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\"SPAM,<\/a>
SPAM, Korean-Style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My life, teaching English in China: What do you do on a Saturday night when your friends abandon you?<\/p>\n

Eat SPAM. That\u2019s right. Go the Korean grocery store, buy a can of imported Korean SPAM Luncheon Meat, then return home, make some toast, and grab the mustard.<\/p>\n

What? You don\u2019t like SPAM? There seems to be bias in North America regarding canned meat products. For me, SPAM falls into the NCF<\/strong><\/em> category: Not Chinese Food<\/em>. I live in China, and the majority of my diet is Chinese food, but sometimes you need a taste of something different. Comfort food, perhaps.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say there isn’t SPAM in Chinese food. There’s SPAM in fried rice, SPAM hot dogs, and SPAM fried noodles. I’m being broad in my interpretation of SPAM. In Chinese food it’s not real SPAM, but a Chinese SPAM-like tinned meat. Sometimes said meat isn’t in a can and doesn’t require refrigeration. I find that both amazing and frightening.<\/p>\n

Did the Hormel Food Corporation think in 1937, the year they released SPAM, it would one day graces the tables of China, being incorporated in staple Chinese dishes? Probably not. Could they have envisioned the joy of a Canadian expatriate in China, eating a can of S<\/strong>houlder of P<\/strong>ork a<\/strong>nd H<\/strong>am manufactured in Korea? Probably not. If I had a time machine I’d travel back to shake the hands of those wonderful, SPAM-creating men.<\/p>\n

\"Ya<\/a>
Ya Baby, It's Super Light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To accompany the SPAM sandwich(es) I ate while watch Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in Magnum Force<\/em>, I drank a can<\/span> cans of Kingway Super Light Beer. How could you not drink something called Super Light? Is it so light as to be good for you? Is it the Chinese beer equivalent of ambrosia?<\/p>\n

Kingway is a Shenzhen, China, Brewery, and is fighting for market share with the Chinese beer dragon, Tsing Tao, the national brand.\u00a0 Heineken International owns a 21% stake in Kingway. The company also produces a beer called Kingway Super Fresh. (aside: that would be a great hip-hop name: MC Super Fresh).<\/p>\n

Sorry: Is it the Chinese beer equivalent of ambrosia?<\/p>\n

In a word: No. But I am trying to eat healthy. Drinking regular non-super-light beer while eating sandwiches made with tinned meat containing dangerous levels of saturated fat and sodium would not have been especially healthy.<\/p>\n

I’m giving serious consideration to translating Monty Python’s Spamalot <\/em>into Chinese and starting a small theatre company to perform the show. I adapt the script to incorporate Kingway Super Light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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