To celebrate the Chinese New Year, students from the Mandarin Chinese classes held a dumpling-making party in the community room on Feb. 20th.
Eating dumplings, or Jiaozi, has been an essential part of the Chinese New Year feast since ancient times, especially in northern China. Dumplings symbolize wealth because they look like ancient silver and gold ingots. Although the dough and fillings had been prepared by the family of Mr. Lei Jia, their Chinese teacher, the students enjoyed rolling the dough into thin, round skins before wrapping and sealing the fillings inside. The dumplings were finally cooked in Mrs. Natalie Carlone’s kitchen and students were excited to eat the dumplings they made.
Special thanks go to Mrs. Natalie Carlone, for her generosity in providing the cooking utensils in her kitchen and the volunteers from the local Chinese community, Angela Chen, Haobo Qiu, Yanqing Yao, and Tony Ma, the Chinese directory of the Confucius Institute at CCSU, for their hands-on instructions.
Eating dumplings, or Jiaozi, has been an essential part of the Chinese New Year feast since ancient times, especially in northern China. Dumplings symbolize wealth because they look like ancient silver and gold ingots. Although the dough and fillings had been prepared by the family of Mr. Lei Jia, their Chinese teacher, the students enjoyed rolling the dough into thin, round skins before wrapping and sealing the fillings inside. The dumplings were finally cooked in Mrs. Natalie Carlone’s kitchen and students were excited to eat the dumplings they made.
Special thanks go to Mrs. Natalie Carlone, for her generosity in providing the cooking utensils in her kitchen and the volunteers from the local Chinese community, Angela Chen, Haobo Qiu, Yanqing Yao, and Tony Ma, the Chinese directory of the Confucius Institute at CCSU, for their hands-on instructions.