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Thursday, Sep 30, 2004

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Tamil Nadu - Madurai

Of mouth-watering Chinese dishes

Of all cuisines being prepared and served all over the world, Chinese cuisines have their own admirers with some of their delectable dishes enjoying a good patronage even from first-time eaters.

No catering curriculum could miss the Chinese dishes in their syllabus. Just to give their students the feel, the Department of Hotel Management and Catering Science of the Subbulakshmi Lakshmipathy College organised a workshop on `Chinese Cuisine' at their Advance Training Kitchen.

The Chef, Kalai Selvan, of the Taj Garden Retreat conducted the workshop, organised for third-year students of the department. He gave a brief history of the cuisine.

The Chinese cuisines were roughly divided into `rice-accompanying' (Fan-Tsai, plain home cooked dishes), `wine-accompanying' dishes (Chiu-Tsai, quick friend, highly savoury, crispy-crunchy) and `big dishes' (Ta-Tsai, larger steamed casseroles and roasts), he said.

The Chinese considered two things as important in their cooking, he said. The multiple phase heating referred to the cooking of food by using two methods. For example, food could be steamed first and then deep-fried while the second method was multiple phase flavouring where food could be marinated first, cooked and flavoured again, Mr. Kalai Selvan explained. There was also a demonstration of various basic sauces and mouth-watering dishes.

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The use of renewable alternatives to petrol such as hydrogen (in various forms), biofuels, ethanol, compressed natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, liquified natural gas, solar power, wind power and electricity, propane and biogas was discussed at length at an inter-collegiate seminar on `Alternatives for petrol' for undergraduates at the Thiagarajar Arts College.

The seminar, conducted by the Department of Chemistry of Thiagarajar Arts College in Madurai, elaborated the probability of using Jatropha Curcas (popularly known as `kattu amanakku') as an alternative. Besides several other aspects such as pollution, economy and availability, eco-friendliness and risks involved were discussed.

The technical session for postgraduates on `molecular modelling' highlighted the significance of molecular modelling as a tool to design new effective drugs and develop new materials of desired properties such as dendrimers, polymers etc.

In all 47 students representing different colleges all over the State participated and presented 29 papers in the UG stream and six papers in the PG section. Thiagarajar Arts College students numbering 30 presented 11 papers in the PG session and seven papers in the UG section.

G.A. Pathanjali, Deputy General Manager, High Energy Batteries, Tiruchi, focussed on types, characteristics, manufacture and applications of high energy batteries.

M. Arunagiri, Principal, welcomed the gathering.

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Student members of the Nature Club of Saraswathi Narayanan College constructed a low-cost sanitary complex at the Panchayat Union Middle School, Chinnaodaippu, as part of the Natural Environmental Awareness Campaign.

Inaugurating the complex, R. Srinivasan, Principal, said it was an extension activity of the college to the rural areas under the Community Development Project to promote sanitation among rural school children.

The inaugural function was marked by planting tree saplings on the school premises by the Principal and the president of the village education committee.

P. Rajamanickam, Head, Department Zoology, R. Santhanakrishnan, Coordinator, Nature Club, students and village education committee members took part.

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The Association of Ablazing Automobile of the Department of Automobile Engineering of the K.L.N. College of Engineering arranged a State-level technical symposium and quiz contest `PROPLEZ-04' at the postgraduate conference hall.

A total of 50 engineering colleges responded and sent 110 technical papers of which 23 were selected for the paper presentation. The presentations mainly focussed on automobile and allied engineering. A quiz contest was conducted in two stages for the selected external and internal participants.

T. Kumaresan, Regional Manager, ABT Industries Limited, mentioned that a successful career in automobile engineering was based on the knowledge of marketing and financial management and effective communication.

Jeya Suresh Jeyaraj, Managing Director, Jeyaraj Nadar Automobile Agencies, asked the students to pull up their socks to face the competitive environment, as the automobile field was one of the mass employment providers in Tamil Nadu, he said.

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(Contributed by T. Saravanan in Madurai.)

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