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How Fishballs Became Symbols of Protest in Hong Kong
As a clash between protesters and police played out on Chinese New Year, street-food vendors were caught in the middle.
When the Internet hashtagged the clash between protesters and police in Hong Kong on Chinese New Year the #FishballRevolution, it made clear that the chaos was about more than just the popular street food.
“[This] so-called “Fish Ball Revolution” really isn’t about fishballs at all,” Jason Y. Ng, a Hong-Kong based activist, writes in the Hong Kong Free Press. “[It] is about citizens fed up with the daily abuse by an unelected and unaccountable government led by an unelected and unaccountable chief executive.”