Food Knows No border

As the sky gradually darkens on an October evening, Carter Smith ‘25, Aleksa Zivanov ‘27, Thomas Greer ‘25, Charlie Zhao ‘26, and Hanchen Ou ‘26 from North Cross School set out on a journey to eat delicious food. North Cross school gathers students from 13 different countries all around the world, it is precisely because of this situation that students from North Cross have the opportunity to try each other’s hometown delicacies. K-Pot is a restaurant that offers a hot pot buffet, and hot pot is very famous in Asia. Carter Smith ‘25 is a student from Canada, and he is very interested in Asian food, so he decided to give it a shot. “How should I cook the meat in the hot pot?” Smith asked. Smith’s questions are the most common question for the people who are eating hot pot for the first time. Charlie Zhao ‘26 is from China, he taught Smith how to eat hot pot step by step. “You need to put the meat into the hot pot first,” Zhao said. “You may eat the meat when the meat changes color.” Smith put the meat into the hot pot as Zhao said, and picked out the meat after it changed color. “It tastes so good,” Smith said, “I never ate meat in this way in my life, but it actually impressed me.” After Smith’s first bite, he just couldn’t stop eating. “I like hot pot so much,” Smith said, “what else can I say at this point, Food knows no border…” Photo by Thomas Greer ‘25.

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