Weihang Guo goes to Ctown to buy chicken drumsticks in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He wants to make some delicious chicken drumsticks. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo cooks cabbages at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He thinks his dinner is almost done after this procedure. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo puts all the cabbages in the pan at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He waits for the pan to heat up. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo pours sauces into cabbages to make them more delicious at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He wants some more flavors in them. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo’s chicken drumsticks is almost done after some time at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. He wants the meat more fresh and tender, so he cooks it for another ten minutes. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo’s dinner is done at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He thinks this dinner is delicious. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo prepares sauces to cook cabbages at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. He wants some spicy sauce for that. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo begins to cut cabbages up at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He wants some vegetables for his dinner. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo completes all his procedure in cooking chicken drumsticks at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. He cooks chicken drumsticks for his dinner. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo arrives at home and cooks dinner in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. He wants to make some delicious chicken drumsticks. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo finishes to do his dinner in his house in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday Sept.28, 2021. He wants something really good for his dinner. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo has his dinner with Xinhao Tang in their house in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept.28, 2021. They seem to have a really delicious dinner on that night. (J24/ Zeyu Lin)

Weihang Guo goes to Ctown in Bethlehem, Pa. to buy some chicken drumsticks and cabbages for his dinner in the next day on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. He wants a great and delicious dinner after one day of hard working, so he decides to do something that costs much time but very good for him to enjoy after one month of studying in Lehigh University.

Weihang arrives at his home in Bethlehem, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. He peels off the meat from chicken drumsticks and put it in the pan. He adds some sauces to make it more delicious.

Hopefully, after some time, the chicken meat will be fresh tender and good to chew. Then, he pours some water into the pan to steam the chicken meat for some time.

Weihang shifts to cut cabbages after pouring water to the pan and waits for the chicken to be done. He deems that it saves time if he cooks chicken drumsticks first and then cooks cabbages since the time he uses to steaming chicken can be used to cook cabbages.

In Weihang’s opinion, adding some special sauces to cabbages can make his dinner more worthy to have. After he puts some peppercorns into the pan to make it smell better, he puts all the cabbages into the pan to cook. For him, spicy food is tasty for him to have.

After all these processes, Weihang pours a little soy sauce into the pan to make the cabbages smell better. At the meanwhile, the chicken drumsticks he steams is almost done, and water in that pan is almost evaporated, making the chicken to absorb as much flavors as it can. In Chinese, it is called “shouzhi”, meaning that making all the sauces and flavors into the things you are cooking.

After he is done with cabbages, the chicken drumsticks are done too. He then goes to his room to change clothes to have his decent dinner with Xinhao Tang.

“He cooks really good,” Xinhao says, “but we do not have enough time to do this every day. Thus, having the chance to eat this kind of chicken drumsticks once is good enough.”

He cooks up all these two food  for his dinner to make he more enjoy the time he spent in Lehigh University since these two kinds of cooking methods are his favorite, and cooking makes him to forget all the unhappy things to to embrace the life here.