De Eet en Geluk Club

On Saturday the 25th of February 2012, China op de Kaap organizes the Food and Happiness Club in het Gemaal op Zuid, during the exhibition Double Happiness. A continuous program about Chinese food with various performances and a cooking course with Chinese homecooks.

Double Happiness is a tribute to Chinese food, which calls up images, stories, aromas and flavors in the mind of the visitors. It wants to tell them that for a Chinese the way to home is, like the way to the heart, through the stomach. China op de Kaap wants to introduce the visitors to the rich and warm Chinese eating-culture through the one-day event the Food and Happiness Club. This event will be opened by a performance of the Boodschappentassenruil (the Swap of the Grocery Bag), by Ian Yang and Railyson Martina.

The Chinese kitchen does not only exist of Foe Yung Hai and Babi Pangang. At the Chinese Takeaway people can learn to cook authentic Chinese home dishes. Chinese homecooks will learn the participants their favorite dish. Each dish is also the starting point of an informal discussion around a set table with Aernout Bouwman-Sie (founder of filmfestival AsiaScope), Timo de Rijk (professor Design Cultures) en Boudie Rijksschroef (managing director of Inspraak Orgaan Chinezen). Visitors can draw up a chair and join the discussion about Chinese restaurants and about the role and the influence of Chinese food in the lives of the Chinese in the Netherlands and in the Dutch history.

During the whole day, visitors can put together their own dumplings or eggrolls at the table of Multi Snack. These creations will be steamed or fried on site and will be handed out to the visitors.

They can also; listen to the stories of the Chinese Moestuin (Chinese vegetable garden)  told by a walking Vegetable Garden-lady, collect and exchange  seeds for the vegetable garden, go back in time with the photo exhibition Afscheidsfoto’s (Photos of Farewell), enjoy fragments of the documentary Chinese Restaurants by the Canadian-Chinese filmmaker Cheuk Kwan and look in to the visual story Stromend Geluk: Aquarium Oriëntal (Flowing Happiness: Aquarium Oriëntal) by photographer Bjorn Staps.

The Food and Happiness Club is open for public on Saturday 25th of February from 14.00h until 17.00h. Entrance is free.
 For more information, please visit www.gemaalopzuid.nl or www.chinaopdekaap.nl.