The fourth Chinese Food Culture Festival is held in Gold Coast (Photography of Violet Ma)
People`s Daily, Gold Coast, October 20-recently, the "fourth Chinese Food and Culture Festival" jointly sponsored by the Confucius Institute for Tourism at Griffith University, the Queensland Chinese Federation and the China Huaiyang vegetable Group, was held on Australia`s Gold Coast. This event mainly by showing and inviting people to taste Huaiyang cuisine, more Australians understand Chinese food and Chinese culture. Golden Coast Mayor Tom Tate, Chinese Deputy Consul General Chen Li in Brisbane attended hundreds of guests.
As one of the four traditional Chinese dishes, Huaiyang cuisine originated in Yangzhou, Huai`an, and began in the Spring and Autumn period. Food materials to local river fresh, lake fresh, fresh and season-oriented vegetables, emphasis on knife work and fire. The event also invited a team of cooks from China Huaiyang Food Group to select Australian local ingredients to present Chinese delicacies to the local guests with the freshest ingredients.
Luo Guijin, a special professor at Huaiyang College of Food Studies, said that the biggest difference between Huaiyang cuisine and other dishes was its unique concept of "harmony, essence, Qing, and new". In the production process, highlight the flavor, pay attention to food coordination and collocation, at the same time in knife work, fire innovation.
Liu Chaojie, director of the Confucius Institute for Tourism at Griffith University, said: "Food is an important part of Chinese culture and it is hoped that through such events, more Australians will begin to taste food and understand the Chinese culture behind it."
The event also focused on the combination of Chinese and Western, for each dish with the corresponding wine. Lannister Group founder and marketing director Wu Hongyi also specially recommended some collocation in the field. `We have been trying to combine wine with dishes to enhance the taste of food, `said (zac caudo), president of the group.
One local diner said: "this is my first time to taste Huaiyang cuisine, very light taste, in the process of matching with red wine, to make the taste more rich." (Violet Ma)
