When a family member calls, i would say hello? and would always be greeted with "have you eaten yet?" When i say "yes" it sounds as if ive fufilled their dreams by feeding myself. If i responded with "no" i would be barraged by questions along the lines of: " when are you going to eat?", "What are you going to eat?", " Will you go eat?"
i find it funny that we had that lesson in class today about how its joyful to eat rogether. I seems as though people are also happy when other people around them eat too.
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Cindy,
I'd read that this was the greeting in some chinese communities. Wow - really shows the importance of food.
Do you ask them too?
no i respond to the question and they move on to asking me hows school and wheres my mom. but my mom does. they start actually talking after they have said theyre "good, good so you ate"s or "what do you plan on eating"s
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