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प्रश्न
What difficulty did she experience while eating Chinese food?
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उत्तर
Once Mary Kom and her teammates were given chopsticks to eat their food in China. Other friends, asked for spoons and managed. But Mary Kom ended up using both her hands to hold the chopsticks to pick up the food and push it into her mouth. She managed the complex work and satisfied her hunger.
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