 The event in which participants cook and eat together has become a regular
one. It has become popular to the extent that applicants almost reached
the capacity, 50 people, two days just after RIFA began accepting. There
were also so many foreign participants such as Chinese, Taiwanese, Peruvians, and Brazilians in
the event that the kitchen of the community center was full of people,
and they cooked together merrily.
Harumaki of Vietnam, yakibi-fun and milk tea with tapioca of Taiwan, empanada
of Peru, and chirashizushi and osuimono of Japan were made this time.
 Most people seemed to know harumaki and yakibifun, but empanada. It's
like a bite-size meat pie. When you make the rim a cable design, it is
completed beautifully, so they competed to one another. After all, they
burst into laughter at the various shapes of empanada.
Ms. Toiêt Muôi, who came from Vietnam, has been studying Japanese
in RIFA's Japanese class and can hardly speak Japanese, but skillfully
taught how to make it. Ms. Kyoko Otsu from Taiwan has lived in Japan for so many years that she speaks Japanese fluently,
and also cooks as well. Peruvian Ms. Debora Taniguchi has a professional-like
cooking ability. Chirasizushi Ms. Midori Nomura made was exceedingly delicious.
Every food was as excellent as they cannot be said to be mere home-style
dishes.
 After cooking and eating, Mr. Manuel Kiyada sang songs Senyama Fujiyama and La Malagueña, with strumming the guitar. One of his grandsons Shinjiro changed clothes
to traditional Peruvian clothes and danced a dance for love, Marinera,
one of Peruvian ethnic dances. Shintaro enchanted t he audience by playing the theme song of Winter Sonata on the piano. A
Brazilian woman said that she likes the Korean drama, that there is no
such type of love in Brazil, and that that makes her sweet-tempered. In
Ritto City, a Peruvian boy played a Korean drama music, and a Brazilian woman was moved by the music. What a heart-warming story we had!
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