The COVID-19 outbreak, which reportedly originated from Wuhan, China, has been particularly tough on Chinese netizens. Most of them had to be quarantined at home, where even those who couldn’t boil an egg had to start figuring out their meal prep (food deliveries in particularly affected cities like Hubei are few and far between).
On Chinese social media platform Weibo, bored users started the trending hashtag #QuarantineDiaries as they document their lives at home on mandatory leave. Food photos dominated the posts, with netizens sharing home cooking tutorials and gushing about getting their hands on once commonly-available ingredients that became scarce during their city's lockdown.
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1/181/18Sweet potato ration -
2/182/18Hot dry noodles is a lifesaver -
3/183/18Hilarious cooking wins -
4/184/18Prepare 150g of plain flour and warm water (75g, half the weight of the flour) -
5/185/18Add your desired amount of refined white sugar to dry flour -
6/186/18Add half an egg yolk (or a whole yolk for 300g of flour) -
7/187/18Shape the dough into a ball -
8/188/18Break the proofed dough into smaller balls -
9/189/18Fold the dough into a mask -
10/1810/18Grill it over low heat in a pan -
11/1811/18Your ‘single-use’ mask is ready -
12/1812/18N95-grade buns -
13/1813/18What flavour mask do you want? -
14/1814/18There are other Weibo pancake creations too -
15/1815/18Eat more germs -
16/1816/18Bon appetit -
17/1817/18An apple a day keeps the doc away -
18/1818/18The safest mask in the world?