Annual International Dinner

In a bid to widen our culinary experience, we hold an international dinner at least once every year.

We all choose a different country to a cook a dish from, preferably something more unusual, that we wouldn't normally eat or find at a food hall. Just buying something to bring is strictly a no-no! We then enjoy an informal three course dinner party together at someone's house, where we sample all the food.

Every member who comes - both the guys and the girls - brings one dish each (we coordinate in advance to make sure that we don't get two countries the same in a particular year, and to make sure we have several courses covered). Some years we have had international drinks as well. Over the years we have discovered that every single one of our members is a talented cook, and everything we have tried has been delicious!

Each International Dinner is eagerly anticipated. We held our first International Dinner in August 2000, and enjoyed it so much we held it again in June 2001 and April 2002. Since then, it has become a tradition to hold it every June, usually our last event for the Rotaract year, to relax and enjoy some great food with great people!

The international dinners so far have included entrees, main courses, desserts and drinks from:

Argentina Argentina China China France France Germany Germany Greece Greece
Hungary Hungary India India Italy Italy Japan Japan Mexico Mexico
Poland Poland Russia Russia Seychelles Seychelles Taiwan Taiwan Thailand Thailand

In 2005 we even had a visiting German Rotaractor join us, who cooked a scrumptious traditional German potato dish for us!

More photos Related Photos: The 2000 International Dinner; the 2001 International Dinner; the 2002 International Dinner; the buffet at the 2002 International Dinner; Cooking for the 2003 International Dinner; the 2003 Internatinal Dinner; the 2004 Internatinal Dinner; the 2005 International Dinner.


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Entrée of the 2000 International Dinner One half of the table at the 2nd International Dinner in June 2001 The 3rd International Dinner in June 2003 The 4th International Dinner in June 2004