(2011.1.16) Chinese New Year Party.
Today is the first event sponsored by my work in awhile! We did this event for the first last time, but it's basically a giant cooking class where we get a ton of Chinese exchange students from the local university to help out. Last year there were a lot of students from Dalian - this year apparently they're from all over the place...Guangzhou, Xian, Beijing...well, I won't even try to pretend that I'm particularly knowledgeable about China, but talking with the students, they are very very unique.
Since most of my cooking events are usually the same, here's some photos just show a general idea of what today was like:
Cooking events are always pure mayhem at first, because each team always has people that don't know each other, so it takes a few minutes for everyone to adjust and figure out the kind of work they should be doing.
And it always helps to have a "professional" to keep on track! This lady is Shizuka-san, a Chinese lady who has lived in Kamogawa for over 15 years now. She married into a family of fisherman, and she helps them out by selling nikuman (which was what our main dish(?) was for today).
She made it look ridiculously easy...everyone else's nikuman were totally falling apart at the middle. さすがプロだわ〜。
It got pretty rowdy when it came time to eat our food! These two were dead serious about their rock-paper-scissors game because the winner got the prettier looking nikuman.
These events are always insane when you're in the middle of them, and the second they're over, you're like..."what just happened?" But everyone went home saying that they had fun, and they can't wait for the next event, so I suppose that's enough to say it was a success. Plus I got to eat super amazing nikuman for free!!
First work event of the year down, another one at the beginning of next month, and then probably another one in the works for March!
Since most of my cooking events are usually the same, here's some photos just show a general idea of what today was like:
Cooking events are always pure mayhem at first, because each team always has people that don't know each other, so it takes a few minutes for everyone to adjust and figure out the kind of work they should be doing.
And it always helps to have a "professional" to keep on track! This lady is Shizuka-san, a Chinese lady who has lived in Kamogawa for over 15 years now. She married into a family of fisherman, and she helps them out by selling nikuman (which was what our main dish(?) was for today).
She made it look ridiculously easy...everyone else's nikuman were totally falling apart at the middle. さすがプロだわ〜。
It got pretty rowdy when it came time to eat our food! These two were dead serious about their rock-paper-scissors game because the winner got the prettier looking nikuman.
These events are always insane when you're in the middle of them, and the second they're over, you're like..."what just happened?" But everyone went home saying that they had fun, and they can't wait for the next event, so I suppose that's enough to say it was a success. Plus I got to eat super amazing nikuman for free!!
First work event of the year down, another one at the beginning of next month, and then probably another one in the works for March!