• California has protections for farm workers to make sure they get adequate rest periods and water, but is anyone enforcing them? Not really. [LAT via SFoodie]
• Underground Secret Dining in Jakarta trumps anything the kids are doing in Brooklyn or San Francisco: Guests have no idea what will be served until they show up. [SceneAsia/WSJ]
• How Chris Ying went from being a line cook, and helping out at Mission Street Food, to becoming food editor at McSweeney’s and launching Lucky Peach. [Feast]
• With poor eating habits, little exercise, and smoking, China is basically turning into America circa 1965, and they have the same chronic diseases to show for it. [WP]
• Sugar refiners are suing corn-syrup processors over the term “corn sugar,” and needless to say, relations between the two are anything but sweet. [ABC News]
• Josh Ozersky ponders an eternal mystery: Why are Jews so smitten with Chinese food? [Time]
• New research about deals sites suggest people are just as much suckers for small discounts as large ones. [NRN]
