In early December, a brigade stationed in the Tibet Military Area Command worked out a special recipe for new recruits. Currently the recipe is used in grassroots and all the soldiers say that the food is delicious.

　　It snowed heavily in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, however, the atmosphere in the communication company of the brigade was quite warm. Tasting of buffet prepared according to the special recipe for new recruits was on. Xiao Zhao, a soldier from Sichuan Province, helped himself with hot spicy boiled tender pork continuously. While Xiao Li from Guangdong Province took a plate of soft-boiled chicken pleasantly. Liu Bing, a NCO from Liaoning Province ate steaming hot stewed pork and vermicelli… Fu Anfeng, the leader of the logistics department of the brigade said: "Favorite food for soldiers will remain, while unfavorable food will be changed, provided the rational nutritional structure of the recipe is ensured. We just have one purpose: food problem of the new recruits would not be allowed to affect their trainings".

　　The climate in the region where the brigade stationed is bad and the traffic condition is not convenient. In previous years, due to the insufficient supply of fresh meat and vegetable, officers and men in the brigade were affected by under-nutrition. In order to change this situation, the Party committee of the brigade had been paying great attention to the "vegetable basket" since 2001 and established a greenhouse, which could grow 37 kinds of vegetable and raise 10 kinds of livestock. Besides, the brigade also solved the problem of insufficient supply of fresh meat and vegetable in winter by out-of-season cultivation and soil-less cultivation. At the same time, cook of the brigade were selected and send to attend training in inland cities. This year, each cook in the new recruit company of the brigade had got the national certification of second-class cook. Recently, nutritionists have been invited to establish special buffet recipe for new recruits based on the trainings and climate.

　　Wang Ming, a cook of the brigade, said that 50 main courses and many local delicacies had been used to constitute 30 recipes, in line with the cold climate of Tibet and large physical consumption in training. These recipes, with balanced nutritional structure, beautiful color, sweet smell and delicious taste, could be used for a whole month and could satisfied different tastes and nutritional needs of the new recruits from various areas.

　　By Song Zhaohua

　　(December 18, PLA Daily)