{"id":406,"date":"2007-11-26T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=406"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:25:25","slug":"campus-organization-teaches-about-chinese-food-culture-in-debut-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/campus-organization-teaches-about-chinese-food-culture-in-debut-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Organization Teaches About Chinese Food, Culture in Debut Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOXFORD, Miss. \u00ad Curious dinner guests venturing into Lenoir
\nHall on a recent evening were greeted by the aroma of
\nfreshly prepared, authentic Chinese cuisine. With not one
\negg roll or bowl of fried rice in sight, the appetites of
\ndiners were satisfied with an atypical, three-course
\nChinese meal.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n“China Table” was the first ethnic dinner hosted by Cook!
\nEat! Share!, a new multicultural organization founded to
\nfamiliarize the community with other cultures through
\nfood.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nUnder the direction of member Yang Liu, a pharmacology
\npostdoctoral research associate, group members prepared
\nvermicelli and seaweed salad, more than 250 Chinese
\ndumplings, Chinese barbecue ribs and green bean soup.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“I wanted to show people homemade (Chinese) food,” Liu
\nsaid. “America has a lot of Chinese fast food, but that’s
\nnot the way food actually tastes in China.”
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nDaphne Ingene, counselor at the University Counseling
\nCenter and coordinator of Cook! Eat! Share!, said the
\ndinner’s success was a true collaborative effort.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“I am proud of the Cook! Eat! Share! members,” she said.
\n“They crossed over culture differences to cook Chinese food
\nand share the Chinese culture and traditions together.”
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring the meal, Ingene and member Stephanie Sheng led a
\npresentation on the origins of several popular Chinese
\nfoods, and member Sheng Bi demonstrated how to cook Chinese
\ndumplings, or jiaozi.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAlso known as potstickers in America, the dumplings are
\npan-seared, half-moon shaped pieces of dough stuffed with
\nground meat and vegetable filling. The dumplings were
\nserved with a soy-vinegar dipping sauce that is prepared
\nwith garlic, ginger and sesame oil. Bi, a doctoral student
\nin education, is a native of Shan Xi in northern China who
\nhas lived in Oxford for more than three years.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“We spent a lot of time researching for the menu because
\nthe culture behind the food is the message we wanted to
\nconvey,” Bi said.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAlthough Chinese culture has evolved because more people
\nprefer to buy food than cook, the making of dumplings on
\nthe eve of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is
\nstill a popular custom, she said.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nSince the preparation of dumplings can be time-consuming
\nand difficult, families traditionally come together and
\nmake large quantities for the holiday, she said. The
\nChinese New Year is celebrated on the first day of the
\nlunar calendar, usually corresponding to a date in late
\nJanuary or early February on Western calendars.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nA popular part of the main course was Chinese ribs. Unlike
\nAmerican ribs coated with barbecue sauce, Chinese ribs are
\nslowly grilled for an hour, then grilled 30 minutes more
\nwhile being brushed with a soy-vinegar sauce every two to
\nfive minutes, Bi said. Dinner guests Charlie and Althea
\nChurch of Oxford named the cold mix of vermicelli and
\nseaweed served as an appetizer as their favorite dish.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“I’ve never had anything like that before,” Althea Church
\nsaid. “It was so delicious.” Her husband, a senior research
\nscientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics,
\nsaid he enjoyed learning about the origins of foods in
\ndifferent regions of China.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe meal concluded with a cup of traditional green bean
\nsoup served as dessert. Green beans contain a great deal of
\nying, which means “sunlight” or “good,” Ingene said. “It’s
\na good soup to regain balance in their emotions,” she
\nsaid.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nCook! Eat! Share! is supported by the University Counseling
\nCenter, International Programs Office and Department of
\nFamily and Consumer Sciences. For more information about
\nfuture events, contact Ingene at dingene@olemiss.edu or
\n662-915-3784.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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