Sky Canaves, lead blogger of Wall Street Journal’s China Journal blog, highlights the ingenious solution to the lack of food options at the Olympic Green. Too bad the solution results in an exploding lunch box! (h/t Shanghaiist, China Herald) According to her post:
Due to the lack of cooking facilities, a hot meal can be hard to find. So here’s an ingenious solution: a self-heating box of “spicy chicken” for 20 yuan ($3). Among the Games venues around Beijing, we’ve only seen this offered at the Olympic Green, where the staff have got the instant meal-making process down to a science.
Actually the meal looks pretty tasty compared to MacDonalds to me. But then again I prefer the Air China Cathay Pacific Chinese food to the (coach class) United Airlines American food.
Video courtesy of WallStreetJournal. Direct link to the video here.
I think Sky Canaves deserves combat pay for blogging in these conditions. When she is not busy exploding lunchboxes, she is interviewing Olympic Gold Medalists like Nastia Liukin.
My friend, who is obsessed with lunchboxes and lunchbox recipes, probably didn’t think she would see something like this!
What an invention in Chinese style!:)
好一个因地制宜。
I want my 3 minutes back. There was no explosion as promised.
I actually had one of these while I was in the Olympic Green. (I wasn’t about to go to McD’s) It tasted pretty good. It was small but what it lacked in size or gourmet-ness it made up for in Entertainment. I thought it was tons of fun and it was REALLY hot.
I would eat it again. Maybe not for the flavor but defiantly for the fun. :o) (though it didn’t taste bad at all) It would be perfect for a long hike on the wall and a picnic lunch!