Breakfast at the Cuis' includes fresh eggs from the family hens and hot mian tiao (noodles) with a little cooked spinach and MSG. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 89). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.