Scandal in Kunming

I do love Yunnan...and oh those naughty Japs, will they ever learn? This caper should go back to Tokyo where it belongs.

This from the Japan Times (the story was also carried by other papers but the pages were blocked when I tried them.

Sushi on naked women causes uproar in Chinese city


Tuesday, April 6, 2004 at 08:00 JST
BEIJING — A Japanese restaurant which served sushi on the body of nearly naked women has caused a storm of controversy in the conservative southwest Chinese city of Kunming.

The Hefengcun Huaishi restaurant launched a promotional "feast on a beauty's body," for local journalists last Friday, hiring two attractive fair-skinned college girls to lie on tables, with sushi and other food and flowers placed on their bare bodies covered with thin gauze.