STORY: Chinese chef promotes Spring Festival food in Spain's Barcelona
SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 21, 2024
DATELINE: Feb. 23, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:40
LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of people walking on Las Ramblas in Barcelona
2. various of a cookery workshop
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): PENG WENBIN, Chinese chef
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): LOURDES ROMERO, Barcelona resident
5. various of Chinese restaurants in Barcelona
6. various of a cookery workshop

STORYLINE:

As part of the Spring Festival celebrations in Spain's northeastern city of Barcelona, a Chinese chef gave a masterclass on Wednesday on how to make Jiaozi, or dumplings.

Organized by the Confucius Institute of Barcelona, the award-winning chef, who has been living in Spain for 15 years, presented the cookery workshop to an enthusiastic group of Spanish people in the city's iconic La Boqueria market.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): PENG WENBIN, Chinese chef
"We are constantly learning more about the food, customs and culture of other countries, and so we wanted to take advantage of this period celebrating the Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, to show how to make a typical dish eaten at this time of year."

As Peng made the necessary preparations, the people who had signed up for the masterclass began to queue up outside, including Barcelona resident Lourdes Romero, who told Xinhua that she visited China three months ago and loved the food.

SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): LOURDES ROMERO, Barcelona resident
"Gastronomy in Chinese culture is very important, especially now during the New Year period when the whole family comes together, and they share lots of dishes, one of which is Jiaozi (dumpling), which we're learning to make this evening."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Barcelona, Spain.
(XHTV)