Guess what? INRIA canteen cooks Chinese food for today's lunch and they provide chopsticks! Not only that, the canteen is also decorated with Chinese lanterns. What a surprise!
The Chinese population in INRIA is quite small and I appreciate that they have this Chinese lunch during the Chinese New Year period. Today, one main vegetable dish is spring sprout, which is made from soya beans, which is also a good representative of Chinese vegetable dish. Spring sprout is the name I see in UK supermarket, Chinese call it Dou Ya, meaning bean sprout.
Some time ago, someone: I stayed in China for one year and I missed cheese very much because you do not find cheese in supermarkets in China. How can you people live without cheese?!
Dana: I know exactly what you feel because I cannot find Tofu in supermarkets in Europe and it is also hard for me to believe that European people can live without Tofu!
While cheese represents the west, soya bean represents the east. Besides bean sprout and Tofu, there are hundreds of food made from soya beans just like there are many types of cheese.
So INRIA canteen chose a right vegetable today!
