...[S]ome distributors are selling fake rice in Taiyuan, Shaanxi Province...a mixture of potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic...‘plastic rice’ is made by forming potatoes and sweet potatoes into rice-like shape, then adding industrial synthetic resins…One Chinese restaurant association official warns that eating three bowls of ‘plastic rice’ is the same as eating one vinyl bag. He added that...there would be strict investigation on the rice factory...