School Lunches

My grandson wondered what Chinese students had for school lunches, so here is what I found out. Students may bring lunch from home, purchase lunch in the dining hall or go home for lunch if they are within walking distance. If they bring their lunches from home, common items include pot stickers, rice noodles with vegetables such as eggplant, lotus stems, broccoli, and carrots. They would usually have fresh fruit such as watermelon, dragon fruit, bananas, papaya. Common school lunches would include fired rice, or rice and a meat such as pork or duck, rice noodles, and fruit.