As a Hakka

　　　Just as what I said in the last article, I am a Hakka. The truth is that, I am proud of being a Hakka. My parents are both Hakka so I was grow up in the atmosphere of Hakka’s food, the language, and the custom. These things are all my familiar things so I am eager wanting to let everyone know that Hakka cultural is beautiful and the language is also charming. My mom and my dad are all Hakka and both my grandparents home are in Meeinoog. Meeinoog is the place I know mostly besides my hometown, Kaohsiung. In recent years the most famous tourist spot is of course the huge amount of flower seas.

　　　The flower is big with many different colors, and the height can to reach our waist. Furthermore, there are many bees flying around the flower, which means that the bees would around you when you taking the picture with the flowers! The best time to see the flower seas is in Chinese New Year, and actually there are no certain spot or place, which means that you can just drive the car in the street and you will find that there are a lot of people and cars parking at the side of the road. Then there would be sheets of flowers.

　　　As for my favorite cuisine , it is certainly the Rice Flat Noodles. Even in Kaohsiung or Tainan I eat them very often. But, I still think that both Tainan and Kaohsiung can’t compare with Meinong’s rice flat Noodles. I don’t know the reasons maybe the way they cooked or the relish are different. Relish means that when a cuisine is ready you need to put some And I recommend you a street called “Rice Flat Noodles Street” in Meinong. It is not the name of the street; however, because there are more than twenty stores selling Rice Flat Noodles there, it got the name.

　　　Rise is Hakka people’s staple food. They eat rice three meals a day. In addition to plain rice, they use rice to make all kinds of snacks. There are rice snacks that are available only on Chinese New Year, festivals, wedding, and funerals such as Hong Ban or Gui Ban. We add sesame, peanuts, red beans as stuffing. It’s really tasty. Even now I just type it on the computer, I’m almost slobbering.

　　　As a Hakka, I am proud that I like being a member of this race. As the time passed, in my generation, more and more people losing the identity or even don’t care about who they are, where they belong to. But I still remain this important principle in my mind, knowing that I can’t forget that I am a Hakka or that how to speak Hakka. So now I am learning Hakka from my parents. I would also teach my friends and my roommate how to pronounce it. At the same time I learn Southern Min form them. Is it interesting? As a English major, I really hope that I can learn many new languages but also keep my own languages!