OVER THE EDGE
October 10-24, 2007

Too Much Food!
A Night out with the ISSA

Mircu GRANT

Puorto Epiror

After a week of selling tickets and of track-
ing down board members and faculty it would
finally happen, The International Studies
Student Association (ISSA) Hot Pot Night.
First, the clear any misconceptions, hot pot
has nothing to do with a serious case of the
munchies, it does however to do with more
Chinese food then one would ever care to see
in their life.

When I attended the ISSA pizza night two
weeks ago I had no idea that by the end of the
night I would be the VP of this campus club,
let alone be helping to organize a club night
that I had no idea about. After being named
the Vice President, my next order of business
was to ask, “What is a hot pot?” To which I
was answered, “Kinda like Chinese fondu.”
At that mention my stomach immediately
turned, the idea of tofu and noodles in an al-
tered cheese like substance had me looking
for the door. However, I came to find after
asking a bit more and eventually attending the
night, that a Hot Pot is where you sit at a table
with boiling broth in front of you, one spi-
cier then the other, and you proceed to cook
all sorts of things in this broth, from fish and
beef balls, to lettuce and broccoli, to strips of
cut beef and prawns, to different noodles, and
yes, of course, tofu.

T will mention here that you also have the
option to use sauces on your meal. Offered to
us were a peanut sauce of sorts, the ever clas-
sic soy sauce, some strange sauce that was

none the less quite good, and this odd sauce
that I was told was sweet cherry sauce. I was
misinformed. Upon closer examination one
can easily make out the chilies. I am one who
normally enjoys spicy foods, and often will
fill myself with an establishment’s spiciest
food, laughing it off as mild. However, upon
tasting this sauce, and being foolish enough
to let some meat marinate in two teaspoons
of it, I had to use six spoons of the peanut |
sauce and two of soy sauce just to bring it
back to a manageable heat level and down
most of a beer to save my mouth, watering
eyes, and sweating face. But I digress.
In all told attendance there was 29 people,
sitting around one long table and another
small table, sharing stories, talking, relax-
ing, drinking; generally having a merry old
time, save one fool attempting to make sure
he could still taste after experimenting a little
too much. At $15 dollars a ticket most ate

so much that either at the table or the next |,

morning they were commenting that they ate

far too much, but the food was so good they a

could not stop.
This is planned as the first event for the }
ISSA this year and they intended on holding
more, including a bowling night, a ski night }
in the Hart, and with more on the drawing
board, it looks as though it could shape up
to be a great year for the ISSA with events
planned not only for INTS students, but the
whole student body. I highly recommend
coming out as if the Hot Pot is any indication
of an ISSA event, the rest should be a blast.

Bs

Mircu Grant, Puoto Eniror

People dig in and can’t stop at the ISSA Hot Pot Night

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