Cheaper lunches on workers' menus

GUANGZHOU - Kang Shaozhe took out her plastic lunch box after 12 o'clock on Thursday. The young white-collar worker then had her lunch in her office after heating it in a microwave oven in the tearoom.

In addition to rice, Kang's lunch box included fish, an egg, water spinach and cucumber.

"The lunch was cooked by my mother in the morning," Kang told China Daily. "It was delicious, convenient and hygienic."