2 cents cart is a mobile installation and performative artwork modeled after Asian street food and tea carts. Setting up shop over 4 days front of CommunityWise Resource Centre and in Calgary Chinatown, tea and handmade rice cakes were served. Visitors can receive refreshments in exchange for their “two cents” or a monetary donation.
Dates
Monday, September 2
4pm – 5pm
CommunityWise Resource Centre
Friday, September 13
7pm – 9pm
Mid-Autumn Festival, Special Menu
Chinatown – Riverfront Ave SW & 2nd Ave SW
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/2dsqHg4vJv41hfHa7
Tuesday, September 17
7pm – 9:30pm
CommunityWise Resource Centre
Saturday, September 28
7pm – 9:30pm
CommunityWise Resource Centre
Menu
Tea: Matcha
Rice cake: red bean mochi
Tea: Ti kuan yin (Iron Goddess of Mercy)
Rice cake: Snowskin mooncake w/ salted duck egg yolk & white lotus paste
Tea: Hong Kong milk tea
Rice cake: Taiwan-style mugwort rice cake w/ minced pork, radish slices, mushrooms & spices
Tea: Roasted oolong
Rice cake: (Tong but lut 糖不甩) glutinous rice ball in ginger syrup w/ roasted black sesame, coconut & peanuts
Order Form
Each day served a pre-determined set of tea and rice cake for the public to consume. People can choose to pay-what-they-want and/or fill out the form of the day, or their “two cents”:
Day 1 / photos by Dave McGonigal
Day 2 / photos by Caitlind r.c. Brown
Day 3 / photos by Dave McGonigal
Day 4 / photos by Sergio Garcia Palma
