• Obama Fried Chicken? In China, it's on the menu

    Weibo user: Binson

    By Ed Flanagan, NBC News

    BEIJING – For all the grief the Obama administration is getting from China for filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization about Chinese tariffs on American chicken exports, perhaps the president should be suing China for royalties instead.

    We’ve seen Obama peddle chicken for Kentucky Fried Chicken in Hong Kong, so it was just a matter of time before he broke loose and got his own franchise here in the mainland.

    Obama Fried Chicken, or at least what we assume OFC stands for, was found earlier this week in Beijing and comes with the slogan written underneath in Chinese: “We’re so cool, aren’t we?”

    Indeed...

    Thanks to the team at Shanghaiist for the photo.

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  • Obama lookalike pitches for KFC in Hong Kong

    By Adrienne Mong

    Ok. We know the mainland Chinese have a thing for imitation goods.

    But Hong Kong?

    Thanks to the folks over at ChinaSmack, we’ve learned a little belatedly that a U.S. President Barack Obama lookalike was used in a KFC television ad to promote a new Fish Fillet Soft Roll. (The commercial was aired for a limited time in Hong Kong only just ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the U.S. last month.)

    Change is good, says the advert.

    He better believe it.

    After all, he’ll be sending a new ambassador to China in the spring.

    Btw, Yum Brands – a Louisville, KY, company which owns KFC – posted higher than expected quarterly earnings yesterday. It gets a third of its revenue from China, where it operates more than 3,700 restaurants, mostly KFC outlets.