China’s Lunar New Year will be a largely pork-free affair
Thanks to African swine fever, the price of pork has skyrocketed in China, and revelers are likely to stick to chicken or duck
19 January 2020 - 07:01
Gushi County/Beijing — For Xu, a mother and wife from central China, losing her family’s entire pig herd to African swine fever almost meant not serving the cured pork, known as la rou, and dried sausage which are central to her Lunar New Year meals.
“I wasn’t going to make any this year, but then my son said ‘Ma, I want to eat sausage, every year we have it’, so I said OK I’ll make a bit,” she said, standing in her yard strung with homemade sausages, fish and cured pork on a line in a village in Gushi County, in Henan province...
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