It can be said that Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security is angry with those who imitate the image of Salt Bae. Because this image, to Vietnamese people, is reminiscent of the image of Minister To Lam opening his mouth to eat a piece of gilded beef, which looks very crude. It shows a style that lacks seriousness and also shows a lavish eating game that burns money, especially taxpayers’ money.
After the clip of eating gilded beef was posted online, many Vietnamese people imitated the image of Salt Bae, with many different angles. Some people parodied the act of sprinkling salt, others parodied the image of using a dagger to put a piece of meat into the mouth of an animal. However, those who put a piece of meat into the animal’s mouth were abroad, To Lam could not send troops to arrest people.
Peter Lam Bui sold beef noodle soup in Da Nang, he just imitated Salt Bae’s act of sprinkling salt, which Mr. To Lam took revenge on him by arresting him. Peter Lam Bui (ie Bui Tuan Lam) simply sprinkled onions in the style of Salt Bae, of course this action is not guilty. However, because he had a habit of being startled, General To arrested him, and of course had to convict him of a different crime, not a sprinkling onion.
It can be seen that, after eating the infamous piece of gold-plated beef, Mr. To Lam became sensitive to the image of Salt Bae. Unknowingly or intentionally, Zing News recently published an article with the title, “The toxicity behind the culinary empire of the “Salt Sprinkle.” The article talks about many former employees accusing Salt Bae of stealing tips, discriminating and firing workers without reason and forcing female employees to wear sexy clothes. Everything that happens inside the restaurant is not as flashy as it seems. The article would be a no-brainer, if only for the content. However, for To Lam, it is very vulnerable, when it comes to the salt sprinkling, this article is not necessarily an accidental article.
There are pranks, cursing, sarcasm, insiders know people are targeting them, but can’t do anything about it. Peter Lam Bui would not have been retaliated against by To Lam, had he not been “stained” by participating in some pro-democracy activities. Because of such a “black stain,” To Lam took revenge on Peter Lam Bui by arresting him and adding it to the crime of “Making, storing, spreading or propagating information, documents and items aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” defined in Article 117 of the 2015 Criminal Code.
Returning to the article “The poison behind the culinary empire of the ‘Sprinkling with salt’,” the author of this article will be less dangerous than Mr. Bui Tuan Lam, because no journalist does not have a “black stain” like Mr. Lam. To Lam could not use the pretext of arrest and other charges to take revenge.
To Lam’s image of eating beef inlaid with gold is a black mark that cannot be washed away. One minute of being greedy for food, turned Mr. To Lam into an ugly, gluttonous, greedy and wasteful minister, with a meal worth thousands of British pound sterlings.
For someone who knows how to do politics, they would never eat such meals. Don’t say that eating in London is halfway around the world from Vietnam, no one can see it. Now is the 4.0 era, the era of 5G internet, all information is transmitted very quickly around the globe. To Lam would not have thought of this, if he had thought about it, he would not have eaten.
To Lam is the strangest minister compared to his predecessors, the man who left an embarrassing mark on the face of the government, leaving a shameful image for officials of his rank. Low morals, gluttony both literally and figuratively, thoughtless etc… Yet he rose to the position of Minister and almost became the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
