Irin's Stories...: The International Cooking Festival -14 May 07

okay... here i continued with what happened on the exact day of the International Cooking Festival.

So after school on Monday (14 May 07), we went over to the Uni's library where the ICF was held.... Kind of surprise!! There were alot of people hanging around... There were about 8-9 booths each representing the different countries as I had mentioned in my earlier post.

We walked in trying to find our Finland booth.... Saw it right at the back of all the booth... All the Koreans were all at work... Joycelyn (cant rmbr her korean name) was dressed in the Finnish traditional clothes standing right in front of the booth collecting the coupon that the students had bought to exchange for the food we had. Another korean guy (the guy that lent his house out for us to do the experiment cooking, oppz... cant rmbr his name also) busy preparing the mashed potatoes........

We get into position and helped out with the shaping of mashed potatoes..... yah making it into balls..... and I helped to add on the meat balls.... Was totally amazed, they had moved the whole microwave from home to the booth!! hahaha.... so what we do is to place the ready dish into the microwave and heat it before serving it.

On the other side of the booth, another korean guy (ok i dun rmbr their NAME!! sorry....cos they dun have christian names ah difficult ah) making the blue berry milkshake.... And the leader, Lee Ho Jin (why can rmbr his name? Cos e 1st day when we met we were told to take down his mobile and name so can contact him if we have any enquiries) busy moving ard from booths to booths....

Everyone enjoyin... people frm other booths came over to check things out n also exchange the different foods... this is GREAt, i dun sense any competition at all... if back in Singapore, students are so competitive would only bother about selling more of their food... I guess this is how it shld work for such an event, to really share the culture and food....... perhaps they are not pressurize of the $$ cos its all sponsored... hehehe!! >_<

Its so funny cos we kind of "cheated" cos we used instant meatballs.... so when we ran out of meatballs, our leader was opening the packets of meatball below the table pouring it into the pot.... hahaa... guilty conscious so hiding away frm the public.

Amazingly our milkshakes were the top favourites.... People came over for more... HAHA milkshake made frm jam also nt bad ah.... The event were scheduled to end at 5.30pm however we finished selling our food at 4.30pm... haha yah half sold and half exchanging the food........ GREAT job done!!!!

This is a totally new experience for me and I felt that their students were all so participating! Back in Singapore, Temasek Poly used to have similar event but the responses werent as whelmin.... Students would be thinking if the food were edible... haha... bt true when I was at my own booth I also didnt dare to eat lor... bt after awhile heckcare ah... Jus eat!! hahaha....

Hahaha... another thing happened too, Joycelyn lost the coupons which were supposed to tabulate how many purchases... She was panicking and was like tellin the leader and another guy that she was so sorry to have lost it... Guess wat, all the guys said "Dun worry..../ Nevermind"

Both me and tiff was like wow so good, back in our mind we were thinking if its gonna happen in Singapore... Knw wat the majority of the sg guys would have said?? "Wa lau, ask u to do simple task also dunno hw to do ah... lost the ting..." or "then now how?!!"

Also noticed that Koreans are so messy.... the table was so messy... me and tiff had to keep clearin up the mess.... n gosh they jus throw the litter on the floor.......while we threw them into the trashball.... Guess its Singaporean's instinct to CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN.....or they dun sense anyting wrong wif a messy table while serving food!

Here are the pics of our food... I didnt have the time to take a pic of the milkshake cos its so popular once its made someone took it away.....