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2024-01-30
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Episode 2: Italy
2024-01-30
Italian restaurants can be found everywhere in Hong Kong. Classic Italian dishes like pasta and pizza are very popular. In fact, there is so much more to explore when it comes to Italian cuisine. As a native Italian, Massimo concludes the characteristics of Italian cuisine with 3 S’s: Simple, Seasonal and Soul. The best dishes can be made by using simple and seasonal ingredients and retaining their authenticity. Massimo immigrated to Hong Kong more than 30 years ago. He rooted here after meeting his wife Elisa, and he tried hard learning Cantonese in order to integrate into the life in Hong Kong. However, the taste of his hometown still lingered in his mind, and he wanted to promote it. He opened a restaurant with his wife 20 years ago specialising in fresh ingredients and healthy dishes, in the hope of promoting the food culture of Italy to Hong Kong people.
Dishes introduced:
Orecchiette Pugliese style, with anchovy & cherry tomatoes
Salt-crusted whole seabass with thyme
Dishes introduced:
Orecchiette Pugliese style, with anchovy & cherry tomatoes
Salt-crusted whole seabass with thyme
Food is a fundamental need of human beings and a common language between races and cultures. French cheese, Kosher bread, Turkish kebap, Spanish tortilla, Brazilian chicken pie, Russian soup Borscht and a lot more are always on the list of country signature food. Placing dishes around the globe on you dining desk brings you a brand new journey towards to world. As an international city, Hong Kong has such a diverse cultures and countless choices of food from different countries. You can find restaurants always ready for your enjoyable meals on roads and alleys. For sure native chefs are the key of presenting the features of food cultures and backgrounds. Hong Kong has been alluring foreign chefs to stay, work and live here. How can they fit themselves into the community through delicious food? In what way can they keep the characteristics of their own cultural cuisines and suit them to the tastes of Hong Kong people at the same time? How can they balance the variations of food culture between places? Are they having a different lifestyle in Hong Kong comparing to their home countries?
‘A World Of Taste: Kitchen Dialogues’, a 14-episode half-hour series programme, is going to bring you a further understanding on foreign cultures through fabulous country cuisines in Hong Kong as well as how social inclusion applies, the livings and social involvement of native chefs here.
‘A World Of Taste: Kitchen Dialogues’, a 14-episode half-hour series programme, is going to bring you a further understanding on foreign cultures through fabulous country cuisines in Hong Kong as well as how social inclusion applies, the livings and social involvement of native chefs here.
