Households have plenty of food as they were prepared for the lunar Holiday, now cancelled. It would be like canceling Christmas holiday travel for us. So food shouldn’t be an issue initially.
Aren’t their homes rather small? Can’t be much room for prep foods.
I made a quick run into town to grab pet food. Found canned chili on sale 2 for 1 so got the 8 cans they had. Needed to get various bottles of Asian condiments and they only had two soy sauce, two sesame oil, two fish sauce and two sriracha sauces. The end. Nothing more. Weird but am thankful for that since it’s Venezu-Texas shopping here (thanks, HEB, not).