Chinese Corridor, the Chinese-language dorm space in Bates Hall, held several events last semester thanks to our wonderful Chinese TA, Yu-Chen (Jenny) Huang! Here’s a quick recap of some of the events that took place.
Chinese Kitchen (煮饭活动)
Students in Chinese Corridor gathered for the first time to cook together in preparation for the upcoming Moon Festival. The menu included dumplings, stir-fried vegetables and lamb, mushrooms and Chinese cabbage, braised pork, and–of course–moon cakes! As this was the first activity of the semester, all the students introduced themselves and had fun talking while eating a hearty meal.
The second Chinese Kitchen event featured Taiwanese spring rolls (春捲). So many fillings were available to make the rolls with! Later in the semester, the corridor also held another cooking event with fried rice, scallion pancakes, and more. Jenny also helped put on a cooking competition and movie night with yuanxiao (rice soup balls). Chinese Corridor later held an event with TCO (Taiwanese Cultural Organization) where everyone made rice balls together!
Chinese Corridor students happy and full after a day full of cooking and eating!
Students making Taiwanese spring rolls.
TCO members and Chinese Corridor students making rice balls together.
Breakfast at Bates
Jenny holds “Breakfast at Bates” every Thursday in Bates Dining Hall at 8:00am. She meets with students who want to practice Chinese (and offers to teach them some slang words, too). Students had a wonderful time eating breakfast with Jenny and practicing their language skills!
Jenny and students enjoying breakfast in Bates Dining Hall.
Chinese Majors Hotpot Night
Chinese majors gathered to cook hotpot together along with Jenny and one of our lovely Chinese professors, Professor Dai Chen! We hope that all the students had a good time eating together with Jenny and Professor Chen.
So many hotpot ingredients!
Professor Chen and Chinese majors having a hotpot party.
Thank you to Jenny for helping to put on all these amazing events last semester!
Stay tuned for more events happening this spring in the Chinese Department and Chinese Corridor! Be sure to also check out the Chinese Corridor’s website (made by Jenny herself!) for more photos and event descriptions.