Tuesday, August 29 | 5 p.m.−6 p.m.

Surrey, BC – Surrey Art Gallery is pleased to announce Soba’s Corner: A Chinese-Canadian Cooking Show, an online event with Joni Cheung also known as Snack Witch on Tuesday, August 29 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Invisible Fish exhibiting artist Cheung will share a recipe from their work Soba’s Corner.  Through Zoom, participants will spend an hour cooking together and learning from Cheung as they share the background of select Chinese-Canadian dishes and how food is shaped by migration.

Cheung says, “I am excited to see everyone virtually for a chill evening of wrapping doughy babies, while chatting about what they think peanut butter dumplings are and what they could be(come.)”

An ongoing YouTube-style cooking show which started during 2020, Soba’s Corner unpacks distinct Chinese-Canadian dishes from specific provinces, like Montréal-style peanut butter dumplings and Alberta ginger beef.

Please register with [email protected] for this online Zoom workshop and to receive the recipe for peanut butter dumplings.

If you have any access needs in relation to this online event, please reach out to [email protected]. If you need ASL interpretation, please provide us with two weeks advance notice.

About the artist

Joni Cheung aka Snack witch is a grateful, uninvited guest born on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, and səlilwətaɬ peoples. They are a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023). She holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. As a wicked #magicalgirl who eats art and makes snacks, she has exhibited and curated shows off and online across Turtle Island. Currently, they are based on the stolen lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples.