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Episode 10: Mexico

2024-03-26
Mexico, located in North America, gives a warm and energetic impression which similar to the authentic Mexican cuisine is mainly made of colourful peppers and tomatoes. Mexicans love spicy which can use fresh peppers to make a variety of sauces to match appetizers and soups and main course. Pepper and corn are the two most important crops in Mexico. Compared with the staple food of Asian society is rice, the staple food of Mexicans is tortilla. Tortillas of different shapes and heating methods are combined with different fillings to form a variety of snacks.

Alejandro Ramirez Perez from Mexico City traveled around Europe, America and Asian countries. He came to Hong Kong as a main chef in 2016. This time we invited him to introduce several special tortillas, homesickness Mexican Bunuelos de rodilla, and cuisine shown at important festivals, cooking with mole sauce. Alejandro will also share his inclusion and adaption into local life in Hong Kong and look forward to planning for his future career.

Mexico cuisine :
1. Bunuelos de rodilla 2.Crab tostadas 3. Enmoladas de pollo 4. Tacos al pastor 5. Tacos de Cochinita 6. Fish tacos

A World Of Taste: Kitchen Dialogues

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.
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