New York, Rome October 5 The smell of China under the moonlight in Italy.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jingyan Zhang Xinwen

On the night of early autumn in Milan, Italy, the moon shines on the roofs and rocks of the city. In the quiet neighborhood of Brera, a rainbow sign with Chinese lights is especially bright. Under the sign is a Seychelles hot shop. The door is pushed in, and the smell of hot wine comes to the face.

In the small store, customers from different countries are sitting together, and shop owners Zeng Xiaotang and Wang Haoran are distributing Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes to them.

Italian guests wondered: ¡°Why eat mooncake?¡± and the store owner laughed and explained: ¡°This is the tradition of our Mid-Autumn Festival. The round mooncake symbolizes the reunion, with the family to celebrate the moon, eat mooncake, is the warmest festival memory of the Chinese.¡±

The moon is the moon of the moon, the moon of the moon is the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon of the moon.

The power of delicious food is often beyond imagination. Nowadays, on the streets of Italy, people can see Xi'an meat sandwich, Chongqing hot pot, Yunnan rice noodles... More and more Chinese restaurants are bringing Chinese taste and stories into the daily life of local people in their own unique ways.

Gastronomy not only brings the pleasure of taste, but also draws close to each other. Many customers will ask about its history when taste a dish, and every time this time, once Little Peas and Wang Huan will detail the origin of the dish and the story behind it. The regular guest of the hot tub Katarina Chekoni told reporters that she always felt China was far away, but because of the frequent eating of this Sichuan flavor, gradually, China made her feel very familiar.

Hu Chen Xiaoping, who runs a meat grocery store in Rome, told reporters that for six years, he frequently bites the first meat grocery when local customers bite, pointing to the photograph of the soldier horse on the wall, telling them the food and the origin of Xi'an, "so that they remember not just a grocery, but a country, a culture."

¡°For me, meals are not just meals, but a way to understand China.¡± ¨C Francesca Fatica, a customer at the meat grocery store, shares her understanding of meals with reporters. ¨C Customer Simona Barthiere says that she can¡¯t help but read the Chinese introductions on the wall every time she comes to meals, ¡°the meals are like a gateway to better understand ancient Chinese civilization.¡±

The meaning of a meal, sometimes far more than a meal of satiety. a piece of cake, a bowl of meat, a glass of wine... Chinese people share with Italians, taste more than curiosity, understanding and trust.

In the mid-Autumn night, the moon hangs high, the smell is full. Someone tastes the moon cake for the first time, someone quietly listens to the introduction of the store owner, feels the culture and customs from China, someone tells the story of their hometown, someone finds a long resonance in other countries...

In the light of the moon in Italy, this phrase has a new meaning: using food as a medium, gastronomy can become a bridge to "unify" with the world.