Other than ministry, the most frequent topic I was asked about this week after returning from East Asia revolved around food: "How was it?" The answer? AH-MAZING. Way better than the typical Americanized Chinese food. Meals are served on a table top lazy susan and shared family style. Some of my favorite dishes are shown here -- kung pao chicken, spicy green beans (with numbing spices that are illegal in the US!), garlic broccoli, duck, and sweet and sour pork. After church on Sunday, we went to a restaurant that serves Hot Pot (photos below). It was QUITE interesting! The chef wheeled in a cart of raw fish and cut it up before our eyes. We had other raw foods like spinach, tofu, cabbage, noodles and meats. We threw everything into the pot in the middle of the table, one side mild and one side HOT. The food cooks in the pots and then you dig it out with chopsticks (easier said than done).
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Last week I had the chance to return to East Asia, to the city where I led a summer mission trip in 2012. I had a BLAST walking the same streets and seeing the same places I did four years ago. I love visiting other countries because I get to experience how a culture is different from mine, and how a culture is the same as mine.
As I've traveled, I've realized that at their core, college students are similar all over the world- searching for hope and purpose, searching for a career path in which they can make a lot of money, or make a different in the world around them, looking for satisfaction in relationships and pursuit of dreams. |
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