推广营运处推广教育中心、国际专修部、华语文中心共同举办一场别开生面的「异国料理文化交流」活动，让在地乐龄大学银发族长辈学员与来自越南即将升大学的青年学子，透过料理体验了解彼此文化，促进跨世代与跨国的交流。
Cooking across cultures brings Taiwanese and Vietnamese students together
The Extension Education Center, International Training Department, and Chinese Language Center of the Extension Operations Office at Hungkuang University jointly hosted a unique event titled “Exotic Cuisine Cultural Exchange.”
This special activity brought together senior university students in Taiwan and young Vietnamese students preparing to begin their university journey. Through hands-on cooking experiences, participants explored each other’s cultures while promoting both cross-generational and cross-national connections.
The event took place in the university’s Chinese cuisine classroom, led by Zeng Kaixiang, a teacher from the Department of Hospitality Management. In the morning session, he demonstrated three classic Taiwanese dishes: freshly painted scallops and cabbage, stewed chicken with aged preserved radish, and lotus leaf rice with cherry shrimp. The afternoon class focused on making Vietnamese home-cooked delicacies such as beef pho and Vietnamese spring rolls.
At the end of the course, students voted for light-hearted awards such as “Best Creativity,” “Best Plating,” and “Popular Flavor.” Many students shared that they not only learned new culinary techniques from both Taiwanese and Vietnamese cuisines, but also experienced a strong sense of accomplishment.
The Extension Education Centre of the Promotion and Operations Division said that using cooking as a medium not only enabled the participants to improve their practical skills, but also built a bridge across generations and countries. It certainly left unforgettable memories for everyone who participated.
