University student fed up with housemate stealing her food sets ingenious trap

A university student got her 15 minutes of fame recently when her elaborate plan to get back at her thieving roommate went viral on the internet.

The girl said her roommate had been secretly stealing her food from the fridge, which prompted her to come up with the plan to lay out fake food as a trap.

The student, from an unnamed university in China, said she was forced to act after she discovered that her roommate had a bad habit of stealing food, and thought long and hard about confronting her.

In the end, she came up with an elaborate plan to create a tasty-looking but fake breaded chicken cutlet.

The cutlet is almost indistinguishable from the original – and looked just as tasty until it was bitten into.


The student posted a step-by-step process online, which shows how she used two pieces of cardboard as the supposed chicken fillet, which she shaped with a knife to give it a round, smooth look.

She then dipped the cardboard fillet in soy sauce, flour and breadcrumbs, after which she put it into a pan to fry.

The result was a crispy cardboard cutlet, onto which she added chilli powder just for good measure.


The pictures have also been shared hundreds of thousands of times.

But Internet users said they still wanted to eat the expertly-made fake food, despite the fact that they already knew it was not real.

The student did not reveal the end of the story after it was placed in the fridge.