Starting at 11 am every day, a narrow alley in Nanchang City Jiangxi Province, is always full of people cooking in a shared kitchen with over 30 stoves. Al- though the" (chef)"there are not acquainted with each other they share one thing in common-the desire (bring) a taste of home-cooking to their cancer-stricken family members.
"The Anti-Cancer Kitchen", near a cancer hospital in Nanchang (set) up by a couple Wan Zuocheng and Xiong Gengxiang 17 years ago. It offers the relatives of cancer patients a space and tools for (cook) with 1 yuan per dish, which is (cheap)than the hospital or other takeaways.
Every day, the couple wakes up at 4 am to light coal stoves and usually ends their day at 10 pm. Throughout the day they always tidy the kitchen each time after a family finishes cooking to ensure a clean and (comfort place for next "customers". Eighteen hours of work per day sometimes causes fatigue(疲劳)that is more than they can bear. But even during the Chinese Spring Festival, the couple has never shut the kitchen for the past nearly two decades.
The kitchen sees thousands of dishes being cooked each year that are filled with stories of life and (die), hope and despair as well as joy and sorrow.
