A Chinese spicy snack has gone viral. Thank ‘Chinamaxxing’ on social media

A Chinese spicy snack has gone viral. Thank ‘Chinamaxxing’ on social media

At a gleaming new factory in China’s central hinterland, masked workers in white uniforms season and sift through mounds of latiao, a popular snack that has found hungry fans overseas. Spicy, sweet and curiously chewy, Chinese latiao – literally “spicy strips” – are made by cooking wheat-flour dough under high pressure and heat. Despite their reputation as junk food, the snacks originally developed as emergency supplies have grown into an indust…