Culturally cool people

I live in a large University town and have worked at the University’s library for nearly 22 years. One of the really great things about this community is the large population of International students and professors.

Thanksgiving usually finds our town barren of all the usual residents as students and folks head home for the holidays, but the International students have no where to go. One Thanksgiving we were home for the weekend and planned just a family dinner, and then I invited one of the Korean students who worked with me at the library to join my family for his first Thanksgiving dinner.

It was great. He loved our traditional Thanksgiving favorites and even stood and clapped when the turkey came to the table. But the best thing was his surprise of bringing some of his Korean food to add to the meal. He made paper thin vegetable pancakes with an incredible ginger dipping sauce. While he ate 2 or 3 helpings of our food, we couldn’t stop eating his pancakes. They were really good. I know it meant a lot to him to be invited and he kept raving about the turkey because he’d never had it before but we kept raving about the pancakes. All and all, one of our best Thanksgivings ever.

I came across this website recently that has tons of fantastic Asian foods.

Check it out here