With a wry smile, Tsao explains that although these three ingredients are very cheap today, foods made from wheat flour or rice did not become common in military dependents 'villages until after 1953, because it was only then that their residents began to receive grain rations. If they wanted to eat rice or noodles they had to barter their valuables for them.
曹森苦笑著說，雖然這三種東西現在都不值錢，可是麵粉和米兩樣原料作成的吃食，還是民國四十二年以後才普遍起來的，因為在那之前眷村還沒有開始配糧，想吃米、面，還得用金銀去換。