Food of Gong's Family

      As a Chinese ancient sage has once said, "bread is the staff of life." My family in China always considered food as one of the most important parts of life. Regularly, we eat three meals every day, no tea time or night snack included. My mom is the main chef and my dad acts as an assistant sometimes (only happens when he is in a good mood). Breakfast usually consists of rice cake (my favorite), steamed rolls(my dad's favorite), soy milk and fruits. We normally take about half hour to finish our breakfast before we rush to school or work. During weekends, our breakfasts tend to be more varied, my mom used to get up early and go to nearby organic food market to buy some deep-fried dough sticks or sticky rice. But if my mom is not home, my dad and I will just skip the breakfast and jump into lunch time directly.

     Lunch usually happened when my parents were at work and I was in school, so it was not always in my record. During weekend days, we used to eat out for lunch, usually some foreign food restaurants.(happens no more after I study abroad)

my friend in our kitchen

     Dinner has been considered as the most important part of a day for our family to getting together and have some chat. My mom used to prepare food for about an hour and after my dad got back from work, the whole family would sit around the table enjoying the delicious Chinese food my mom cooked. Pork is the most common meat we buy and eat, red-sauced pork, boil pork and sausage cover by eggs, these are all favorite pork dishes in my family's dinner menu. Besides, we also consume beef, chicken and a few mutton (once two months). Vegetables and fruits occupy a big proportion of our diet too, my mom loves cooking all sorts of vegetables: fry, steam, braise, boil or make soup; there was no time in my memory our dinner was served without vegetables. Fruits are usually eaten after dinner as a dessert.
A week food (Spring Festival) consumption:
Friday:
Breakfast: porridge, rice cake & mustered tuber (homemade, about $3)
Lunch: Roast Duck, boiled chicken with sauces, sweet and sour pork, poached green peans, cold tofu, Chinese cabbage, tomato scrambled eggs, white rice (homemade, $15)
Dinner: Restaurant ($50)
Thursday:
Breakfast: Rice cake, bread ($4)
Lunch: Chow main, spring rolls, boiled chicken with sauces, tomato soup with ribs and potato, steamed crabs(homemade, $8)
Dinner: fried water spinach, beef steaks (take-out), rice, mapo tofu ($9)
Wednesday:
Breakfast: yogurt, bread ($4)
Lunch: Restaurant ($30)
Dinner: Restaurant($40)
Tuesday:
Breakfast: porridge, dumpling, flatbread, fried dough sticks ($4)
Lunch: Boil eggs with sausages, Chinese cabbage, rice, boil shrimps ($10)
Dinner: Rest from lunch. 
Monday:
Breakfast: Spring rolls, rice cake, rice dumpling (from store) ($8)
Lunch: no
Dinner: Restaurant ($200)--Spring Festival for 5 people

Boil eggs with sausages 

 

Breakfast: steam roll, boil rice cake 

Dinner before new year