Cooking Class

On Monday nights for six weeks, I have the pleasure of going to the Li house for cooking class and dinner. Actually, its more dinner than cooking class, but we're learning a thing or two about how to fry a fish (see photo) and make dumplings with folds in all the right places. Grandma Li is hosting two Stanford students and me. She is all smiles and laughs and a joy to be around (see photo of Grandma Li in her kitchen). She speaks almost no English, but fortunately the two students, AJ and Jeff, help keep me in the loop. Every week, we sit down to an incredibly good dinner with Grandma Li and sometimes her grandson (see photo of Jeff, Grandma Li, AJ, and Grandma Li's grandson), her daughter and son-in-law. This has been one of the highlights of my stay in Beijing.