Breakfast was waiting for them at home. They had a big meal like this every morning. Grandpa took the boiled vegetables with the pungent chili sauce, leaving the stir-fried vegetables and fried fish almost entirely to Kati. Grandpa avoided fried foods of all kinds. he complained Grandma's back that eating her cooking was like eating everything coated in varnish, and that one day he would donate Grandma's pan and spatula to the army to melt down for a cannon for King and Country. If Grandma heard him, she'd make such a racket with her spatula and pan that it was a miracle they were still able to do their duty afterwards.