College students cook 01 "and start cooking, just like coming out of the deep mountains of the school." Yangming University creates a perfect dormitory kitchen.

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"they say that the feeling of cooking is like coming out of the deep mountains of the school." Huang Guiying, deputy provost of Yangming University, recalled her enthusiastic response when she took the students to cook for the first time, and talked about the future dormitory kitchen renovation plan planned with the students.

Cooking is a matter of survival. If you don't want to cook, you can only cook it secretly.

Yangming University is located in Beitou. With the undulating terrain, the campus near Yangming Mountain is divided into three floors from top to bottom: the administrative district near the flat, the dormitory and student restaurant on the hillside, and the teaching area on the mountain. There are not many student cafeterias and convenience stores on campus, and students have limited dining choices. with the emergence of delivery service, many students in the school also choose to order delivery to solve the meal problem.

"when the typhoon comes, cooking has become a battle for students' survival." Huang Guiying explained that in the event of a natural disaster, students who stay on campus will buy food in advance, which is the peak period for dormitory cooking. She believes that it is no exaggeration for students to describe cooking in typhoon days as a battle for survival, and there is usually a demand, so the setting of cooking space in the dormitory is very important.

Huang Guiying, Deputy Provost of Yangming University (Photography _ Lin Yijun)

"students don't want to cook, they just need space." She said that when domestic universities built their campus in the past, they did not take into account the need for students to cook, or even burned down the dormitory for fear of students cooking, thinking that students could eat out food, so they did not set up special cooking space, but students in need would still cook in the dormitory. For the management unit, the dormitory self-cooking underground is not easy to manage, but also hides safety problems. She believes that since students have a need for self-cooking, they should make improvements.

The latest dormitory can be cooked and lots can be drawn to share a paid refrigerator.

Among the existing dormitories in the school, the fifth dormitory, which was completed in 104, has the latest equipment and is the only dormitory that can cook. Each floor has a simple cooking space, and card sensing is needed to enter the cooking area. Among them, odd floors can be heated by ovens, electric cookers, toasters, microwave ovens and other heating equipment; even floors can be cooked in microwave ovens, but all cooking spaces are not equipped with trash bins.

Cooking space on odd floor of fifth dormitory (photography _ Lin Yijun)

"the purpose of not setting up a dustbin is to enable students to develop the habit of dealing with the aftermath." Xie Bozhou, a dormitory counselor, said, while facing the dormitory office is a transparent refrigerator filled with a dazzling variety of vegetables, drinks and sauces, especially: each box is marked with a different dormitory.

"this is a shared paid refrigerator." Xie Bozhou explained that every semester, each dormitory will be opened to register. After registering and drawing lots, the winning dormitory can use one of the squares and pay a monthly usage fee of 150 yuan. The counselor said that because of the transparent and paid system, students will supervise each other and work together to keep the refrigerator clean and tidy, and the overall cleaning will be done at the end of the semester.

The space for sharing refrigerators is limited, so some students will buy their own refrigerators and put them in the dormitory, and the electricity bill must be borne by themselves. Xie Bozhou said that at present, most of the shared and private refrigerators can meet the needs of students, and the ideal management situation is that the shared refrigerator equipment can be upgraded to have to be turned on because they cannot keep an eye on the refrigerator 24 hours a day.

Paid refrigerator, open dormitory application every semester, draw lots to decide the counter, the winning dormitory pays 150 yuan per month (photography _ Lin Yijun) in order to cook and learn to buy food, the delivery man also has to deliver meals when he gets lost.

"second-hand refrigerators are so popular that they are hard to get." Guo Yuyi, of the Institute of Mental philosophy at Yangming University, is a user of the paid refrigerator and a cadre of the fifth dormitory. She started living in the fifth dormitory last semester in Kaohsiung. She thinks she is very lucky to live in the fifth dormitory. "in other dormitories, because someone used to cook and catch fire, now they can't even use the microwave oven."

"I went north to Yangming to study, and after staying, I began to cook for myself, because it was only when I had to cook that I started to buy food at the vegetable market." Guo Yuyi said as he added the yolk liquid from the bowl to the pot and boiled it with Wudong noodles and sauces to quickly finish the hot dinner. She starts a party about once a month, and her specialty is salmon fried rice.

Guo Yuxuan still eats on campus most of the time. She finds that eating out near the school is generally more expensive. If you want to find cheap food, you have to go farther away. Most of the students in the school also eat out. "We see Foodpanda and Ubereat delivery workers almost every day on campus, and they often have to help them show the way when they get lost," she said with a smile.

Guo Yuxuan, also a student cadre in the fifth dormitory, is cooking dinner (photo _ Lin Yijun) from the third floor to the seventh floor just to boil eggs, save money to eat more, and relax.

"the electric cooker is most commonly used in the dormitory. Once I boiled eggs and found that the electric cooker on the third and fifth floor was full, and finally climbed to the seventh floor to use the electric cooker." Guo Yuxuan recalls with a smile that everyone in the dormitory had different cooking habits. She thought that she used the kitchen most frequently, and foreign students cooked the most frequently, while some students almost cooked every day, even because there was an oven on the seventh floor, and some people even baked cookies.

"Cooking is very relaxing and economical. You can eat more vegetables and meat at the same cost." Her favorite vegetables are baby vegetables and bamboo shoots, but after buying vegetables, she found that there was a big difference in prices between the supermarket and the market, and she also found that she didn't know enough about where the food came from. "I thought baby vegetables were very expensive, but I didn't know why until I heard how the farmer planted them."

"if I have time, I will go to the farmer's market to buy vegetables, but most of them are bought nearby." It takes her about two to three hours to buy and cook, but as a result, she has reduced her time to reading. She still hopes to maintain the frequency of cooking. In the future, she will consider taking advantage of the opening time, cooking more at a time, and storing it in the refrigerator.

The Last mile of Food Farmer Education: University dormitory Kitchen

Huang Guiying, an associate professor at the Institute of Visual Culture at Yangming University, held courses and workshops on food and culture in the university two years ago. "at that time, students were expected to know more about food and food culture." She took her students to the off-campus cooking room during the mid-term and final exams and found that the students were not as undivided as they had imagined, and some could cook a whole table of dishes.

Tsai Chun-hsin, a dietitian in the school, goes to the student restaurant to observe the dishes every day, and the students regularly express their opinions. "they hope to reduce the fried matter, have more vegetables, and cook with less oil." Cai Junhan said that students in the school attach great importance to diet and health. Balsam pear, eggplant and green peppers, which are famous on the list, appear almost every day, and they are all quickly clipped out.

"the kitchen in the university dormitory is the last mile of food farmers' education, and it is also the place of friendship." Huang Guiying believes that in addition to satisfying appetite and health needs, self-cooking is also a place for students to communicate and practice the concept of food farmers. She said that when many college students live away from home for the first time, they can establish a good diet and life management style if they have room to cook themselves. in addition, hands-on cooking can also relieve the pressure on students' schoolwork and become a way for students to make friends.

Student cafeteria buffet, Yangming University students require the restaurant to provide more vegetables, less oil cooking (Photography _ Lin Yijun) dormitory kitchen renovation workshop, students participate

"changing the campus space seems to be a natural result." After Huang Guiying became deputy provost in August last year, the school also wanted to improve student activity space. She took advantage of the opportunity to plan and invited students to participate in the transformation. The dormitory kitchen was one of them. She explained that there is a lot of idle space in the existing campus dormitory, which can be re-used.

She designed the renovation plan of the dormitory kitchen as an one-credit general education course, and arranged the course time-intensive into a weekend workshop. on the first day, she invited professors from National Taiwan University, normal University, Central Plains University and the head of the mosque to attend the class. that night, students were asked to group into groups to conduct site surveys in various dormitories, to discuss and plan for the renovation of the dormitory, and to discuss the feasibility and amendments of the planning across groups the next day.

Through the participatory transformation of 25 students, more students can be encouraged to care about and discuss accommodation together.