Restaurant’s giant, naked baby sculptures mistaken for Buddhas, draw complaints

A hot pot restaurant in China’s Shandong province installed the ‘naughty children’ sculptures to attract customers. Instead, it had to take them down after people mistook them for religious figures.

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Giant naked Buddha sculptures in Jinan have been removed after online debate (photo from http://t.co/qF29bWIytL) pic.twitter.com/MIks6FRzsd

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) January 21, 2014

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