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South China Morning Post/南华早报：

Chinese foodies offer help after Denmark complains about its oyster problem online

A social media post by the Danish embassy in China, complaining about Pacific oysters invading the Danish coast, has triggered huge interest among the Chinese.

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In the span of a few days, the post was shared almost 14,000 times on the Chinese microblogging platform, garnering some 8,000 likes and almost 15,000 comments.

Chinese seafood enthusiasts were delighted.

“Give us free visa and we will fix your problem in a month,” one internet user wrote.

“Send us in, and it will become an endangered species soon,” another wrote.

Chinese businesses cash in on Denmark’s oyster crisis

Every crisis is an opportunity. And for Chinese businesses, the current one of stubborn oyster intruders overrunning parts of the coast of Denmark is spelling fortune and feasts.

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“We have agreed on further collaboration to bring Denmark’s oysters to China,”an Alibaba spokesperson said in a statement.

That came after a representative of Alibaba’s online shopping site Tmall visited Danish diplomats in Beijing on Friday to discuss how to combat “the plague of the exotic mollusks”.

foodie 吃货

oyster 生蚝；牡蛎

embassy 大使馆

trigger 触发；引发

garner 获得

like 赞

endangered species 濒危物种

cash in 从…中牟利

stubborn 难对付的

intruder 侵入者

overrun 泛滥

spell 意味着

diplomat 外交官

combat 与…战斗

plague 瘟疫

exotic 外来的

mollusk (无脊椎)软体动物