Saturday, April 5, 2008

Eating "Dumpling"

Since I came to Canada, I’ve had a lot of chances to try new things and get information about different countries and cultures. In last month, with eating “dumpling” I have become more aware of Chinese culture and their taste of food.

Eating Dumpling:
It was two weeks ago when my family and I went to Lethbridge to visit one of our friends for New Year. My friend had invited three Iranian families for dinner in Lethbridge for Nowruz celebration. She had planned to make four Iranian foods, so we tried to help her organize her plans. Their friend’s wife is Chinese, so I was really excited to see her and also her Chinese-Iranian kids. She made “dumpling” for other Iranian people. She said, “I want to compete with Iranian.”:D. At dinner time, she encouraged us to try “dumpling”; however, between all those Iranian foods with their familiar taste, I didn’t decide to try even one of those. As she understood that I had not eat her food, came and explain to me what is “dumpling. Therefore after her explanation, I had to eat and try. But my feeling after tasting it was totally different with before eating. It was delicious. I really liked that, and I tried some. Now I want to get its recipe to make it.

That was my good chance to eat “dumpling.”

3 comments:

jcq1111 said...

Wow! Chinese dumpling!!
I am so glad to know you like Chinese dumpling. I also love them and miss them, especially my mom's dumpling. I will learn how to make delicious dumpling when I go back home this summer. And then I can cook them by myself!

Ree said...

I think it is in the Halloween party, right?
heihei~~~
Actually, dumplings have a lot of differet kinds and each one has its own taste. I think that the first time you only eat something you do not like,maybe~~~
I am very glad you can like dumplings, good try!

Sumaya said...

Great! Though I'm not Chinese, I'm also very excited. Like you, I also prefer to try new food from new cultures. I tried Dumplings in our Pat lac in EAP 1 when one of our Chinese friends bought dumplings for us. You are right, they are really very delicious.