Chinese officials unamused by this cake building

To celebrate a Shanghai tenant's first anniversary of their lease, the building's owners decorated the edifice like a yummy strawberry cake. Two days later, city workers had torn the decorations off at the behest of local officials.

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By the end of the night, it looked as if someone left the cake out in the rain. According to an unconfirmed report, a passerby looked up at the workers tearing away the festive decorations and sighed, "我不認為我可以拿它,因為它花了這麼長時間來烘烤它,我再也不會有那個食譜。" Loosely translated, this means "I do not think that I can take it, because it took so long to bake it, and I will never have that recipe again."

Shanghai's 'cake building' fails to meet officials' tastes, decorations torn down after just two days (Shanghaist)