Rations
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Rations
Well, at first they’d, well they’d give us
a mess tin full of rice and corned beef and
stuff on that but it was all mixed in at first
because we did have some rations but it soon
changed after a short time in North Point Camp
after we learned how to cook the rice properly.
We had our own cooks cooking up rice but
they didn’t know how to cook it we found out later.
They kept putting water in it and
water in it and I remember the first meal that
we had at Sham Shui Po even,
there was just one line afterwards going to
the biffy because the rice was too
watery and the Hong Kong volunteers
taught our cooks how to cook the rice and
it was a heck of a lot better.
It was a lot drier and that although it was
still quite a run to the bathroom all the time.
We used to get a small scoop of rice for
breakfast and sometimes some green tea and
at lunch time you got a slice of bread and
some green tea or some vegetables and
every so often then at night time you’d
get another bowl of soup, another chunk of rice,
I’d say about a scoop full. It wasn’t too much,
it was in a soup bowl.
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