UPDATE:  Our event was featured on WTVR (CBS) TV News in Richmond!

Today I hosted a dumpling-making class with the famous chef Peter Chang and his wife Lisa. To add to the excitement, the CEO of US CHINA Strong, John Holden, came all the way from Washington, DC to join us!

We talked about US CHINA Strong and its mission, about all the different community courses that are held at William and Mary’s Confucius Institute and then.. dumplings!

We made pork, shrimp and vegetable dumplings with three different kinds of dough, regular, orange (made with carrot) and green (made with spinach).

After Chef and Mrs. Chang taught us how to roll, fill and seal the dumplings, they were cooked for us and served along with an INCREDIBLE New Year lunch which included chicken bao, two kinds of noodle dishes, dry fried sausage, dry fried eggplant, tofu and lotus root (that was AMAZING!), and many more which I can’t remember now. 🙂

Everyone had a great time and enjoyed fantastic food. The class was so popular, the waiting list was four times the size of the class of 30 people!  We will be doing more in the future.

Thank you to Richmond’s CBS TV news anchor Rob Cardwell and his wife Debra, to my French teacher Jay Crowell and his wife Hilary, to Deb Gribben and her family, to Allan Sanders and especially to Deliang Wang from Confucius Institute at William and Mary and Qiang Fu, who runs the Peter Chang restaurant in Williamsburg for making the class so much fun and a big success!!