 There
are too many students for a canteen so lunch is brought up to
the classrooms in large cooking pots. The students queue up
for their food, wai the duty lady in thanks and then
take their meal back to their classroom. Here they have to wait
for all of their friends to be seated. Then they recite a kind
of grace before they start eating.
The following
is the grace which the students recite every day. It was translated
into English by one of our students.
"During the
time that we eat lunch, don't speak or say things that aren't
good. Don't make a noise. Take enough food for only one mouthful.
Chew the food into little pieces so that you can digest the
food properly. Before you get up from your seat, clean up
your desk. Put the plate or a bowl orderly into the enameled
basin. You mustn't waste any food. You must eat it all. There
are many starving children in the world. Pity all of the children
that don't have anything to eat. All of the food has a worth.
When you eat food you must have good manners. Don't chew the
food loudly. Don't talk when you are eating and don't say
something that is bad. Don't laugh when you are eating. Thank
you to our teachers that take care of us and all of the cooks
that make us the food we eat. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
you very much."
The following
are some of the typical meals served. Many are hot and spicy
and usually contains either rice or noodles:
Rice
Dishes |
Noodle
Dishes |
fried
chicken with rice
chicken with rice
red roast pork with rice
chicken with bamboo shoots and rice
fried rice with egg and pork
rice soup with chicken
fried pork with garlic and rice
scrambled egg with pork and rice
fried fish cakes with rice |
egg
noodle soup with meat and vegetables
pork ball noodles
fried rice noodles with soy sauce
noodles with thick gravy, meat and vegetables
thin rice noodles fried with tofu, pork, shrimp, egg and
peanuts
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