It used to be that the colder things got, the hotter the business of selling ginger duck. But at the end of last year, several people were poisoned after consuming bootleg rice wine, and since rice wine is a central ingredient in ginger duck, the incidents cast a chill over sales of this wintertime tonic.
冬至一過，全臺氣溫連連下降，原本越冷越熱賣的薑母鴨市場，卻因為去年底假米酒中毒事件，營業額降到了冰點。