Today was the first day of club meetings at JDF High School--now officially my favorite day of the week! JDF has a variety of clubs / electives for students to choose from including badminton, musical instruments, ping pong, basketball, photography, and cooking. If you know me, you probably could already guess that the clubs I will be frequenting the most are the cooking and instrument clubs. For the first elective day I decided to join in on the cooking club meeting. We made dumplings, or jiǎozi which is pronounced kind of like the word "yowza" with a j instead of a y, and at the end you have the sound "uh" like in "put" instead of "uh" like in "butt". This is definitely my favorite Chinese food so far. I love that you can totally customize them with whatever filling you like, and they're pretty healthy because they're boiled or steamed. So far, I like the ones that come with pork and cabbage best, but I've also tried egg and chive, and beef and chili, which were also delicious!
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| My first dumpling! I gave up on the fold they were trying to teach me, so just made up my own. It turned out weird when it was cooked. |
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| The kids mixing up the ingredients for the pork dumplings.. staple flavorings included ginger, green onion, and garlic! I was in heaven <3 |
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| Filling up a tray of freshly filled and folded jiaozi |
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| Students folding jiaozi. This part was difficult to get down! |
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| A couple of my senior 1 (freshman) students excited to get these jiaozi cookin'! |
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| nom nom nomnomnom |
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| happy campers |
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