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mondrian
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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Location: "was that beautiful coastal city in the NE of China"
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Is a school lunch one of the "perks" of your job?
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BEIJING (AP) - Six children died of possible food poisoning at a boarding school in northern China, a news report said Wednesday.
The two boys and four girls, aged 6 to 10, fell ill Monday evening at the school in Nanyao, a village in Shanxi province, and died an hour later, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
It said police were investigating the case with the help of laboratory scientists.
The remaining five students at the 11-pupil institution were sent to a nearby school, Xinhua said.
A string of food poisoning incidents have been reported at schools in areas throughout China over the past three months. Hundreds of children have been sickened but most recovered quickly, and only two fatalities were reported before the deaths in Shanxi. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/0,,362455,00.html |
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georginachina
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| Breakfast, lunch and dinner at my school! Beer included with dinner. |
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Malsol
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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Location: Lanzhou
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| georginachina wrote: |
| Breakfast, lunch and dinner at my school! Beer included with dinner. |
Then you must be at Jilin Hua Qiao Foreign Language Institute |
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georginachina
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Malsol wrote: |
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| Breakfast, lunch and dinner at my school! Beer included with dinner. |
Then you must be at Jilin Hua Qiao Foreign Language Institute |
Why must I be? I've already told you where I am, and it's not Jilin! |
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Malsol
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jammish
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My old school in Wuhan also provided 3 meals a day.
Malsol, how the *beep* do you know that there is only one school in the whole of China that provides free meals? |
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Yu
Joined: 06 Mar 2003
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Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| I dont get free meals but I often eat on campus.... usually it is between 3 to 8 for lunch.... 8 is when I order some food because all of the food in the canteen looks disgusting. |
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TravellingAround
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| A good idea may be to just buy your vegetables from the canteen then take them back and cook for yourself. At one place I knew it was quite a bit cheaper than buying from the market. |
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vikdk
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| A good idea may be to just buy your vegetables from the canteen then take them back and cook for yourself. At one place I knew it was quite a bit cheaper than buying from the market. |
wowwwwwwwww man how much can you hope to save - expensive veggies in China are also dirt cheap!!!! I didn't think a lao wai could distinguish between cheap and expensive Chinese veg - to us the price is almost the same  |
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TravellingAround
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| Well...we're talking literally what could be 3 or 4RMB a day. So...we're getting into Bill Gates/Richard Branson/Donald Trump territory there, that kind of thing. |
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vikdk
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good on ya Travelling - it takes guts to come out with that kind of hard info - wish some other posters could follow your lead and back up their claims with real-life fact and figures  |
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Leon Purvis
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
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Location: Nowhere Near Beijing
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Meals are not included in my contract, but the food is so cheap that it didn't matter.
I ate at my current employer's campus regularly until the cafeteria staff bagan overcharging me. I moved from one window to another one which served while-you-wait wok-cooked meals. They overcharged me a few times, then they wouldn't take my order or they'd allow everyone in line behind me to order and pay before they'd take my order. After a dozen such occurrences, I gave them the fig and left.
I never went back. |
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vikdk
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| sorry leon - I know this overcharging thing is something to do with principle - but your post just begs the question - how much did they overcharge - was it more or less than the proverbial 3/4RMB a day- after all a meal in one of these joints usually only costs 3/4RMB |
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TravellingAround
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| Hmmm....you aren't one of life's savers are you vikdk? |
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ghost
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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Location: Saudi Arabia
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: school lunches |
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| after all a meal in one of these joints usually only costs 3/4RMB |
3/4 RMB....so that is about 40 to 50 cents U.S. for a meal?
Wow.....cheap!....but what about the quality.
When ghost ate at the school cafeteria in Taiwan, it usually paid about 50 taiwan dollars for a full meal (about $1.50 U.S.), and the quality was pretty decent.
What are comparable prices for a full meal at a 'workers' (office workers) restaurant in town?
ghost
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