STORY: Italian chef in China creates fusion dishes for Spring Festival
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 24, 2024
DATELINE: Feb. 5, 2024
LENGTH: 0:02:13
LOCATION: CHONGQING, China
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Italian chef
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
6. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing

STORYLINE:

As the Spring Festival approaches, an Italian chef who runs a dessert shop in China's Chongqing has prepared special New Year dishes that combine Italian cuisine with Chongqing culinary and cultural traditions.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
"Hello, everyone. I'm Franco. I am Italian, and I've been in Chongqing for seven years. I open an Italian dessert shop. The Chinese New Year is coming. And today, I will make a New Year's Eve dinner that combines Chongqing and Italian characteristics. Jia You (good luck)!"

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
"The Italian salami is a little quite big and fat, and it (Chinese sausage) is a little bit smaller than this one. And usually, the sausage should be cooked, the Chinese sausage should be cooked, and the salami, you can also eat like this, because it is seasoned. Now we are preparing all the ingredients. We mix a little bit of the flavor of the taste of Italian style and Chinese style."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
"Pizza, the new pizza for the New Year, the Spring Festival, I like it. The sausage, it's sweet. The combination is very interesting, very interesting. A new kind of pizza, fusion pizza, Chinese and Italian."

SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
"People in Chongqing like playing mahjong, and here you could also enjoy our mahjong cake."

SOUNDBITE 5 (English): FRANCO BERGAMINO, Owner of a dessert shop in Chongqing
"I've been in Chongqing during the Spring Festival about five times. So what impressed me more is the light, the decoration of the street, because it is very nice, very brilliant and so different from the Italian style. So that one impressed me a lot. Now we make the mahjong shape of the cake, because we want to enjoy the Spring Festival with Chinese friends. I always say that Chongqing now is my second hometown."

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