Correspondent Wang Ling'er) Jing Jing is tasteful and moving. On February 19 and 20, German time, the "2024 Walking Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" Frankfurt Station event was successfully concluded. The Chu Cuisine Promotion Group, created by the Hubei Culinary Hotel Industry Association and the Wuhan Catering Industry Association, presented a wonderful feast of Chu cuisine for more than 400 Chinese and foreign guests at the 2024 Spring Festival Reception held by the Chinese Consulate General in Frankfurt and the Chu Cuisine Tasting Banquet held by the Sino-German Culture and Art Association.
Yesterday, the Chu cuisine promotion group returned triumphantly, Sun Taoxiang, president of Hubei Culinary Hotel Industry Association, Lu Yongliang, executive president, and Liu Guoliang, president of Wuhan Catering Industry Association, held a simple welcome ceremony at Hankou Railway Station.
The Chinese Consul General in Frankfurt praised Wuhan snacks
The Chinese New Year Reception is an important event held by Chinese embassies and consulates abroad during the Spring Festival every year. As an important sub-brand of the "Happy New Year" of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, "Walking Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" has been held in many countries around the world since 2016, and has been well received by mainstream people and people in various countries, and has become an important platform for promoting Chinese food culture and promoting cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and the West.
At 7 p.m. on February 19, German time, the 2024 Spring Festival Reception for the Year of the Dragon, jointly organized by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Frankfurt, the city of Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was held at the Frankfurt City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and more than 300 local important guests from the city of Frankfurt**, business circles, social organizations, and overseas Chinese groups attended the dinner on the same day.
At the dinner site, four Wuhan special snacks made by nine Chu chefs, including Xiong Yifu from Sanwu Alcohol Hotel, Zhang Chunming from Dongxin Hotel, Huang Zhangwen from Little Blue Whale Hotel, Chen Jinhong from Lihuayuan Hotel, Chen Chongzhi from Kowloon Hotel, Xiao Shuqiang of Xinnong Beef, Xiao Yukang from Sijimei Soup Bun, Ying Xiaoyong from Fatty Shrimp Zhuang, and Li Feng from Newcell Heyi Hotel, were warmly welcomed and highly appreciated by the guests.
The authentic Wuhan snacks were also recognized by Consul General Huang Yuyang of the Chinese Consulate General in Frankfurt, who spoke highly of the Wuhan snacks of the day, and said with a smile: "I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to grab it, so I quietly told my colleagues early on to help me keep a bowl of hot dry noodles!" The consul general happily said that if you have the opportunity, you must go to Wuhan to enjoy the cherry blossoms and taste the food!
Many foreign guests kept praising Wuhan snacks while eating, and they expressed their love for Wuhan snacks in Chinese: hot dry noodles are delicious, soup dumplings are delicious, bean skin is really fragrant, glutinous rice chicken is awesome, and Chu cuisine is very good!
In less than half an hour, nearly 200 servings of three fresh bean skins, glutinous rice chicken, fresh meat soup buns and more than 300 servings of hot dry noodles were snatched up, some foreign friends ate three servings of bean skin in one go, some ate two bowls of hot dry noodles in a row, and some ate two glutinous rice chicken and two fresh meat soup buns in one go.
In order to let foreign friends feel the traditional Chinese Spring Festival culture, the Chu cuisine delegation also carefully prepared a New Year's red envelope for each guest, which was a bookmark showing ancient Chinese poetry and 24 solar terms culture, and this exquisite gift brought every guest touched and surprised.
At the same time, the Chu Cai delegation also specially brought a special Chinese New Year gift from China to Consul General Huang Yuyang and the Mayor of Frankfurt City, Joseph, "Selected Works of Chinese Solar Term Dishes", when Consul General Huang Yuyang and Mr. Joseph received this gift, they felt very happy and expressed their heartfelt gratitude!
The Chu cuisine tasting banquet amazed the guests in Frankfurt
On the evening of February 20, 2024, German time, the "Happy Spring Festival - Walking Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" Chu cuisine tasting banquet at Zhenxing Restaurant on the banks of the Main in Frankfurt, Frankfurt, was co-sponsored by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Frankfurt, the World Federation of Chinese Cuisine Industry, the Association of Sino-German Lesbian Culture and Art Association, the Hubei Culinary Hotel Industry Association, and the Wuhan Catering Industry Association. Mr. Wu Pengfei, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Frankfurt, Ms. Claudia Klink, Vice President of the Frankfurt City Council, and more than 50 people, including Xinhua News Agency, CCTV CGTN, European Times, China-Today, Huashang Daily, Phoenix Network and other official **, attended the dinner.
Wu Pengfei, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Frankfurt, first of all, on behalf of the Consulate General in Frankfurt, extended New Year's greetings to the majority of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese leaders, and extended his best wishes to the guests of the dinner! In his speech, he said: "The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the most important and sumptuous 'reunion dinner' for family reunion and celebration of the New Year in the Spring Festival. Tonight, we are fortunate to invite celebrity chefs from Hubei, China, to bring us Chu cuisine, one of the top ten traditional Chinese cuisines, and they will present a unique feast for all guests. I believe that while everyone is feasting, this dazzling Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will surely enhance the guests' understanding of Chinese culture and promote exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and German cultures. ”
Then, Chen Zhibing, the head of the Chu cuisine delegation, said: "I am very happy to come to the financial center of Europe, the rich cultural history, and the beautiful Frankfurt" He introduced: "Hubei is in China, the position of Tianyuan, the province of a thousand lakes, the hometown of fish and rice, steamed vegetables and simmering soup Chu kitchen is the best, Chu cuisine is nutritious and healthy, we will bring the tasteful and moving Chu cuisine to the Zhenxing Hotel in Frankfurt, through the "walking Chinese New Year's Eve dinner" for food exchanges, today's guests taste the dishes, is the classic Chu cuisine, It is also the candidate dishes of Wuhan's 'Top Ten Famous Dishes and Top Ten Famous Spots' that are being selected, all of which are carefully cooked by the chefs of well-known restaurants in Wuhan, and I sincerely hope that the guests present will give evaluations. On behalf of the provincial and municipal catering associations, we warmly invite all the guests present to go to Hubei to climb Wudang Mountain, see the Three Gorges Dam, visit the Yellow Crane Tower, take the bosom friend, taste Wuchang fish, and eat hot dry noodles! ”
Chinese culture runs through the entire "Walking Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner": Chinese red scarves are given to guests, red menus for Chinese New Year's Eve dinners, good wishes for the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, and traditional Chinese classics are heard**.
On behalf of the organizers, Zheng Aizhen, President of the Sino-German Les Mills Culture and Art Association, sincerely thanked all the guests for attending, and especially thanked the chefs from Wuhan, China, who traveled thousands of miles to Frankfurt to showcase the delicious taste of Jingchu for this "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner". She said: "The Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, and it is also a cultural treasure that we have inherited for thousands of years. It is hoped that through this event, more people can understand the charm of Chinese New Year culture and feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese food culture. There is a German proverb "Liebe Geht Durch den Magen" (Love enters from the stomach), Germans believe in 'love on the tip of the tongue', and tonight's food can ignite the passion of friendship and culture between China and Germany, and seek common development. Food not only satisfies our taste buds, but also promotes friendship between the people of China and Germany. ”
Subsequently, with the accompaniment of the classic Hubei songs "Honghu Water Waves", "Dragon Boat Tune", "My Motherland" and "Joyful Yangyang" performed by Frankfurt Chinese artists, the theme of Chu cuisine "Walking Chinese New Year's Eve" kicked off.
Pork ribs and lotus root soup, lotus seed steamed pork, Huangpi three fresh, Taurus Ganoderma lucidum duck, braised prawns, pearl balls, Sijimei soup buns, three fresh bean skins, Caidian Xinnong beef, coral mandarin fish, best mushroom soup, Songzi golden chicken, lotus root clips, spring rolls ......When the exquisite Chu dishes were brought out, they amazed every guest present.
Many guests said that they had never eaten such delicious Chinese food, and they couldn't stop every dish being delicious. As for the pork ribs and lotus root soup with the most Hubei characteristics, every guest was still unsatisfied, and many guests were unwilling to let go of even the last drop, saying: "I must go to Wuhan, Hubei Province, and drink such a delicious pork rib lotus root soup again."
After the meal, the foreign guests received a special "homework" to score each dish of the tasting banquet, and they reminisced about the collision between Chu cuisine and taste buds, thinking that Chu cuisine was both delicious and beautiful, and it was also very delicious; While carefully scoring each dish, the rating sheet is full of praise, which not only contains the exquisite Chu cuisine banquet presented by Chu chefs, but also lays a solid foundation for the development of Chu cuisine in Europe.
The Chu cuisine promotion group has been recognized and appreciated by all the guests, and they all hope that Chu cuisine can often go to Frankfurt for exchanges in the future, so that Chu cuisine can bloom in Germany and Europe!