Two great stories to get your weekend started

First off, we'd like you to think of us when you go out to eat this weekend - all is not gourmet food here. Seems that a popular fried dumpling restaurant cook was seen scratching his feet while wrapping dumplings yesterday.

Now the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration is investigating the Shengji Yipin Fried Dumpling fast-food chain that operates more than 20 restaurants in Shanghai.

A consumer complained that when he was having supper at the chain's SML Center branch on Xujiahui Road on Tuesday evening, he looked into the kitchen and saw a cook take off one of his shoes and socks and scratch his feet right beside the raw dumplings.

The consumer wanted apologies from the staff. Instead, several restaurant employees started a fight with him.

The restaurant staff claimed the foot-scratching "was no big deal" and said he could only "receive apologies in his dreams."

Officials with the Shanghai FDA said the restaurant is closed until it improves its sanitation, and may receive further punishment after an investigation.

The cook and other staff finally apologized to the consumer yesterday and gave him a refund. You can be sure that restaurant is on our "no-go" list.

The second story is for all those guys who think it might be safe to fool around. Here in China, the ladies take it seriously. A woman in central China's Hunan Province was jailed for 11 years on Wednesday for castrating her husband while he slept.

The woman pled guilty to intentional injury at a court in Zhuzhou City in the province, reported Xiaoxiang Morning Herald yesterday.

She suspected her husband was having affairs as he didn't want to have sex with her. The court said it had shown leniency at the request of the woman's husband and daughter. When on May 23 her husband turned down an offer of sex, the woman said she suspected he was cheating on her and decided to "deprive him of his sexual functioning."

After giving her husband sleeping pills and seeing he was asleep, she tied him to the bed and began cutting off his testicles. During this, her husband awoke and begged her to stop, promising never to stray again.

But his wife finished the job, and then proceeded to call her brother-in-law, telling him to "stitch the wound."

The next day she turned herself in.