Author Archives: HELEN CHEN

The podcast I was listening to was Rice Rice Baby, this podcast was about the importance of rice and the history behind rice. The main takeaway would be how rice influenced societies from ancient times to now. They were also talking about how rice was the center of Japanese and Chinese culture and how many dishes were made of rice. I would recommend this podcast to my classmates who want in-depth knowledge about rice. One question I would ask is how people cook rice in the ancient time.

One of the memories that I cherish a lot is that I wasn’t a person that would love to eat breakfast so when I was in middle school there wasn’t a day that I ate a meal in the breakfast. Still, my dad always didn’t like how I didn’t so when he had time in the morning he would make me mantou( Chinese milk bread) with steak and milk, that is one of ever memories that my dad made me meals, he mostly busy so I never really the food he makes, but the food he makes was delicious.

Hello my name is Helen Chen, I was born in New York Manhattan, I am first generation and currently a freshman at Baruch majoring in Accounting management. Even though I was born in America I was raised in China until I was 4 years old. China has delicious food, in my memories, the food that I always liked when I was a child was the dumplings. My auntie always brought me it when we went out to grab food but it has been a long since I ever tried again because I also haven’t been back to China for a while and many things have changed. Food is always what keeps me happy every time after classes or any stress I grab food with my friend which makes me happy the food I always get is popcorn chicken which has been one of my favorite foods for a while, but overeating could be unhealthy. I am picky, which always gives my family a headache, and sometimes my family there always certain dishes that I don’t like but as I grow older I start liking those foods that I didn’t like before. One of my hobbies is drawing, drawing always keeps my mind relieved and also keeps me away from stress. The picture below is the oil painting that I did in my art class, I joined art class because I wanted to do a Fashion major at first but I started learning drawing in my junior year which was a bit late, but then I felt even I do like drawing but fashion wasn’t a thing for me so I decided to change my major. In my art class I did oil painting which was one of my favorite lessons because it was a new thing for me and I always wanted to try it out, at first I was struggling but I liked the final that is what matters.