China’s space station is serving a growing range of familiar meals to astronauts, with its onboard “space kitchen” offering nearly 200 food items, according to a Xinhua report carried by multiple outlets.
The report says the menu includes both traditional and home-style dishes such as dumplings, mooncakes, Kung Pao chicken, mapo tofu and fried rice. It frames Tiangong, or the “Heavenly Palace,” as becoming more like home as astronauts’ meals are adjusted to include comfort foods associated with life on Earth.
Across the sources provided, the emphasis is on the expansion of food options and examples of dishes, with no conflicting details. The outlets largely reproduce the same Xinhua write-up, describing the size of the menu and highlighting specific dishes now available in orbit.
