New | Canny Kim-like street vendor cooks up a storm
His identity has to remain secret - unless you buy a few more sticks of barbecue
Business has been smoking for a barbecued-meat vendor in Shenyang city, Liaoning province since he started cultivating his greatest business asset – an uncanny resemblance to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The vendor, who prefers to keep his identity secret, cut his hair in the distinct Kim fashion, donned a blue overcoat and is never far from a lit cigarette – just like the real thing, ifeng.com, the web portal of Phoenix Television, reported today.
While he spoke to the reporter at his street stall outside the gate to a college, chuckling passers-by stopped to have their photos taken with him.
When asked if he was of Korean descent, or was merely mimicking the young dictator, he replied that such details had to “remain secret”.
“Safety comes first. I can’t say much,” he said slyly. “But if you buy a few more sticks of barbecue, perhaps I might tell you.”
Kim Jong-un, the portly heir to Kim Jong-il, who ascended to power in December 2011, is a favourite butt of jokes among China’s online community.