{"id":77842,"date":"2022-01-19T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=77842"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:11:23","slug":"donation-based-community-dinners-return-in-time-for-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/donation-based-community-dinners-return-in-time-for-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation-based community dinners return in time for Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tokicafe_\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toki Bap Caf\u00e9<\/a> in Manson's Hall is bringing back monthly dinners under the catchy name of \"ACDC,\" which stands for \"A Community Dinner Club.\" Kicking things off will be a Lunar New Year menu on Tuesday, Feb. 1 to celebrate the Year of the Tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Toki Bap owner Sujon (aka Susan John) began the community meal tradition about five years ago as a response to interpersonal conflict and division happening on the island at the time. Her funding comes from seed grants, most recently MicroGrants for Neighbours in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/corteshealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cortes Community Health Association<\/a>. The dinners are offered by donation, with the proceeds cycling into the next community meal.<\/p>\n<p>The menu for Feb. 1\u2014served 5-8 p.m.\u2014will include Chinese must-have traditional foods like dumplings and noodles. The event is also in need of volunteers (who will work in exchange for a complimentary meal). To make a reservation or to volunteer, contact Sujon via 250-935-6665 or email at toki8cafe@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To find out how Toki Bap Caf\u00e9 grew out of a homeschooling project, listen to the full CKTZ News interview with Sujon below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toki Bap Caf\u00e9 in Manson&#8217;s Hall is bringing back monthly dinners under the catchy name of &#8220;ACDC,&#8221; which stands for &#8220;A Community Dinner Club.&#8221; Kicking things off will be a Lunar New Year menu on Tuesday, Feb. 1 to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. Toki Bap owner Sujon (aka Susan John) began the community&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":77865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[12020,9873,12021,12023,12022,10290,7089,7088],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77842"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=77842"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=77842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}