First Chinese soup in US

It has been nearly two months since I first came here. Although it's not a very long time, I can strongly feel the deep discrepancy between eastern and western culture in every aspects of our lives. I think the first and most important thing for Asian students to adapted to here is the food. People here make their food very easy and do not take a lot of time and energy to make it. So I can't eat many familiar types of food; especially some delicious soup here. I really missed this type of food around one month after I arrived in the US. I told my host mother that I missed the soup with all the ingredients and the method we use in China. To my surprise, after I told her about the Chinese soup she tried to collect all the ingredients and cook it according to what I had said. I was not expecting this, but she prepared for nearly three weeks, and tried to collect all the essential ingredients which could be only found in the Korean market and cut them into special shapes. Last Friday, when I came back home and entered the kitchen, I was so astonishing to see such a big pot of Chop Pork Soup. Although it was not perfectly the same as soup in China, I felt really happy to see it here. It recalled my beautiful memory of home, sitting at the table, chatting with my parents and watching TV. I appreciate that my host family would do so much for me. Therefore, when I drink the Chop Pork Soup again, the warm memory is not only restricted to my family in China, but now also my considerate host parents ^-^

by Wei