“You could act less like a dazed peasant, you know,” Kitay said as Lan laid out a spread of quail, quail eggs, shark fin soup served in a turtle’s shell, and pig’s intestines before them. “It’s just food.” But “just food” was rice porridge. Maybe some vegetables. A piece of fish, pork, or chicken whenever they could get it.
Reveals the difference in mentality amongst social classes
