"Are you bored with what you cook? If the answer is yes, and if you like to have some homemade dishes this weekend, please come to my apartment. Let's cook together!."

This is taken from an announcement in a community in Pudong district in Shanghai, which has caught the attention of many. Five young people from the neighbourhood answered it, and they gathered at the apartment of the announcer last Saturday, throwing a banquet of five dishes.

Terry was the one who published the announcement. The six young people came to his apartment after shopping for groceries in the supermarket and started cooking.

Ray is from Sichuan province, and he cooked a "pockmarked grandma's beancurd", a very famous Sichuan dish. Fei from Liaoning Province dished out a large plate of fried meat to feed the six carnivores. Terry, as the host, had a pot of steaming hot radish and spareribs soup ready well before the gang of five arrived. CT stir-fried the stems of water spinach, and he claimed that was a uique dish from Anhui. Being a bad cook, Mu chose not to look on bu kept his hand full, helping the others with trivial kitchen chores. Dinner was ready in less than an hour to the satisfaction of each and everyone.

Ray, who often dined out with friends made on the Internet, said: "Cooking by yourself is much more interesting, and homemade dishes are always the most delicious."

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