iron chef

this is pretty late, but hey i still remember that day pretty vividly haha. so near the beginning of the semester irene introduced a pretty sick activity called the iron chef. i'm sure many know the show, i use to watch it all the time. we basically recreated the show by having each team come up with a asian american inspired dish which is taking an american cuisine and infusing it with the tastes of the culture we chose. our team thought we were pretty sick coming up with a continental breakfast with a mix of chinese foods, but it happens that irene's example was a previous class who attempted the same dish. but it's okay, i thought our dish turned out quite good though. it had a fried rice hashbrown, egg and ginger omlette, chinese sausages, tofu mixed with sausages, and bombass slices of pork. although i did not help cook the actual dish, we all done our part by researching the background on each of the foods. so of course in iron chef your competing with another chef so we went against the justsosick girls who created a vietnamese sandwich. although both groups did well, our group won. our first and only victory, but it was fun. i thought this activity was hella clever and you learn a lot from it. it touches on the idea of what is asian american, gain history behind the foods, experience the different tastes, and learn to work as a team. it's activities and lessons like these that makes students want to actually come to class. and irene is very good at that, haha i sound like a fucking suck up whatev.

--ria.