Meet Xi Jinping's lookalike: Meat pie hawker cuts a presidential figure in Hunan
Pie fans want photos more than popular food after story goes viral
Customers queued up outside a food stall in the capital of Hunan province, not for its Zhejiang-style meat pie served with dried and preserved vegetables, but a picture of the hawker.
Photos of the food stall close to the dormitory of Hunan University in Changsha went viral on mainland social media this morning, when microbloggers noticed that the hawker bore a remarkable resemblance to President Xi Jinping.
“I had to make 1,600 meat pies a day during the peak season,” Shao Jianhua, the hawker from Hangzhou, said, adding that he opened the food stall after moving to Changsha five years ago.
He wanted to sell the snack, which is popular in his hometown
His meat pies, sold at 3.5 yuan (HK$4.33) each, won four stars out of five on Dianping.com, the mainland’s most popular dining guide online, with all of the raters noting the taste, not the look of the peddler.
“You’d better avoid lunch and dinner hours, or it’s overcrowded,” one of the raters posted in May.
