Why 'Punk Health' Foods Are Popular with China’s Youth

Goji berries in beer. Chinese medicinal herbs infused in coffee. Staying up all night, but eating a bowl of bird’s nest soup to feel better. You get the gist. For the last couple of years, a seemingly oxymoronic concept has been adopted by a broad, cross-section of young, urban people in China. “Punk health,” or péngkè yǎngshēng, means pairing a vice with a seemingly healthy ingredient. “People born in the 80s and 90s are almost in their 40s and 30s now, but they also don’t want to follow the same…

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