After missing his flight, Wu Jiayong unpacks a rice cooker and makes dinner in Hong Kong airport. [Photo from web]

Man makes dinner at HK airport

What would you do if you missed a flight and did not have enough money for a meal at the airport? A traveler from Shandong province found his own way of overcoming the difficulty.

The 47-year-old electrician Wu Jiayong was spotted squatting over a steaming rice cooker in Terminal 1 of Hong Kong International Airport, preparing his dinner beside one of the airport's 256 electrical outlets adjacent to a bakery on Sunday evening.

Wu had overslept and missed his flight back to Shandong's Jinan earlier that day.

Wu said that he had gone to work in Singapore, but was fired after just over a month and was now heading back home with only 200 yuan ($32) left on him - save for the rice cooker and a bag of rice he'd purchased in Singapore.

Wu, dubbed "Rice Cooker Brother", who rocketed to local stardom after just one afternoon in HK, said that he never ate a single good meal the whole time he was working in the Lion City, surviving on a diet of white rice and pickled vegetables so as to send more money back home to his family.

By 7 pm on Tuesday, Wu flew back home and reunited with his wife in Shandong's Laiwu with the help of media in HK, dzwww.com reported.

Wu Jiayong cooks rice at a Hong Kong airport. [Photo from web]

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