Across China: How a viral video brought decades-old wok back to life
HANGZHOU, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- It took just 25 seconds for 20,000 woks to be sold.
There was no celebrity endorsement, no countdown livestream and no discount frenzy. The product was a plain stainless steel wok that had vanished from store shelves more than a decade ago, resurrected after a single 15-second video had rippled across China's social media feeds.
In the clip, posted last October on popular sho