Cooking Rice Bowls With Shing Huihsin Steams Up Success

Caffeinated Cardinal employee Shing Huihsin taught a crowd of NIC students how to cook pork and rice bowls at the Student Wellness and Recreation Center on Thursday night.

Shing Huihsin and Jestine Lackner help each other prepare and serve the meal. Students on campus may be acquainted with Huihsin, as she can be found working at the Caffeinated Cardinal.

Huihsin showed the students the different ways to cook traditional pork and rice bowls and the ingredients involved. After cooking, she served the 10 attending students the meal she had prepared. She also served the SWRC staff who were working the night shift and were unable to make dinner for themselves. 

The bowls included plain white rice from a rice cooker, fried vegetables, fried mushrooms, marinated eggs and traditionally seasoned pork. Although plain white rice was used in the demonstration, Huihsin recommended using Gen Ji Mei rice instead, or if the rice couldn’t be found, she recommended using a one-to-one ratio of white rice to water to prevent the rice from becoming mushy.

Veda Sowder and Dylan Combs eat the pork and rice bowls prepared by Huihsin. They signed up for this event on Cardinal Life, a site exclusive to NIC students for them to browse and RSVP for upcoming events around campus.

Students who RSVPed on Cardinal Life expressed their enjoyment of Huihsin’s cooking. “It’s like biting into Asian culture. Like a dish with the depth of it,” said Jestine Lackner, an NIC student and an ASNIC senator. “It’s amazing is what I’m trying to say.”