Wellington Chinese Sports Club - Joong Recipe

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Wellington Chinese Sports - 2004 newsletter - makes interesting reading for Wellingtonians.

Yung Jung Association of NZ Inc & Wellington Chinese Sports & Cultural Centre Inc ‘Joong making demonstration 27 June 2004

May Young’s Joong recipe

Rice mixture:2 kg glutinous rice (lor mai)Wash and then soak rice covered in 2 inches of cold water for at least 2 hours. Drain well, and then add -5 tea sthingys salt, 3 tea sthingys chicken stock powder (use the Hong Kong made brand - less salty)4 tablesthingys oil. Mix well Bean mixture:1 kg mung beans or split peas Wash beans well and then soak for 2 hours. Drain well and then add tea sthingys salt 5 tea sthingy sugar; 4 tea sthingys oil pepper 3 table sthingys whisky (any)Bamboo leaves available from Davis Trading in 450 gm pkts. Ball of string also required for tying. Soak bamboo leaves 2 days before day of use in water with 3 teasthingys of salt and 2 teasthingys of lye water (or use another 3 tea sthingys of salt)
Fast boil leaves for 15 -20 minutes. Wash thoroughly in water with a little detergent (leaves can be very dirty!), rinse well and drain ready to use.(Soak as long as possible before draining to use, as the wet leaves remain more pliable/flexible)Meat mixture -1 kg Belly Pork Wash and cut into 2 by 1 wide strips Marinade oz sugar, 3 teasthingys salt, 3 tea sthingys oyster sauce, 3 table sthingys whisky, 2 tea sthingys five spice powder.
Mix these ingredients together, add to the meat, thoroughly mix, and let meat marinate in the fridge for 2 -3 days.
Wrapping and Cooking ‘joongs? Depending on the size of leaves, the weight of each ‘joong is about 8 to 11 ozs. Bigger/heavier joongs will take longer to cook. Place wrapped joongs into water, bring to boil. Cook on fast boil for 1 hour, then adjust to medium boil for another hour. Keep water at least 3?above the joongs. Then change the joongs at the top of the pot with the jongs at the bottom of the pot to ensure the joongs are cooked evenly. Continue cooking for another 2 hours. Total cooking time is about 5 to 6 hours.Take the joongs out of the water and leave to dry. Don’t leave the joongs in the water to soak! This mixture makes approx 20 -25 joongs depending on the size.


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Wellington Chinese Sports & Cultural Centre Inc 25th Anniversary follow up Newsletter!! Editorial:

It been a harrowing few months hasn¡¯t it? With all the furore whipping up our community regarding the Poll tax issue it¡¯s definitely been an interesting period at our house lately.For me personally, I didn¡¯t take too much of an interest late last year when it was announced that the Chinese people would receive an apology from the Government regarding a sum of money paid by our grandparents and Great grandparents when they entered NZ.It wasn¡¯t until I started to listen to what was actually going on that I started to form my own opinion and realise that this will affect me in some form or another. On Tuesday 21stMay 2002 I attended a meeting held at the Office of Ethnic Affairs, I, along with 200 other of our community members went along to see what it was all about. The purpose of the meeting was to inform people of what was happening at the present time, withregard to having been apologised to, the next question was, where to from here? This meeting was just one stop of a Nationwide roadshow with Hamilton and Levin being the next couple of stops. I was stunned. Of the reported 200 attendees present I recognised that there were less than 10 people between the ages of 15 ¨C 30. I thought to myself ¡°hey, this concerns us too.¡± One girl, Koreen Young, (a student living in Wellington with family ties to the Hawkes Bay, and before someone asks ¡°who are her parents?¡± I¡¯m not able to tell you at this time), put forth the question ¡°where were all the people her age?¡±Good bloody point I said to myself. And its true, where were all the people in that 15-30 year old bracket? Many people of our age group, (and I write in general terms here), think that these issues do not affect them, some may take the view that their "olds" (parents) will take it upon themselves to "work it out" and tell us what happened at the outcome of all the discussions. But the guts of it is, that we need to take it upon ourselves to arm ourselves with knowledge. Find out what¡¯s going on, and how it may affect us, should this issue go any further. A group of young people are interested in getting everyone in this age group to attend a meeting, and before you all groan and say, ¡°No, we don¡¯t want to¡± you may want to take note of this:

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Chinese New Year Festival 2003 takes top honour
30.09.03





Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre's festival has won the overall supreme award in this year's TrustPower Wellington City Community Awards announced today.


TrustPower, in partnership with Wellington City Council, will award all winners in an invitation-only ceremony tonight in the Council Chamber in the Wellington Town Hall from 5:30pm.

The awards aim to recognise the efforts and achievements of voluntary organisations who devote hours of time and energy every year in making the city a better place to live.

Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast views the awards as a great opportunity to acknowledge the work of some groups not normally rewarded.

She also applauds Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre for winning the arts and culture award and the supreme overall trophy for the Chinese New Year Festival 2003: "Wellington has a large, active Chinese community - it's great to see the centre's efforts being recognised."

The awards cover five categories: heritage and environment, health and well-being, arts and culture, sports and leisure, and education and child youth development.

The winner and runner up in each category will get cash prizes. The overall winner also receives a cash prize and a trophy.