China perfected vegetable-based 'fake meat' long before Impossible Burgers

When 29-year-old Wang Jianguang was growing up in a poor neighborhood in China's northern Shanxi province, his family would buy him chicken wings with soy sauce as a rare treat.Except they weren't actually made of chicken. The wings were an intricate combination of soybeans and peanuts.

China perfected vegetable-based 'fake meat' long before Impossible Burgers