The Cafeteria of UCLA

by Celina

 

I love food, so whether I like the school or not depends on the food it serves.  UCLA cafeteria looks neat and serves delicious food. Even though American food contains high calories, I can’t stop eating.

The first meal we had was when the day we first arrived at UCLA. It was almost seven o’clock in the evening. Our counselors told us to put our stuff in the lockers. Then, we used our room keys to access the cafeteria. The waitress at front desk is always friendly and cute. She says hi to every person all the time. This huge cafeteria amazed me. It’s clean and has a great variety of food. All kinds of people, such as summer sessions students, staff members, young kids, were lining up for food.

I took two slices of pizza and grabbed a glass of apple juice. The size of pizza was way larger than the kind that my school serves, and it tasted like Papa John’s pizza.

The following 3 weeks, I’ve tried food from each section of the cafeteria. UCLA’s salad and spaghetti taste fantastic. At salad bar, it provides all kinds of vegetables and sauces. In china, we usually have fried veggies instead of raw vegetables. There are always a lot of people waiting for spaghetti. Therefore, I’ve only tried it twice. In china, we also have a lot of western restaurants, which have spaghetti. But I think UCLA cafeteria has better spaghetti than those restaurants have. My favorite kind of spaghetti here is lasagna. It has layers of noodle, which are packed with tomato sauce. However, I feel so guilty when I finish the food, because it’s really fat.

 

 

Since I became heavier during the first two weeks, I don’t have dinner anymore in my last week here. So I always eat a lot for breakfast. I always grab a bowl of cereal and scrambled egg with bacon and potatoes every morning. I normally don’t eat cereal in China because Chinese milk tastes horrible. The milk here tastes fresh and smells good. In China, I always go out and have western breakfast with my friends at Element Fresh, which is a really popular western restaurant.  At UCLA, I feel like I have Element Fresh’s food every morning for free. I just love this cafeteria so much.

Even though I miss my hometown a lot, I don’t want to leave here, because the cafeteria has really good food. I will miss UCLA and the food here after I get back to China.