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  • I've been running my own cooking classes for more than 12 years

  • I learned cooking from my dad

  • He's a really picky person with food

  • He always shopped the most fresh ingredients from the morning market

  • I go to the morning market very very early

  • Usually before 7:30 am

  • I go there to buy vegetables and fruit

  • For example, I buy fresh shiitake mushrooms

  • before it gets sweaty in the hot sun

  • I enjoy talking to the shop owners

  • street vendors

  • in the morning market

  • They're my old friends!

  • And they're part of my life

  • My guests come from all over the world

  • They come from the US, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong...

  • I love to share my passion with them

  • Especially, I love to learn from them

  • I enjoy cooking Taiwanese family food

  • When I'm cooking, I connect to many things

  • The ingredients

  • The memory

  • The relationship of my family

  • I see their faces

  • I feel my identity

  • Being an Insider allows me to connect with people

  • At the end of the day, when I see my guests' happy faces

  • We really enjoy the day

  • I feel...what a wonderful world

I've been running my own cooking classes for more than 12 years

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A2 market enjoy morning connect jodie shiitake

Tripinsiders: Jodie's Kitchen in Taiwan

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    Li Chieh posted on 2019/11/03
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relationship

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UK /rɪˈleɪʃnʃɪp/

  • noun
  • Connection between two or more people or things
  • The way in which two or more people or groups regard and behave towards each other.
  • Way people interact or live with each other
  • Romantic or loving friendship between two people
  • The way in which two or more organizations or businesses are connected.
  • A connection, association, or involvement.
  • The way in which two or more people are connected as family members.
  • The way in which two or more things are connected in mathematics or logic.
  • A romantic or sexual connection between two people.
  • The state of being related or connected.

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passion

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  • Enthusiasm or eagerness for something.
  • A strong and barely controllable emotion.
  • Strong sexual desire or love.
  • The suffering of Jesus Christ in the period leading up to and including his crucifixion.
  • noun
  • Powerful, positive excitement and interest
  • Something for which one has a great love
  • A thing for which someone has a strong enthusiasm.
  • Strong sexual feelings toward someone
  • The suffering of Jesus Christ in the period leading up to and including his crucifixion.
  • other
  • A strong feeling of sexual love or desire.
  • A strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something.

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identity

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  • noun
  • Collection of qualities that makes a person
  • Who someone is
  • The unique representation of an entity in a computer system
  • The state of being the same; sameness.
  • An equation that is true for all values of the variables
  • A collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known
  • The state of being the same
  • The qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person or group different from others
  • Who someone is; the name of a person
  • Who someone is; the name of a person
  • other
  • The qualities and attitudes that make a person different from other people
  • The state of being the same

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learn

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  • verb
  • To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
  • To gain knowledge or skill by studying, from experience, or by being taught.
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  • To gain knowledge or skill by studying, from experience, or by being taught.
  • other
  • To gain knowledge or skill by studying, from experience, or by being taught.
  • To find out something.
  • To find out something.

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connect

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  • verb
  • To associate a thing with something else
  • To establish a relationship or communication.
  • To join or attach things together
  • To become friends with another person
  • To transfer from one part of a trip to another
  • To understand or feel an affinity with someone or something.
  • other
  • To join (electrical devices) so as to provide an electrical circuit.
  • To join or link together.
  • To relate or associate in the mind.
  • other
  • To establish a relationship or communication.

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memory

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  • Ability of the mind to call back past things
  • Space for the storage of information on a computer
  • Something that has been remembered

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person

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  • noun
  • Man, woman or child
  • A character in a play, story, or other work of fiction.
  • A grammatical category that distinguishes between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
  • A human being; an individual.
  • An entity recognized by law as having rights and responsibilities, such as an individual, corporation, or organization.
  • An individual, typically used to emphasize their distinct identity or role.

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sweaty

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  • adjective
  • Covered in sweat, or smelling of sweat

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picky

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  • adjective
  • Careful about deciding on things; hard to please

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part

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  • noun
  • Division of a book
  • Ratio of something, e.g. 3 of gin, 1 of tonic
  • A line in a person's hair, made with a comb
  • Character an actor plays on stage, movie, or TV
  • Some, but not all of a specific thing
  • Role in causing something to happen
  • verb
  • To make a line in a person's hair, by using a comb
  • To move two things apart creating a space
  • To leave someone, or to break off a relationship
  • adjective
  • To some degree; half; not fully

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