Dinner

Andy Xu

As always, junior Andy Xu’s mother has on the same apron, brown with pink polka dots, holding the steel pot and the stir-fry spatula as she prepares dinner. Oftentimes it’s Chinese food, but she also makes a variety of other cuisines, like Mexican food. Xu’s favorite is the ribs.

Xu’s mother works in San Francisco, and for the past 12 years before the pandemic, she had to wake up very early and drive from Cupertino to San Francisco and back every day. Yet despite how busy she is, she always makes dinner for Xu and his brother.

“She’s very caring, very loving, and she always makes time to take care of me and my brother and my dad and my family, even though she’s so busy and she has so much work to do,” Xu said. “Her care for us really inspires me and I owe her a lot for what she’s done.”