Well, the Mid-Autumn swung past, and no, no mooncakes for me. I'm not that big a fan of them. Mom wanted a box of them, and so my cousin and I wandered into the Asian Market on Drury St. here in Dublin, and checked out selection (this was a month ago). I noticed that there were huge labels indicating that some were made in Hong Kong. Mom made me double-check, given all the scares of things fake and dodgey from Mainland China, many of us are wary of what to buy in the Asian Market. As many of you realise (or not), mooncakes are not terribly healthy, but I've been noticing that more and more alternatives come on the market for these mooncakes.
* Just the lotus seed paste (no duck egg yolk)
* Substitute to lotus seed paste like red bean.
etc...
Just goes to show that there are healthier alternatives to the traditional recipes, and Chinese people are getting more health concious, which is a good thing.
Those Japanese think of everything! I've been thought a craze of making sushi at home, and it's so simple! Ok, it make take a few hours to prepare (more so for things to cool down), but they are so scrumptious as well. But back to the point of this post, a sushi maker to make life easier for all you budding sushi makers. Ok, as my cousin pointed out, it is a bit small, but I still like the idea. Heehee.
The employment rights should be known by more immigrants, especially now it has come to light that foreign nationals are being taken advantage by their own country men and women.
But the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has information for employment rights in the following language: Chinese |Hungarian | Irish | Latvian | Lithuanian | Polish | Romanian | Russian
Here's the Chinese document: Employment Rights [Simplified Chinese]
RTE news reports that Immigrant council calls for English classes.
The Immigrant Council of Ireland has called on the Government to invest in a national programme of English language courses for migrants.
I will try and keep up-to-date with this, and post up more on this here.
More news:
* Minister wants language skills to affect citizenship claims