This video series, "Breaking Bread," explores the journeys of newcomer families in Chilliwack, BC, through the universal language of food, highlighting their personal stories, cultural heritage, and contributions to the community.
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hi my name is Mark Hart welcome to my
home chilak BC one of the most beautiful
and friendly cities in Canada chillak is
also one of the fastest growing cities
in Canada and a large part of this is
coming from an influx of new Canadian
families each bringing a part of their
cultural heritage to our community in
collaboration with the chilak local
immigration partnership
this video series aims to explore the
stories of these newcomer Families how
through the universal language of food
by baking together and breaking bread
together as a professional Baker and
owner of Rise baking lab a small baking
School in chilak BC I'll be spending
time baking with these newcomers will
dive into their culinary Heritage but
more than that will uncover their
personal Journeys along the way our
journey will culminate in a grand
celebration where the stars of the
series the newcomers themselves
will cater the event showcasing chill's
growing cultural diversity join me in
celebrating the rich and growing
tapestry of cultures that make chilak
such a Vibrant [Music]
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Community welcome to episode four of
Breaking Bread today's guest is the
director of diversity education and
resources at the archway Community
Services in abbotford let's welcome muhi
bakini hello welcome to the show yeah
thank you thank you for having me okay
let's start things off with just talking
about the recipe we're going to make so
what are we going to make today we're
going to make uh shakshuka sud I will
call it sud shakshuka because there are
different types of uh shukas okay um the
most famous one is the Moroccan one but
the difference between the sudes and the
Moroccan which is like more familiar um
is the Moroccan one is uh for our taste
we we think it is a bit watery the Shuka
is a little bit uh drier yeah though you
prepare it with the intention of eating
it with uh bread of your choice okay
okay and what uh what kind of meal is
this is this need it for is it a
breakfast is is it any any particular
time of the day that you would eat this
um yeah it depends uh on where the Su is
who is eating this dish is it's living
back home is actually considered like uh
you can eat it during the dinner time
yeah but uh here it can be um e as a as
a breakfast because it is very um easy
to cook yeah and um you can really
prepare it very fast but also um if
you're about to go to to bed and you
feel hungry also this is something that
you can eat because it's also just uh
lighter and you can just whip it up yes
yeah exactly nice and is there uh is
this something that you ate a lot back
home or is it uh uh back home not a lot
because um there's just variety of food
there so you would want to like eat as
different varieties of food as possible
but here yeah time is really limited
yeah um so yeah this is something that I
eat here very regularly okay um let's
let's start off we'll do some some prep
for the dish and then we'll keep
chatting um right so let's just talk
about what we have for the ingredients
here so it's tomatoes peppers garlic
pretty simple ingredients here yeah and
the the the basic ingredient here is
eggs so let us not forget that that is
the backbone of the dish yeah but uh you
can you can add any ingredient of your
choice but uh I really like the the pepp
ERS because if you're really into
fitness and working out if you happy
sport they can really help with uh
recovery they can also prevent arthritis
as well okay right so it's h it's not
just the taste but also the nutritious
value that you can get from the dishes
and eggs and the protein and everything
um so so how do we do this let's let's
go through and see what we're we just
what kind of CH how I don't I have no
idea so let's go through yeah so it
depends on how much time you have if
like if you have time and you're you're
preparing it after work um you might
want to start with frying the eggs first
and then add one ingredient at a time uh
but I would assume that we are all
living at a very limited time yeah so
what I'm going to do is uh like chop up
all the the ingredients and break the
eggs and mix everything and put
everything in and just let them cut let
it cook okay and so let's let's chop
some stuff up um what what do we want to
start let us start with tomatoes first
okay okay is this now I I was I was
purchasing the ingredients for this is
this the right kind of like do you use a
particular kind of tomato for these or
just regular Tomatoes I know there's
like that's that's a great question
because um like if for folks who are
eating ethnic food um they would know
that you'll have to just work with
whatever you find right because a lot of
a lot of ingredients that you would use
back home you might not find them here
yeah but also it is an opportunities
like I'm not like complaining about this
this is like actually is good okay okay
so yeah yeah okay well let's let's do
that how many do we need is this this is
this is this is enough so let's just
make sure that we will uh be able to
feed everybody so okay four is is enough
okay yeah just grab a knife and and uh
yeah so the the goal here is to try to
um to like to chop it up as small as
possible so that you want everything um
to to blend in right okay okay and you
don't want like big this this knife
might be better let me see okay yeah and
you will need also a very sharp knife
yes yes for the tomatoes yes um we
haven't been to the to the knife
sharpener in a little
um so you're from Sudan yes and uh if
you wouldn't mind while you're chopping
if you can if we can do them both at the
same time uh tell me a little bit about
um what H you're you're just where
you're from and and a little bit of your
story from uh what what brought you here
you're you're in abbottford now yeah I
know it's a long story um and also I'll
just let everybody know um that muhi has
uh a really great chapter in this book
here it's called Uh geographies of the
heart and it's a it's a bunch of stories
from newcomers to Canada um some some
very incredible stories and his story is
in here and uh there's you know a lot uh
of amazing things in this book so you
should check this book out um and if you
want to find out even more about his
story it's it's all in this book here
well not all of it several pages of it
I'm sure it could spill up quite a lot
more but um yeah so yeah what's what
what brought you here and how how long
what age were you when you moved and I
know you you've lived a few different
places so yeah so um as you mentioned
Mark I'm originally from Sudan um I left
the country as a a political Refugee I
was a student at the University of Juba
in cartoon the capital city um and
because of my political SL religious
activities at the University campus I um
got into issues with the the sudin
National Security man and I had to leave
the country for safety okay I left Sudan in
in
2004 July 2004 with my wife and our
oldest daughter um to Egypt which is a
neighboring country
yeah um and and applied for Asylum
seeking in in um in Egypt we we stayed
there I stayed there for three and a
half years yeah before um I had to flee
again to Israel because it wasn't also
safe for me in in Egypt and I left my
wife and um our two daughters so our
second daughter was actually born in in
Egypt okay um so because I'm a sudanes
national I could not enter into Israel
legally because Sudan and Israel are at
the state of
hostility um for a long time so I had to
get myself smuggled into the country um
about two years later leaving my my
family behind actually two years later
we were able to to reunite as my wife
and two daughters were able to also get
themselves smuggled into Israel and we
got reunited there um together with left
we we lived there for 5 years before we
were privately sponsored by two Canadian
couples uh one couple lives here in
absur and other couple lives in um in
Edmonton Alberta okay um so we came here
in 2012 okay may of 2012 so it has been
in in May it's going to be 13 years in
Canada okay so you were a long time in
between though you like because you how
old were you when you when you left
Sudan you're really asking me to do the
math we trying to know how we're almost
the same age actually yeah I was 24 24
okay and so so you had had a long period
of being in between before you came here
yes um now I know also well let's let's
get back to the to the that's enough
Tomatoes there yeah this is enough
tomato we decided first we are going to
go with four but it's a lot so it is
three now okay hopefully it's enough
good yeah we can we can you know it's
it's just for a we don't have to feed
the the entire we just it's just a taste
um so how do we same thing with the
peppers we're going to chop them up real
but just half of it because it's really
big yeah yeah so I I know from from
reading your story that you know and
this is a big uh thing with a lot of uh
guests on the show is that there's
somebody you know or or some people who
really um had a big uh part of your
story and in in in getting you here in
um you know in helping you um you know
through and I I know you had uh your
sponsors and that kind of thing but it
seems like you had you know kind of
several instances of of meeting them and
coming back and and um things kind of
seemed a little bit meant to be for that
um so yeah you want to tell me a little
bit about that situation yeah I think I
should start by telling you about uh how
uh we him to be a friend to our our
Canadian friends and sponsors yeah so
our sponsors names the husband name is
is Dean and the wife's yeah his wife's
name is Glenny so uh Dean and Glenny
twidle these are um retired Canadian
teachers yeah who came to Egypt to train
teachers at my school so when I left the
country Sudan to Egypt yeah um um there
I actually found that sud's kids
and African kids in general were not
allowed to attend um Egyptian public
school okay um so it was um like
discriminatory yeah for them and I
thought of doing something and I started
a center for like Educational Center for
kids uh I can't call it a school because
um we didn't have the um like the all
the certification needed to to call it a
school but I was an educational center
basically to prepare students by
teaching them basic um subjects like
math English Arabic um so that U because
their families also were awaiting
resettlement in the west yeah so it was
basically a kind of um education to
prepare them for better education um
when they get resettled to to the West
so I started a school there
and so most of the teachers that I had
there were not qualified like they were
not trained they were educated but not
trained as teachers yeah so um I wanted
to I consider some professional
development opportunities for them but
also because I didn't have a budget to
to hire experts to come and train the
teachers I reach out to one of the
international churches in um in um in
Egypt the church is called the
Evangelical International Church okay
and they were able to link me with um
some teachers in the West
yeah and part of that cohort of um
teachers who came to uh to train my
staff were um Dean and Glenny ttles from
Canada and we from there our friendship
started actually I I also ended up being
a student in the teachers program
because I wasn't even trained myself to
be a teacher guess what I was the school principal
