Italian chef in China creates fusion dishes for Spring Festival

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As the Spring Festival approaches, an Italian chef running a dessert shop in the city of Chongqing, China, has prepared special New Year dishes, blending Italian cuisine with the culinary and cultural traditions of Chongqing.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Hello everyone, I'm Franco. I am an Italian and I've been in Chongqing for seven years.

00:06 I opened an Italian dessert shop.

00:09 The Chinese New Year is coming and today I will make a New Year Eve dinner

00:15 that combines Chongqing and Italian characteristics.

00:19 Jiayou!

00:21 The Italian salami is quite big and the fat is a little bit smaller than this one.

00:39 And usually the sausage should be cooked, the Chinese sausage should be cooked

00:45 and the salami you can also eat like this because it's seasoned.

00:51 Now we are preparing all the ingredients.

00:55 We mix a little bit the flavor of the taste of Italian style and Chinese style.

01:05 Pizza! The new pizza for New Year, Spring Festival.

01:12 I like it. The sausage is sweet. The combination is very interesting.

01:21 A new kind of pizza. Fusion pizza. Chinese and Italian.

01:28 Chongqing Ren, Shinkun Damajan, Nekui Tsumajan.

01:39 I've been in Chongqing for the Spring Festival about five times.

01:43 So what impressed me more is the light, the decoration of the street.

01:47 Because it's very nice, very brilliant and so different from the Italian style.

01:54 So that one impressed me a lot.

01:56 Now we make the majang shape of the cake because we want to enjoy the Spring Festival with the Chinese friends.

02:07 I always say that Chongqing now is my second hometown.

02:13 New York City, USA

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