Quarantine Diary Day 9: Big Bones, Little Meat
Back to work this Monday morning. The weather has been pretty dry so far in quarantine.
Breakfast had soy milk, 豆浆，not 豆奶, which is what we had been getting previously. They both translate to soy milk, but the former only has soybeans, water, and sugar, while the latter also has dairy cream in it. I was so happy for this change!
We also got sweet potato and the usual hard-boiled egg.
The not-so-great meat bun.
A nice latticed scallion bun.
The fruit of the day for lunch was a banana.
There was a decent piece of fairly boneless fish.
Shredded potato.
The highlight of lunch was a very good stir fry with tofu, pork, and crisp cabbage. Oh how I appreciate finally having vegetables that stay crisp! And it was spicy, to boot.
The dud of the meal was the chicken with pieces of taro. The bones in the chicken here were so big. Really little meat to eat.
For my post-lunch coffee, I also had some Trader Joe’s coffeehouse-themed chocolate-covered coffee beans, and the gummy penguins with liquid tummies.
Dinner came with a yogurt today.
Like lunch, there was a meat dish with huge pieces of bone and very little meat. I think this was cumin-seasoned pork, but it might have also been beef? I wasn’t sure what it was. In general, I feel like the cuts of meat coming out of this kitchen feel very cheap.
Leafy vegetable, kind of overcooked.
Also overcooked were these udon noodles which lost their bite. They came with those fish slices that have appeared a few times already; fish thinly sliced with black skin. This was in a kind of tomato-y sweetish sour broth.
There was also cauliflower dish with very processed ham and even a piece of pressed tofu, which looked like it had come from the lunch dish with cauliflower.
