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Food

Mooncakes in a variety of colors and flavors sit in a display at Berkeley City College on Oct. 8, 2025. API LEAD students traded mooncakes for trivia to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with the BCC community

BCC students celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes and community

Though typically associated with Chinese culture, mooncakes are a staple of the seasonal celebration for many East and Southeast Asian countries.
Dustin Chu, Staff Writer October 28, 2025
From Oct. 6 to 8, students with the Asian Pacific Islander Leadership Empowerment Adversity Diversity (API LEAD) program and the Society of Scholars handed out mooncakes in flavors like pandan, red bean, lotus seed, and pistachio while sharing the meaning behind one of Asia’s oldest harvest festivals. 
CHRONICLING CHINESE CUISINE: R' Noodles

CHRONICLING CHINESE CUISINE: R’ Noodles

Bay Area Food Adventures
Isis Piccillo, Editor in Chief March 5, 2020

This year the San Francisco Chronicle released Many Chinas, Many Tables--a guide to regional Chinese cuisines. Historically, a large portion of Chinese immigrants have come from southern Chinese provinces,...

Downtown Berkeley Sliver Pizzeria offers only vegetarian pizzas with a rotating daily menu.

Berkeley’s Sliver for students on a budget

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer October 20, 2019

The only thing that can beat the smell of pizza fresh out of the oven is the taste of pizza fresh out of the oven. One of the many restaurants available to Berkeley City College students is Sliver...

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