Iron Chef

Cody and Vanessa just got back from being in China for 9 months or so. We got together last night at Kyle and Jennifer's for dinner and to hang out. It was so good to see Cody and Vanessa, God is doing amazing things in China and it was so cool to hear stories of how impacted the people over there were by having them and their team teach English and also build relationships and share Jesus with them.
The beginning of the evening started with making a run to East West, an oriental grocery store, to get ingredients to make some authentic cuisines! We had a variety of countries represented...Chinese, Japanese, Korean. It was great! To be completely honest, I was a little nervous to try some of this. Especially the use of the chopsticks. Yeah...not very good at that!
There was a moment in the kitchen where Cody and Kyle were cooking, and the intensity of it reminded me of the show Iron Chef!
Here are a few pictures of the evening...

Here are Kyle and Jennifer showing off their mad chopsticks skills!

Vanessa having some spicy kimshi

Cody looking cool

On the left are chicken and vegetable dumplings and on the right is a dish that Cody made with eggs, tomatoes and vinegar! It really was good Cody!

Kimishi which is pickled cabbage with tofu, very spicy

Here is a dumpling!

I had the hardest time getting the chopsticks down, but I finally picked up my dumpling...

and ate it!

After dinner (probably not a good idea) Cody did his infamous tripod!

The evening ended with us piling into the car and going to Coldstone! It's always nice to end the night with ice cream...right Cody?!

I'm glad you guys are back!!