STORY: 1st Hungary Food & Cultural Festival held in north China
DATELINE: June 24, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:09
LOCATION: LANGFANG, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the festival
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG YIFAN, Visitor
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BERETVAS ANDRAS, Hungarian chef
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CLAUDIA YANG, Chief Executive, Silk Road International Arts Center

STORYLINE:

The first Hungary Food & Cultural Festival was held in Langfang, north China's Hebei Province.

The event held on Thursday and Friday attracted thousands of visitors, who came and enjoyed Hungarian cuisines and folk cultures.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG YIFAN, Visitor
"I've tasted a lot of Hungarian food, such as potato beef soup, fried fritters, and so on. I also watched a lot of Hungarian performances, which are very wonderful."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BERETVAS ANDRAS, Hungarian chef
"So we have prepared 15 different dishes from Hungary for this cultural event. And there's also some very nice red wine from Hungary. Hope you can all try. And hope that in the future, we have more opportunities to have more exchanges like this between Hungary and China."

Activities including concerts, poetry recitations, and cultural salons also showed the exchanges between the Chinese and Hungarian people.

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CLAUDIA YANG, Chief Executive, Silk Road International Arts Center
"We are very honored to have our first (festival) in 2023. Next year, we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary. So we are going to have many programs ready for our Chinese audience to explore Hungary."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Langfang, China.
(XHTV)