After rotating through their showers, thirty of them had finished just as Ye Nai called everyone to eat.
The stainless steel kitchen counter had temporarily been turned into a serving table, with steaming dishes arrayed upon it, all self-serve.
Each person then took a paper bowl, lined up to ladle out some tomato and egg soup first, and after finishing the soup, they served themselves vegetables—the purely vegetarian sour and spicy cabbage, garlic-smashed cucumbers, and triple-mixed vegetables disappeared the fastest. The initially made stir-fried chili meat had its chilis all taken, leaving behind half a bowl of meat, whereas the large pot of specially stewed meat was just symbolically picked at by each person.
You didn't need to ask to see how much they were lacking in vegetables.
After the meal, there were small tomatoes to eat as a fruit dessert.