Ifeast!

Everyone who cooked for iFeast! (I am in the blue kimono on the left. My Japanese friend Mayumi had a spare for me to wear while serving food!)

Last night (Sunday May 6th) we had and international feast. People from our international house got the chance to form groups and make up to 3 dishes for their country! Since there are about 30 Americans living at iHouse, I decided to help the Japanese team. We made red bean mochi, sushi and okonomiyaki. Red Bean mochi is a dessert made with red beans and sugar inside of a cookie dough and rolled in coconut. Okonomiyaki looks like a pancake or pizza that is made out of seafood and cabbage and topped with special okonomiyaki sauce. The dishes were not too difficult to make, but sharing a kitchen with about 20 teams and serving for 200 people was no easy task. We spent about 3 hours cooking on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday before the big feast. It was delicious! Some of my favorite dishes were:

-chocolate balls from France

-mango smoothie from Sri Lanka

-goat from Kenya

-Kangaroo stew and lamingtons from Australia

-Pad Thia from Thailand

-noodle stir fry from Korea

-apple danish from Austria

There were so many more good one! United States made macaroni and cheese, apple pie, puppy chow and buffalo chicken dip which were all delicious as well! It was an awesome night and one of my favorite experiences at Ihouse!

We had some help for the China and Indonesia team with the sushi rolling

Serving okonomiyaki at iFeast

Red Bean Mochi