The story of The Food Street in NCU. 1st draft

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The story of The Food Street in NCU.




What is the most frequent-visited place for a college student in NCU? The library? The classroom? Certainly not. When all of the students move toward one direction and swarm into a four-meter width street during the lunch time, the answer will simply show up. Different from many other colleges, which are surrounded by bustling and prosperous shopping areas, there merely has a 100-meter-long street in NCU, which is called “The Food Street” or “Xiao-Ye Street”. It provides students with not only various food stands and restaurants, but all kinds of services, including copy stores, convenient stores, pool-rooms, and so on. For students in NCU, it’s a place where they can resort to after a bombardment of several hours’ stifling classes.


The Food Street has existed for more than thirty years. With the time, the Food Street has greatly thrived. At the first, there were only a few stores; however, it was springing up to over 40 stores nowadays. The growing of The Food Street not only shows its important role, but the changing attitude of eating for college students in NCU. Since the food in student restaurants are usually considered “choiceless, tasteless and invariable”, the street has become a central kitchen in NCU.



In addition to supplying students with daily needs, The Food Street functions as a platform which students can propagandize their activities. Even though students in NCU have long described them as “hermits on the hill”, The Food Street is like an arena which enables student to show their liveliness. Different clubs and activities would show up in a line in front of the gate of the street, in order to seize the chance when stream of people invade in. Some will speak out loud their slogans, and some will distribute their advertisements. In the lunch time, the street heartily spread out its maximum strength. “It’s like a lively and vigorous market. The Food Street offers students a place to show their energy and creativity. I especially love the atmosphere when groups of students strive for promoting their activities.” said Michael, a graduate who recalled the scene of the vivacity with a smile.


Comparing The Food Street with other colleges where have night markets around, students in NCU sometimes complain about the deficiency of it. Nevertheless, the emotions for The Food Street are complicated for students in NCU. Tina, a junior who was now exchanging to mainland China, expressed her miss after leaving NCU for over two months, “I used to get bored with the food there, but soon I realized that the street is the essence which represents the eating style of Taiwanese. You can have all kinds of local and exotic food there. And now, I am missing the food and the people in The Food Street.”



The Food Street becomes a flowing stream which is loaded with a great deal of memories. Thinking of The Food Street, lots of emotions and images will emerge from one’s mind. Without a doubt, the street will keep on creating and recording more and more stories for all of the students in NCU.