Breakfasts of champions

A mother undertakes a mission to feed her son something different every morning and makes surprising discoveries along the way. Shi Yingying reports.

An old Chinese saying goes: "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper." Xiong Shouli has taken this to heart, and the 35-year-old's New Year's resolution has been to prepare something different for her 5-year-old son's breakfast every day of the year.

Friends told her she was copying the film Julie & Julia, in which young New Yorker Julie Powel tries to cook every recipe in celebrity chef Julia Child's cookbook within 365 days.