Quirky China: Epic chopsticks stunt, province may restrict burning ancestor paper and man gets social media boot for mannerisms


This week in China, a man got his 15-minutes of fame for picking up an egg with gigantic chopsticks, one Chinese province may be calling an end to an important tradition, and a man looking for love gets banned from Weibo for his strange mannerisms.

A cook from eastern China is being called “number one iron chopsticks” after he used a pair of gigantic chopsticks to pick up an egg from the ground without breaking it.

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