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An Exciting Expatriate Youth Camp

Date 2013-01-15 4759 Clicks

Each year, TKU helps organize study programs for Chinese students living overseas. Recently, it held the 2013 Winter Program for Expatriate Youth, which drew 80 students from various countries, including Brazil, Panama, Paraguay, New Zealand, Argentina, and Costa Rica, to name just a few.

The 2013 Winter Program took participants on a tour of traditional Taiwanese culture. The tour took two central themes: 1) traditional Taiwanese pineapple cakes and 2) Taiwanese-style wedding ceremonies and related customs.

Students learned about how pineapple cakes are made. They visited the Museum of Cake and Pastry (Taipei City), where they got their hands dirty mixing dough, preparing fillings, and molding their creations into the iconic block-shaped pastries known throughout Taiwan as pineapple cakes. One of the participants, Tseng Yun-zhen, from Panama, commented that “from a young age, I’ve loved eating pineapple cakes. The texture, color, smell; the way it melts in your mouth. It’s pure bliss! Through this experience, I’ve learned exactly what goes into making pineapple cakes. It’s been such a fun and educational trip”.

The Director of the TKU Center for Continuing Education, Dr. Chou Hsiang-Hua, explained that apart from learning about Traditional Taiwanese desserts and wedding customs, the participants also got to travel around Taiwan, and visit many scenic and cultural destinations. Starting out from Taipei, they travelled to Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Taitung, Hualien, and Yilan. Along the way, they visited a traditional arts and crafts center, a rural fishing village, and an aboriginal village, where they got to experience traditional aboriginal lifestyle.

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