Hsinchu City Government is promoting “Evergreen Lohas Canteens” to enable the elderly to eat healthy food together. The Gangbei Community Development Association provides breakfast five days a week for 25 of the community’s elderly citizens. The masterly dishes cooked by the chef, a 72-year-old volunteer named Chen Su Ching-chi, have earned her the nickname “Ching-chi shih;” a nod to famous Taiwanese chef A-chi-shih. Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien has also lauded Chen as the community’s “magical masterchef.”
Every day bright and early, Chen heads to the market to buy fresh ingredients so that her community’s senior citizens are able to eat a piping hot, nutritious meal. Chen says that after becoming a volunteer, apart from improving her physical health and spiritual well-being, it has also given her life new meaning.
Lin says many elderly citizens don’t get to eat a proper lunch and have little interaction with others because their children are out at work during the daytime. According to Lin, through community residents dining together, this year four communities have already undertaken to provide communal dining for their elderly residents.
Photo: Tsai Chang-sheng, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者蔡彰盛
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY EDWARD JONES)
新竹市政府推動「長青樂活健康食堂」，讓老人家健康共餐。港北社區發展協會每週準備五日份早餐，提供給社區廿五名長輩，掌廚的七十二歲志工陳蘇靜枝燒得一手好菜，搏得「靜枝師」美名，市長林智堅推崇她是社區美食魔術師。
陳蘇靜枝為了讓社區長輩食用到熱騰騰又營養的餐食，每日清早到市場採買新鮮食材料理。她說，擔任志工後，除了提升身心靈健康，生活也變得更有意義。
林智堅說，不少長輩因子女外出上班，中餐在家隨便吃，無人互動，透過社區居民一同用膳，今年已有四個社區承辦老人共餐。
(自由時報記者蔡彰盛)
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