
the State Administration of
Industry and Commerce
expressly banned meals on
naked women.
Unlike the
restaurant in Kunming, New
Female did not sell tickets
to the meal or involve the
public in any way, Wang
said. He said the man
involved was chosen from 43
male models who tried out
for the volunteer job. The
film cost about 4,000 yuan.
The female
diners, who were watched
by more than 10 magazine
staff members,
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took about 40
minutes to relax with the
man, nicknamed Xiao Bo,
according to the Chongqing
Evening News. When one woman
asked the man if he was
hungry, he said he was, and
cold as well, the paper
said. New Female
magazine has no plans to
repeat the event, Wang said.
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International, Inc. and Gale Group
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