Shall We Go on a 'Virtual World Cuisine Journey' with Dongdong?

Gangdong Children's Center Provides Cooking Play Content to Make World Foods for Infants and Families

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Gangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Jeong-hoon) produced and released on the 25th a video content series featuring world cuisine that families with infants and toddlers can enjoy making at home.

"Online World Cuisine Travel" is a cooking play video content planned by Gangdong Children's Center for families with infants and toddlers who have increased childcare time at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April, Gangdong Children's Center provided a "Home Cook Play" video showcasing familiar snack recipes for young children such as cream tteokbokki and so-tteok so-tteok (sausage and rice cake skewers).

This time, Dongdong-i, the mascot of Gangdong Children's Center, and a chef appear directly to present dishes themed around various countries' cuisines.

The video content provided this time is the Thailand edition, showing the process of making Yum Woon Sen salad, a representative Thai dish, along with information about Thailand’s traditional clothing, national flag, weather, and other cultural details.

In addition to the Thailand edition, Gangdong Children's Center plans to produce and upload videos of dishes from various countries such as ▲Korea - nut rice gangjeong ▲United Kingdom - egg English muffin ▲Japan - dango ▲Mexico - taco shell every second week of the month until December.

"Online World Cuisine Travel with Dongdong-i" offers an opportunity to indirectly experience world travel through food, which was not possible due to COVID-19, and is expected to help children's sensory development and the formation of healthy eating habits through cooking play.

The video content can be viewed on the Gangdong Children's Center website as well as on YouTube, Facebook, and other social media platforms.

Lee Jeong-hoon, Mayor of Gangdong-gu, said, "Although extended home childcare may be physically and mentally exhausting, I hope families overcome COVID-19 healthily by making world dishes with their children through these cooking play videos."

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