Wednesday's lunch offerings for the Beijing delegation featured the relatively mundane egg drop soup, boiled corn, stir-fried bokchoy and sticky rice with pork.

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For breakfast Thursday, Guan ate a typical Chinese breakfast of potatoes with meat, rice and stir-fried eggs, showing no sign of nerves, his mother said.

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Two cooks sift and weigh the salvaged vegetables and whip up a selection of dishes - papaya soup, tomatoes and eggs, stir-fried cauliflower and cabbage.

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Stir-fried vegetables would be appropriate on a day when a swift meal was needed because children had to be picked up from an after-school club, for example.

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It seems that every street corner has at least one vendor, their charcoal grills and scorching woks hissing with stir-fried vegetables, charred meats, pungent spices and delicate sweets.

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Caines takes Devon's regional ingredients several steps further, adding his own world-food nuances: ravioli of Brixham crab with a ginger-and-shellfish sauce, slow-poached Cornish sea bass with Thai puree, stir-fried shiitake mushrooms and a lemongrass foam, slow-roasted Hatherleigh venison with braised pork belly.

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She made this one-dish meal of stir fried pork belly, shallots, mushrooms, garlic and shredded cabbage cooked with rice.

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