Food - our common language

My host mum and host dad love making puddings with us, these are some of our masterpiece!

1) Dundee cake
My host mum is a scottish. She said Dundee cake is very common gift for special occasions in Scotland. Therefore, she taught me to make this cake and asked me to bring it back home as a Christmas gift for my family! In this Dundee cake, there'a a lot of spices, raisins and currents. They're all my favorite!

My Dundee cake!! I made it!

It smells very very nice!!!

 2) Chocolate cupcakes

My host dad is a CHOCOHOLIC, he loves every chocolate product. And he taught me how to make these lovely chocolate cupcakes.

Chocolate cupcakes!

Yummy! with Vanilla ice-cream !

I really enjoy baking with my host family because I don't have a big oven home and I seldom bake in Hong Kong. I think baking is a very good activity between parents and children. In Hong Kong, most parents are so busy that they even don't have time to cook. That's why it is impossible for a family to bake few times a week, like what we do here in York. I really treasure the time being with my host family, so I spent most weekends shopping and baking with them. I think FOOD is a common language around the world. All people (at least both UK & HK people) enjoy cooking and eating together!

We also talked about the very strange food in China. Some Western people may find it awful, but that's what Chinese sometimes eat. For example, the ox's penis, the frog's ovaries, the pig's blood, the cow's intestines, etc. Of course not every Chinese accept these food (for me, I don't dare to eat some of them), but we still have a tradition to eat these food for good health.

Also, I discovered a new dessert- RHUBARB yoghurt!
I've never seen rhubarb in my life before I came here. I just found it funny to look like a crab stick. And now I  just can't help falling in love with this lovely dessert! I love the special sweet and sour taste of it and it has become my new indulgence now. I hope I can still find the rhubarb product in Hong Kong, if not, I'll ask my host to post me some!