Recipe

Braised fish

Material need to be prepared: Fishes , Chinese Cooking Wine , Soy Sauce, Old pumping, Ginger, Shallot, Salt, Oil , a bowl of hot water, Sugar 

Steps:

1. Wash the fish and cut both sides of the fish with a knife. 

2. Grout ginger in the cuts and use the cooking wine pickle the whole fishes ten minutes. 

3. Put one spoon of soy sauce, one spoon of old pumping , a half spoon of sugar and a half spoon of salt into the bowl which filled with the hot water and stir into special sauce. 

4. Put the fishes in hot pan with medium heat and fry for three minutes on both sides of fishes. Then pick up the fish. 

5. Put the oil into the pan again, then put chopped shallot and ginger. Stir fry until it become fragrant. Then put fishes in the pan and also put the special sauce which has been prepared. 

6. Finally, cook the fish in a high heat for five to ten minutes. Then pick up the fish. 

Reflection

It’s really a special and enjoyable experience for me. We decided to host a dinner on Sunday evening at Alex’s apartment. Because her apartment has a dinning hall so we could cook together and also enjoy our foods together. Before the dinner, I went to Victoria Market with Alex and Francis to buy some foods for our dinner. It’s the first time for me to went to Victoria Market. There were so many people and the Market was full of vegetable traders barking. We bought some fresh vegetables , chicken wings and beef. The good’s prices were much cheaper than that in the supermarkets and we only cost about 20 dollars. After that, we went to Alex’s apartment and begin to prepare the foods. We washed the chicken wings and beef then sauced them with cooking wines , soy sauce and old pumping because it takes time. Soon afterward, Aurora arrived Monica and Aurora made some delicious desserts for us. After a break, we began to cook our dinner. Alex cooked the chicken wings firstly. It’s a really famous dish in China called Coke Chicken Wings. It used braised practice which is cooking something with cooking wine, soy sauce and old pumping. But finally, we should pour cola into the pot and boil the chicken wings for 7 to 10 minutes in order to thicken the sauce. This dish became the most popular one in our dinner. All of us cooked one dishes one by one. Then, the most enjoyable time came. Each dish was delicious and we chatted , laughed during the dinner time. We also talked about the differences between Southdown China and Northern China. For example, most famous dishes in Northern China are made by meet while the dishes in Southdown China are made by various kinds of food like seafood ,fruit. I also made some new friends and learned some new cooking skills through this activities. 

It is from Chinese and comes from the colonial era. At that time, many Americans recruited labourers in Shanghai to work in the western part of the US. 

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It is from the Chinese term 人参 (renshen), Ren means ‘person’ and shen means ‘plant root’, this refers to the root’s characteristic forked shape, which resembles the legs of a person. 

3. Education 

It is derived from the Latin ēducātiō ,from ēducō ("I educate, I train") which is related to the homonym ēdūcō ("I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect") from ē- ("from, out of") and dūcō ("I lead, I conduct"). (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education )

4. Gung-ho --- wholeheartedly enthusiastic and loyal, eager, zealous. 

It is from the Chinese term 工业合作社(Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society),  which means work together as a unit.  

5. Kung fu --- a Chinese system of fighting without weapons, similar to karate. 

It is from the Chinese term 功夫(gongfu).    功 (gōng) means "work", "achievement", and 夫 (fū) which is alternately treated as being a word for "man" or as a particle or nominal suffix with diverse meanings. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_fu_(term) )

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It comes from Japanese , borrowed from the original Chinese equivalent (豆腐 dòufu , literally "bean" (豆) + "curdled" or "fermented" (腐). A reference to the word "towfu" exists in a letter dated 1770 from the English merchant James Flint to American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin. This is believed to be the first documented usage of the word in English.