However, there was a distinction between the big kitchen and the small kitchen here; the big kitchen cooked the workers' meals, which could be more casual.
The small kitchen that prepared the master's food was not the one in every master's courtyard, though there would also be an old woman in charge of those small kitchens.
It was the same in Tang Shunyan's courtyard. His family's three meals a day were usually eaten in his grandmother's courtyard, with the occasional midnight snack or afternoon tea at home if he was hungry and resting.
In the maid's section, five people could only share two sips of soup, yet those two sips left them quite satisfied.
The attendant student and maids who followed their master had never tasted such fine soup or delicious dishes before.
People were ranked into different classes; it wasn't that every time they went to a restaurant, the maids and attendants could have the chance to eat as well as their master.
