"Why are you just frying eggs like this? It's such a waste. If you stir-fry them with onions, you get a lot more." Fu Ying understood what Mom Fu meant. Four eggs fried into a single pancake would be gone in just a few chopsticks per person, but stir-frying them with vegetables like tomatoes and onions made the portion look bigger, ensuring everyone got a share.
It wasn't that Mom Fu was stingy with her family; practical living simply required mothers to be calculating and thrifty.
"I didn't see any onions around." Understanding was one thing, but an explanation was still necessary.
Chapter 28