You’ll never believe who just sold me a meat pie
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BUSINESS is booming for a meat-pie vendor in central China due to his uncanny likeness to President Xi Jinping.
Photos posted online by the China Youth Network show throngs of young people surrounding and taking photos of the man, Shao Jianhua, who runs the food stall in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province.
Shao, who opened his no-frills operation in 2009 after moving to Changsha from Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, told the website that his busiest time is when students from nearby Hunan University are just getting out of class.
“When business is at its peak, I make 1,600 pies a day,” he said.
Xi was not mentioned by name in any of the Chinese media reports, but users of popular online social networks were quick to note the likeness, with some people joking yesterday that Shao was the president’s “long-lost brother.”
Others suggested that the doppelganger was actually Xi in disguise.
“Is he going incognito, to observe the people’s condition?” asked a user of Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter.
Last year, a report by a Hong Kong newspaper that Xi had taken a taxi in Beijing spread like wildfire on the web, but Xinhua news agency quickly denied the piece.
Xi is not the only state leader who has a street vendor lookalike.
In March, photos circulated of a skewered-meat vendor in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, who bore a striking resemblance to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, drawing thousands of comments online.
“If Kim Jong Un saw these pictures, I’m sure he’d hire him as a body double,” a person wrote at the time.
The vendor — like Kim — has a round face and sports a side-shaved haircut.
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