Chengdu Panda Asian Food Festival Held in Chinese City Chengdu

On the morning of May 15, the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC) commenced at Chinese capital Beijing. As a complementary program of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, the Chengdu Panda Asian Food Festival (CPAFF) also kicked off on the same day...

Release time : 2019-05-21 05:59:00

source : PRNewswire

On the morning of May 15, the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC) commenced at Chinese capital Beijing. As a complementary program of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, the Chengdu Panda Asian Food Festival (CPAFF) also kicked off on the same day, according to the Organizing Committee of the Chengdu Panda Asian Food Festival (CPAFF).

In a dialogue of civilizations, a dish is worth a thousand words. Chengdu, this home to 16 million people and central city in western China, is undertaking a campaign surrounding the core theme "great food, search for fragrance, showcase our respective beauty and admire each other's beauty" and comprised of 45 activities such as culinary cultural summit, "journey for the search of fragrance" art of living experience tour, exchanges between well-known Chinese and foreign chefs, culinary culture special exhibition, and culinary cultural theme days for eight Asian nations and regions. This is a massive Asian culinary carnival for citizens and tourists alike, and an event that uses foods as medium to promote the exchanges and mutual appreciation between the civilizations of Asia.

On the evening of the 14th, Chengdu began with the "Tianfu Home Banquet" as the welcoming dinner of the Chengdu Panda Asian Culinary Festival, which enabled friends from afar to experience the feelings of "home" conveyed in Sichuan culinary culture during their very first meal. With classic Sichuan dishes making up the main line-up, guests were treated to 16 "dishes often eaten at home" such as fuqi feipian spicy beef and beef offal, twice-cooked pork, mapo tofu and camphor leaf and tea leaf-smoked duck, which were selected based on votes submitted by citizens.

As the saying goes, great foods in China, great tastes in Chengdu. As the first "city of gastronomy" in Asia as named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the