After work, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hanh (from Ninh Binh province) stops by a supermarket in Japan or a Vietnamese grocery store near her home to buy ingredients for the 18 meals her colleagues ordered. She carefully selects trays of fresh basa fish, with large, evenly sized pieces, and also buys Vietnamese pork sausage, radishes, carrots, and some other vegetables.
Upon arriving home, without even changing her clothes, Ms. Hanh went straight to the kitchen. The fish was put into a pot to stew, while the other ingredients were prepared and cooked one by one.
After 3-4 hours of busy work, 18 meals were prepared, which she divided into individual containers and neatly arranged in the refrigerator to take on the train to work the next morning.
"I've been cooking meals for this colleague for almost 5 years now," Ms. Hanh shared with a reporter from Dan Tri newspaper .
Ms. Hanh's meal in Japan costs 150,000 VND (Photo: Provided by the subject).
The 150,000 VND meal set is in high demand.
Ms. Hanh went to Japan to study in 2013, then got married and settled there. Currently, she works as the head of recruitment for a Vietnamese IT company based in Japan.