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Most Chinese know what is meant by “five flower meat” – it is bacon meat cut into cubes and not slices. The famed “East Slope Meat” at the famous restaurant on the West Lake is a well known dish loved the World over. Recently I discovered an easy way to prepare a snack food using sliced bacon that is most delicious and can rival the dishes I mentioned above. 

You can buy “cooked bacon” in most US supermarkets. If not, cooked the bacon slice yourself – a task most Americans know how to do in preparing breakfast every day. Now sprinkle sugar on these bacon slices and microwave the slices for 20-40 seconds depending on the number of slices you are making. You are done. The resulting slices with the sugar sticking to the bacon is sinfully delicious but most probably do not qualify as a healthy snack.  

Now when I talk to one of my grandson on the phone about this snack, he immediately said that the slices will be even better tasting if I use brown sugar instead regular sugar. Apparently, the third generation know about this recipe long before I stumbled upon it. Generation gap!