Hello, dear friends!
I'm happy to announce that our 2020 Dumpling Pop Up! tickets are now available for purchase. When we held the event last year, you probably remember that it was for the purpose of fundraising for the build-out construction costs of our bakeshop. Well now that it has been built and opened (with all of your support, thank you!!!), I'm really excited that we get to have this year's Pop-Up right here at the Rockford City Market where we are.
For those of you that didn't get to come last year, here's a little background on the event: In my culture, celebrating Lunar New Year is a very important part of being a Mongolian. It's a tradition centered around family, friends, and food...and the main thing we eat for food on this holiday is, of course, dumplings. Every family I knew growing up would make thousands of dumplings just to feed all the family members and friends that come by to visit from far and wide. Now that I live here in the States with most of my family still living on the other side of the world, I feel like my friends, my C&C crew, and all of our amazing customers that we see every day pretty much make up my new "extended family"...so I'm excited to make a ton of dumplings, feed you all, and to usher in the Year of the Rat together!
I hope you will join us as well as bring your own family and friends along for the festivities!
The event will be held on Saturday, February 29th from 6 - 9pm in the Bowtruss Room of the Rockford City Market right outside of our bakeshop. Adult tickets are $20 per person and $12 for children 10 & under. Tickets include ALL YOU CAN EAT traditional Mongolian handcrafted dumplings and a variety of side salads. There will be a cash bar and desserts available for purchase. Like last time, it's by reservation only and you can purchase tickets HERE on our website, at the shop, or by calling us at (815)315-0960.
While the Dumpling Pop-Up is the main reason for sending out this newsletter, I should mention it hasn't escaped me that it's Valentine's Day tomorrow! We are planning on baking up some beautiful V-Day themed pastries alongside our regular fare for you and your sweetie to enjoy. We will also be featuring fresh handcrafted chocolate bon bons in my favorite flavor (Passionfruit) that our friends at Wonderland Sweets are making for us. In addition, we are planning to make a much-requested bread as of late for tomorrow, our Blue Cheese & Castelvetrano Olive loaves. It's definitely true that a way to someone's heart is through their stomach...so stop by and see us :)
See you soon,
Jojo