The first thing you would notice if you went out into the villages in China is that vegetables rather than meat predominate in the food offered Though we in the West think highly of roast beef or a thick steak, meat is a luxury to the Chinese and they prefer it in small quantities, usually pork rather than beef, and cut into small pieces and mixed with the vegetables

If one were to define toast, then it would be sliced bread which has been browned to a certain degree by exposure to dry heat Toasting obviously warms the bread, making it crisp so that it holds topping like butter and jam or marmalade, and as such is an integral part of a peculiarly English breakfast