Though many of us in the West have only orange juice and cereal for breakfast, here is what Peichen had on a recent morning: 

                               

          Shredded pork (a dried product that had been cooked - song1), cucumbers pickled in a kind of soy sauce - jiang4), pickled turnips (da4 tou2 cai4), bean curd (a kind of tofu), peanuts and porridge made from rice