Friday, December 21, 2018

A Person I Admire


I admire a person named Quentin. His Chinese name is "GangDan" and he has a YouTube channel (Xinshidandan swears). He is not only alone when shooting, but also has two One partners, one is Romeo. The other is Ben. Quentin and Romeo are from France, Ben is from the United States, Quentin and Romeo speak three languages, French, English and Chinese. This is only English and Chinese. They often shoot videos together for their YouTube channel. They will shoot videos and the United States in France, China. The videos they took were very interesting because the videos they took were like some challenges.


One of the challenges I really like is that they are Quentin and Ben of Los Angeles. They don't have a big TV to watch the NBA Finals, so they have a very crazy challenge, which means they will find someone in Los Angeles to enter the family to watch the NBA Finals. They pressed a lot of people's doorbells, they didn't go very well, because no one could let them enter their home to see the NBA Finals, and those people didn't understand them. When they missed an hour of competition, they made a new idea, bought a pizza, and asked people they didn't know to watch the finals together. They found an old man who became a Piston player when he was young. Although the old man can't guarantee that they can watch the NBA final together, because the old man has a guest at home, but the old man told them that there are two college students next door, so they go to the house next door, they ring the doorbell, a young man and a man's dog. Opening the door, they began asking men to watch the finals together. At first, the man hesitated, but they told the men that they had pizza, the man asked what kind of pizza they were, they held pizza in their hands to the young, and the young people quickly agreed. When they saw the NBA Finals, they entered the fourth quarter of the final. They saw the final. The winner of the final is the Warriors. Ben and the man are very happy because Ben and the man are fans of the Warriors. Then they began asking men to watch the NBA Finals together. At first, the man hesitated, but they told the men that they had pizza, the man asked what kind of pizza they were, they held pizza in their hands to the young, and the young people quickly agreed. When they saw the NBA Finals, they entered the fourth quarter of the final. They saw the final. The winner of the final is the Warriors. Ben and the man are very happy because Ben and the man are fans of the Warriors. Then they began asking men to watch the NBA Finals together. At first, the man hesitated, but they told the men that they had pizza, the man asked what kind of pizza they were, they held pizza in their hands to the young, and the young people quickly agreed. When they saw the NBA Finals, they entered the fourth quarter of the final. They saw the final. The winner of the final is the Warriors. Ben and the man are very happy because Ben and the man are fans of the Warriors. They saw the final. The winner of the final is the Warriors. Ben and the man are very happy because Ben and the man are fans of the Warriors. They saw the final. The winner of the final is the Warriors. Ben and the man are very happy because Ben and the man are fans of the Warriors.

I have to say that if they buy pizza earlier, they are really lucky. I really like the YouTube challenge because it's really crazy and they have been successful.

Friday, December 14, 2018

My Favorite Festival:Dragon Boat Festival (端午节)

Many Asian countries will go through the Dragon Boat Festival, but the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival from China. Every Chinese knows the Dragon Boat Festival because in China, there will be a holiday during the Dragon Boat Festival, but after each holiday we will hold a big exam, which is the most feared thing for every student. I always like the Dragon Boat Festival because I can draw a dragon boat in the Dragon Boat Festival. It is an adult sport, but children can also participate. I really like to row dragon boats, but I have participated in this sport three times. The legend of the Dragon Boat Festival is: A long time ago, there was a poet in Chu State of China. His name was Qu Yuan. For some reason, he committed suicide by holding a stone and jumping into the river. So people didn’t want the fish and shrimp in the river to eat the body of Qu Yuan. They threw the glutinous rice into the river and let the fish and shrimp eat glutinous rice. This has evolved into a present in China. Scorpion. Therefore, people in China will eat dumplings and dragon boats when they have had the Dragon Boat Festival.

I live in a city in China: Fuzhou. There are different dragon boats in every place in China. I live in Fuzhou, so I will see the traditional dragon boat of Fuzhou. The traditional dragon boat in Fuzhou is very beautiful. Fuzhou people will draw some nice patterns on the dragon boat, they will also make a dragon boat head, which is at the forefront of the dragon boat. It looks like a dragon's head. After people hand-carved it, it is painted with beautiful colors. The Fuzhou dragon boat is made of wood, including the head of the dragon boat, which will make the dragon boat move faster. There are usually 40 people on Fuzhou Dragon Boat, there are 36 people who paddle (powering the dragon boat), a helmsman (to the direction of the dragon boat), a person sitting in the dragon boat head (if the dragon boat is in the game) In the win, the person sitting in the head of the dragon boat will have good luck. There is also a drummer (the person who beats the drums) who thinks that the pickpocket (the person who beats the squat), the drummer and the pickpocket are the people who command the oars and the helmsman. In my hometown, people will carry the dragon boat into the river for training one month before the Dragon Boat Festival. It is really cool because you can see many dragon boats moving in the river. My father told me that when he was a child. At that time, he could see about 100 dragon boats moving in the river. When I was seven years old, my dad taught me how to be a good oarsman, but after that, I rarely drew a dragon boat, because I almost drowned in the river when I was eight, it was very scary. Although I am not dead. In Fuzhou, we have a dragon boat club. After they train every day, they will have a party and lunch. I go every year because the food there is really delicious, but I didn’t eat it this year because I am in The United States.

The scorpion is a Chinese cuisine. The inside of the scorpion is glutinous rice, with one or two layers of leaves on the outside, and a long line. I really like the "salty scorpion", because "salty scorpion" has glutinous rice and some ingredients like meat, mushrooms, like fried rice. To make the tweezers, you need to make a cone with the leaves and then put all the ingredients in the inside, then put the leaves in the empty place, and finally tie the leaves filled with the ingredients with the thread, the tweezers are formed, and then the tweezers are placed. Next, you add water to the pot and cook it. You can also steam it and you can eat it. You can also put the scorpion in the refrigerator and store it in the refrigerator. When you want to eat the scorpion, you can take it out of the refrigerator and cook it. When you eat the dumplings, you must first remove the leaves outside. You can choose the dips. I often use soy sauce to make my dips. You can also use white sugar. It is really delicious.


If you want to see a dragon boat and draw a dragon boat, you should go to a dragon boat team. In the United States, I only know that there is a Fuzhou dragon boat in Queens, New York City, where young people from Fuzhou are doing the sport. The scorpion is hard to find in the United States unless you find a Chinese family, I don't know where to buy the scorpion in that store, I think it can be bought at the Asian Food Market in Albany. If you want to have a Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, you must eat a Zongzi and watch a dragon boat race or participate in a dragon boat race.

This is a link to a video of a clip of the 2016 Fuzhou Traditional Dragon Boat Race.(If you don't understand Chinese, you can just watch it.)

Friday, December 7, 2018

My Favorite Food Fish Ball (鱼丸)

Fish balls are a traditional dish of Fuzhou. Every Fuzhou person eats fish balls. Fish balls can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This is a delicious food. There are many types of fish balls. There are different fish balls in all parts of China. They can make fish balls in China using different kinds of fish or different ingredients. But I prefer Fuzhou fish balls because when I was a very small child, I started to eat Fuzhou fish balls. Another legend of Fuzhou Fish Ball: In Fuzhou, a long time ago, a businessman and a fishing boat went out to sea. They met a typhoon in the sea, their boat hit the reef, their boat ran aground, and they could only eat fish every day. Merchants feel that eating fish every day is very boring, so the chef on the boat cleans the squid. The captain's wife mashes the fish, applies sweet potato powder, and then squeezes the fish sauce of sweet potato powder into meatballs. Then she cooks them in water and finally they eat.



Making Fuzhou fish balls is not a simple matter, because Fuzhou fish balls are made with fish sauce, but making the fish sauce is a difficult thing, but the fish is only part of Fuzhou fish balls. The first step in making a fish paste is to clean the fish and the fish skin on the surface. The second step in making the fish paste is to use a knife to gently scrape the fish until only the fish bones are left and removed. Then take the shaved fish and mash it and the fish paste is finished. The other part is the filling inside. The filling of Fuzhou fish balls is inside. It is relatively simple to make the filling. The filling of Fuzhou fish balls is made by mixing pork with chopped green onion and some seasonings, then steaming. The steamed meat is made into a sphere with a scoop, which is the filling of Fuzhou fish balls. The final step in making Fuzhou fish balls is to put the meatball in one hand, the other hand to hold the fish paste, then throw the meatball into the fish paste. Then squeeze the fish paste into a ball and finally cook it in water. Fuzhou fish balls have been formed. The prepared Fuzhou fish balls are very bouncy. You can catch the Fuzhou fish balls in your hands and throw them on the table. It will bounce like a ball. Fuzhou fish balls are rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, iron, and multivitamins. Fuzhou fish balls can be used to make soup and stir-fry. But Fuzhou people will use it as a soup because Fuzhou people like soup very much. Seventy percent of the recipes in Fuzhou are soups. If Fuzhou fish balls are used for soup, Fuzhou people will join RouYan. It's a perfect match. The Fuzhou fish balls for making soup are very simple. Just add the cold water to the pot and add the Fuzhou fish balls. You can start cooking. When the water is boiling, you can join RouYan. If you like, then add some seasonings to the bowl. Put the Fuzhou fish balls in a bowl and add a little soup to cook Fuzhou fish balls. You can start eating it.

If you want to eat Fuzhou fish balls, you can buy them at some Asian supermarkets or Chinese supermarkets. You can buy Fuzhou fish balls at Albany's Asian Food Market, but the package there is Lianjiang fish balls, but don't worry because Lianjiang is a county in Fuzhou. If you want to eat cooked Fuzhou fish balls, you should go to Chinatown in New York City. The name of the restaurant is YiZhangFishBall Inc. at 9 Eldridge Street in New York City, or you can eat at some restaurants opened in Fuzhou.