Songpa-gu Shared Kitchen 'Songparang Cooking Class' Receives Positive Resident Feedback

Cooking Classes Featuring Chef-Recommended Pasta and Flower Cupcakes Until December 3

Making Macarons

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Songpa-gu (Mayor Park Seong-su) is operating a cooking class at the Garak 1-dong Community Center shared kitchen ‘Songparang’ until December 3.

Since September last year, the district has opened the staff cafeteria on the 3rd floor of the Garak 1-dong Community Center and has been running the shared kitchen ‘Songparang,’ where residents cook and communicate together.

The cooking class, which started its first session on the 24th of last month and is being held a total of five times until the 3rd of next month, invites experts to the shared kitchen ‘Songparang’ to cook food together with neighbors.

The classes are tailored to different age groups so that children, teenagers, and seniors can all participate. In particular, the classes ▲ ‘Tongyeong Hae Macaron Making’ for teenagers on October 24 and ▲ ‘Cordial Beverage Making’ for seniors on October 30 received great responses from participants.

Additionally, classes such as ▲ ‘Chef Recommended Pasta’ on November 9, ▲ ‘Making Jjeomjang to Eat Myself’ on November 26, and ▲ ‘Christmas Style Flower Cupcake’ on December 3 are scheduled.

The number of participants per session is 12, and registration is ongoing. The participation fee is 5,000 KRW per person. Food made in the cooking class can be packed and taken home.

Applications can be made through Hummingbee, a shared enterprise in Seoul (by phone or email). The cooking classes will be recorded by session and uploaded on YouTube so that they can be accessed and reviewed anytime at home.

Meanwhile, the shared kitchen ‘Songparang,’ meaning Songpa’s Sarangchae (a traditional guesthouse), is open to all residents from 2 PM to 6 PM. The district is also operating various programs to share affection and communicate among neighbors by establishing a caf? and media center on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the community center along with the shared kitchen.

Park Seong-su, Mayor of Songpa-gu, said, “In busy urban life, I hope that through the experience of cooking and sharing food with neighbors in the shared kitchen, residents will feel familial love and form a warm village community.”

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