New Taipei eatery owners cater for students in needBy Weng Yu-huang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe owners of a Japanese-style izakaya food pub in New Taipei City’s Lujhou District (蘆洲) have through 2019 and last year prepared 300 lunchboxes per month for disadvantaged students, free of charge. Hsu Jui-hsi, left, and Hsu Pin-jui on Friday hold lunch boxes at their izakaya in New Taipei City’s Lujhou District. Photo: Weng Yu-huang, Taipei TimesThey hope that those who received the lunchboxes will prosper and one day also help others, they said. Until 2009, when Hsu Jui-hsi graduated from high school, they had not often been able to eat out, the brothers said. About 120 students at the school benefit from the project every month, Shen said.

Source: Taipei Times January 02, 2021 15:56 UTC