hinese New Year benefit for Yip Foundation
The annual Chinese New Year benefit for the Nathan Yip Foundation moves to the University of Denver Cable Center, 2000 Buchtel Blvd., this year. The traditional celebration features lion dancers and a performance by Shu Ying Li, who recently made her New York City Opera debut in the title role of “Madama Butterfly.” Celebrating the Year of the Dog, attendees will dine on food by Johnny Hsu, owner of Imperial Chinese Seafood Restaurant and The Palace Chinese Restaurant. The menu will include sesame pockets, steamed spring rolls, wasabi fish egg with wonton, and the salmon salad featured on Page 3F of today’s Food section. The main course of walnut prawns, orange beef, braised duck, baked vegetables with curry sauce and Yang Cho fried rice will be followed by egg custard and sweet rice cake. Tickets are $120; for information, go to nathanyipfoundation.com or call 303-850-4785. The Nathan Yip Foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy and Linda Yip after they lost their only child, Nathan, in an automobile accident. The past three years, the Nathan Yip Foundation has raised more than $200,000 for projects in China, Mexico and Africa.
Enrollment deadline for “Crab College” approaches (no SAT scores needed)
If you failed to complete your college studies, or bailed out of grad school, it’s not too late to get a degree from McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant “Crab College.” Opened just in time to kick off the high point in the 2006 Dungeness crab season, it’s not exactly accredited, but it could be fun. All you have to do is enroll before Monday. On Feb. 1, the staff will prepare an entire Dungeness crab for your 6 p.m. dinner. In “Crab Psychology,” you can analyze your crab-eating personality (and you probably didn’t even know you had one). To top it off, you’ll depart with your very own Crab College Diploma. McCormick & Schmick’s, Denver Tech Center, 8100 E. Union Ave.; for reservations call 720-200-9339.
