Harvard TCS
Winter Food &
Cultural Festival

By Karen Chang '00

About twenty Wellesley students attended Harvard's food and cultral festival on Friday evening, February 16th, taking in the sights, sounds, and best of all, tastes of a Taiwanese night market. Quincy Hall was decorated with red Chinese lanterns, and all kinds of yummy foods, from chua-bing (shaved ice) to en-chang (sausages) to zhen-zhu nai-cha (pearl milk tea). While waiting in the long food line, I asked a Taiwanese mother (in Taiwanese!) if the dish I was looking at was tsai-tao gwe or o-a gwe (fried white radish cakes or taro cakes). She seemed please to respond (in Taiwanese!) that it was in fact, o-a gwe. Cultural activities littered the perimeter of the room, including origami paper-folding, Chinese calligraphy (the booth was manned by Caroline Tsai's dad!), and making wooden chopstick guns. It was exciting to see so much Wellesley representation at the event! The Harvard TCS co-presidents took a few minutes to welcome everyone and talk briefly about the 228 incident and its memorial. All in all, it was a great amount of fun spent with good friends at a good price ($5). Join us when we go again next year!

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