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>>Erik: So, You also have a supper club called Happa Kitchen where you bring together mix
race backgrounds and explore different types of cooking there in hopes in opening minds.
How does that come about and how does that play into that goal to help reduce resistance
to multicultural experience?
>>Cathy: I think the aims for the Happa Kitchen have really been two fold in a sense. On the
one hand, we all love to cook food. We are all multiracial, half Asian mostly, because
that`s the happa word. Me and my co founder are both half Asian. So, we all like to cook
food that has a playful twist on something. One night was a French fusion and Shanghai,
that old Shanghai, Paris of the east dinner. So, I think the food is one element of it,
having fun with that, fusing culture in unexpected ways. We always try to do something no one
has ever seen before. So, we also talk about a lot of race issues, I guess. We just wanted
to make it a collective, make it a cooperative club of half, multi, bi racial people. Through
that we`ve met a lot of really cool people. We all have these shared experiences growing
up, the same questions, the same dilemmas, psychoses or whatever. So, it`s been very
neat because so many people haven`t had a sense of community with the half, multiracial
community. And theyÕre like, ``Whoa, I didn`t know this is something I should or could embrace
and now there are all these people, and lets talk about these issues.``