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September 23 & 24, 2011

Westin Memorial City, Houston, TX

Registration Information:
Early Bird (ends Aug 30) – $225
General – $300
Student – $150

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The much awaited biennial conference will be held at the Westin – Memorial City in Houston. Save the date information can be downloaded here.

You can find out more details on registration and program information by downloading 2011 Summit Program Info Sheet.

The 2011 Summit – Return to Your Center – focuses on building leadership capacity across all areas of your life. Workshops and panels cover career development skills, financial and business savvy, health, and other issues of concern to AA/PI women.

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President & Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo Inc; Helen Zia, Author, Former Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine, Community Activist

Fast Facts:

• Participation is open to EVERYONE
• Leadership Summits have been held since 1998
• 2009 Summit Presenting Sponsor and Location: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington

Please register online at http://2011nationalsummithouston.eventbrite.com

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The Austin Asian American, Capital City African American and Greater Austin Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, referred to as MECA, along with the City of Austin, are hosting the 5th Annual Multicultural Career & Opportunities Expo on August 3rd 2011, at the Holiday Inn Austin Midtown, 6000 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX 78752.

This event is free but you must RSVP at www.gahcc.org/mecaexpo to RSVP.

Companies attending include:
Accurate CAD & Technical Services, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Austin Film School, Austin Police Department, BMP Radio, Boy Scouts of America, Campus2Careers, Capital IDEA, CASA of Travis County, Cintas-Round Rock, City of Austin, City of Austin Fire Department, Entreave, Evins Personnel Consultants, Inc., Farm Credit Bank of Texas, Gary Job Corps, GSD&M, H&R Block, Job Source, Legal Zoom, Lifeworks, Merrill Lynch, Modern Woodmen of America, Sears Holding Corporation, Southwest Keys, Southwest National Bank, Temple Island, The Learning Pad, Time Warner Cable, Travis County, Univision Telefutura, Univision Radio, Wells Fargo, Whole Foods, Workforce Solutions, and more…

Free classes will also be offered on resume writing, interview skills, job searching techniques and international trade.

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8:00-11:00pm

Austin Karaoke

BYOB and food!

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6:00-8:00pm at Nanami Sushi

This month’s TAPpy Hour will be at Nanami Sushi! We get 30% off food

Check them out here: http://www.nanamisushi.com/

See you all there! We will still be passing out our limited edition TAP-ATX Reward Cards for this event.

In addition, we have a KTV Mixer the next night (Friday 5/27)

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YLC is seeking friendly, energetic, and enthusiastic college students and young professionals to mentor high school students at this year’s YLC conference. Utilizing the talents and experiences of college students and young professionals to facilitate small group discussions and to serve as mentors of the high school participants, the conference incorporates various topic-related exercises and activities to enhance and reinforce leadership skills and ideals.

This year’s program titled “Don’t Hate, Innovate” will encourage students to be creative while using innovative methods to solve problems. The 2011 program will focus on leadership through being resilient, possessing knowledge, taking risks, and collaborating while thinking outside the box.

For mentor applications and more information, please visit http://ylc.net/mentors.

If you were wondering how to get involved or how to give back to your community, this is the perfect opportunity that only requires two weekends in Houston during June. This is a wonderful chance to build your network, while also contributing to a great cause. There is a brief interview process and limited mentor spots, so please apply soon! The deadline to apply is May 18.

Applicants will be required to attend all of the following:

• One Meet & Greet to be scheduled with the Mentor Director, Tommy Ma. Meet & Greets to be held every Saturday (April 30 – May 21) from 2-4 pm at Lemongrass Cafe located at 5109 Bellaire Blvd (cross street is South Rice) Bellaire, TX 77401.
• Mentor Retreat, June 4-5, 2011
• Conference, June 24-26, 2011 at Rice University.

For more information, please contact:

Tommy Ma
Mentor Director
Youth Leadership Council 2011
mentor@ylc.net

My parents are both from Taiwan. I grew up listening to post WWII stories from the mother country – you know the ones about working hard on the farm, walking barefoot to school, and barely having enough to eat. That last point is very important – because they didn’t have much food when they were children, my parents appreciate food and view it much more fondly than your average Joe. I have a feeling that most people in Taiwan have a reverence for food in the same way my parents do.

So where can you find authentic Taiwanese food in Austin where they care about food quality as much as they do “back home”? My favorite Taiwanese place in Austin is Rice Bowl Cafe, where you can get a little taste of the “motherland” here in the Live Music Capital of the World.

I’m going to be honest. I really I want to bring special attention to Rice Bowl Cafe not only because the food is great and the owners are super nice. I have another motive… I don’t think many people know about this place yet and I really want Rice Bowl to get a lot more business. I would feel terrible if a place that makes it like mom does didn’t succeed – then where would I get my Taiwanese food fix???

So where is this culinary hidden gem? This diamond in the rough?
Rice Bowl Cafe is conveniently located on Braker and Lamar across from the Chinatown shopping complex, in a slightly out of the way spot next to Pho Dan.

What should I eat there?
1. They have the best beef noodle soup in Austin and they make their own hand made noodles. This to me, is 3x better than your standard Vietnamese Pho for the same price. The broth is full of flavor but isn’t greasy, so that you can taste the flavor from the thick, firm and chewy (a quality known simply as “Q”) noodles. Make sure to ask for the pickled vegetables on the side.

Unanimously among my Taiwanese friends here in Austin, we like the beef noodle soup at Rice Bowl best (way better than Coco’s or Tapioca House). Also, ask anyone who has lived in Taiwan where the best Taiwanese food is in Austin, they will tell you this place.

2. Rice Bowl Cafe is inexpensive and the portions are generous – you will be full and happy at the end of the meal. Some even say that one dish is enough for 2 meals.

3. They have some really authentic dishes on the menu that are not part of every other Chinese restaurant’s standard take out menu. The fried chicken with rice, green onion pie and fried pork chop (kind of like Japanese katsu) are all the same as in the mother country. I also really like the stir fried rice noodles, which are just like my mom used to make, and the delicious snow pea leaves.

Green Onion Pie from Rice Bowl Cafe

If you like green onion pie, you will like the beef roll, which is a green onion pie with beef inside, then rolled up. It could be a whole meal and it’s only 5-6 bucks.

Rice Bowl does have some standard Chinese fare, but I usually stick to the real deal.

4. Bizarre yet very tasty foods! Rice Bowl serves an entire pork knuckle (slow braised) which comes with a big bowl of noodles in a clear broth. Also, the pigs ears are quite tasty if you have never tried them. They have beef tripe / honeycomb as well.

Pickled pigs ears, a bit gelatinous but delciously porky in flavor. A must try for the curious bizarre foods eater.

5. The “ethnic food rule” – If you go to any ethnic type restaurant, it’s usually a very good sign if a lot of people of that ethnicity are eating there and enjoying the food. Rice Bowl cafe passes this rule with flying colors – I always hear my parents’ mother tongue in the background when I eat at Rice Bowl.

Also, if you check Yelp’s reviews of Rice Bowl Cafe, you’ll see that the Taiwanese people on the board give it 4-5 stars, shower it with praise, and call it the most authentic place in Austin.

I’m done making my case – if you can’t tell, I highly recommend this place! Go get some Rice Bowl Cafe 

As always, happy tasting!
Peter

We know you’re out there! So come on out to celebrate with us at Sushi Sake on Wednesday April 27, 2011 from 6-8pm for out first ever TAPpy Hour & Opening Event for TAP-ATX. We were able to finagle the nice people at Sushi Sake to giving us an entire section of the restaurant and extending their coveted Happy Hour menu prices just for all our TAP-ATX friends!

Check out the TAPpy Hour @ Sushi Sake menu HERE. Also, make sure you click attending on the FB event,  join the TAP-ATX Facebook Group and follow our Twitter.