New Chinese Friends

One of the things that I like the most about teaching here at Vinh University is there are so many foreign students. I know that I have talked about the differnt things that I have done with the Thai students here but there are also students from China and Laos that study here. Since the Chinese students live in my dorm I see them all the time. So last weekend the invited Sandy and I to go to their room to make Chinese dumplings.

It was fun learning how to cook a chinese dish. First you have to make the dough. Then you have roll out the dough with an old glass bottles, which is the make shift student rolling pin.

Then you put a little bit of the filling in the little round circles of dough. The filling for this batch was cabage and pork. Then you fold the dough to seal in the filling so that it is a half circle.

Then the final step is to boil them in their rice cooker. They were so delicious!!! It was a lot of fun to spend time with the Chinese students. I was amazed at how different they were from my Vietnamese students and the Thai students. Even though the countries are in the same region on the globe each country has such a differnt culture. I mean it is like comparing a Candadian to an American. Haha. Not really Canadians and Americans arn't that differnent. I just love being reminded how creative our father is and how he made us all so unique!