Because they wanted the fans, players, and their families to spend Christmas together in the evening, the Christmas Day games were mostly scheduled for the afternoon.
Gan Guoyang had been in America for many years, but he still couldn't get used to American food; to him, some of the dishes in American restaurants were barely suitable for humans, while even pigs back home got to eat better.
In San Francisco, he had gotten used to the dishes prepared by Gan Youwei. In Spokane, Stockton's mother was also a good cook. In Portland, Guoyang chose to cook for himself.
He would provide a list of groceries for the housekeeper to shop for at Portland's best supermarket twice a week. Guoyang had everything calculated—the variety and quantity of ingredients—and instructed her to wash, prepare, and organize everything neatly in the refrigerator.
Guoyang specially purchased an extra-large refrigerator, the kind big enough to fit a person, which he stuffed with various food materials.
