For breakfast, I made some Oatmeal for me and the family so they can try some western food. I tried making it close to how it is at home, with some salt, brown sugar (they didn’t have any sugar), raisins, and butter. I guess it was alright.
For lunch, we had some home cooked food. Both Lake and Lisa told me they don’t like to cook. Their parents never taught them how to cook either. Even though, they can make some good food. I observed the cooking process next to their 4.2kW gas range. First they chopped up some vegetables, took some ground pork out of the freezer, and heated the wok. Everyone uses Peanut Oil for cooking here because of the high smoke temperature. Some salt was added to the oil. Lake scrambled an egg with his chopsticks and dumped it into the oil and after 20 seconds, returned the egg to the bowl. Then came some of the vegetables, which were stir fried and then the egg was returned. Some MSG equivalent was added to the wok too. Everything was placed in a bowl. Then a second dish was made with some different vegetables and some pork, same stir-fry process. Then water was added to the same wok and noodles were boiled. Finally, we all got a bowl of noodles and we each moved food from the other dishes to the noodles, mixed, and ate.
Later in the day, I showed Lake and Lisa some of my photos in between all the soap operas they watch all day on TV.