A restaurant explosion in Hangzhou and an ATM cake: Viral videos in China, July 17-21, 2017

A restaurant explosion in Hangzhou and a cake that dispenses cash.

Jia Guo

  1. Reports say two people were killed and at least 55 were injured after an explosion inside a restaurant on July 21 in Hangzhou.Nearby vehicles and shops were damaged, with shattered glass.

  2. A solar halo appeared in Ningbo, in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.

  • Slicing a watermelon in one second.

  • A cake that dispenses cash. A woman gave this cake to her mother-in-law on her birthday.

    • Jia Guo is from the coastal city of Qingdao. She has an M.A. in multimedia journalism from NYU and has worked at Facebook and Bloomberg TV in New York City. Read more

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