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Chinese culinary contest wows Egyptian enthusiasts

STORY: Chinese culinary contest wows Egyptian enthusiasts SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 17, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:39 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese dishes 2. various of the awarding ceremony 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG GUOHUA, Chef of the China Cultural Center, Judge of the contest 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): YASMIN FESHAWY, Visitor STORYLINE: In the festive air of the Chinese Spring Festival, an annual Chinese Cuisine Culinary Competition has concluded in Cairo. The final race of this year's contest, themed "Chinese Taste Night," was held Saturday night in a hotel with 18 Chinese food lovers and professional chefs from across Egypt cooking two dishes on site for judges to score on skills and tastes. One of the two dishes is designated as Hot Spicy Boiled Beef (Shui Zhu Niu Rou), a classic dish from Sichuan cuisine. In the final, a first-prize winner, three second-prize winners, and six third prizes were selected. The race was organized by the Chinese Cultur

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Food Train arrives in Kharkiv and Izium

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 24, 2023 - A cook of the Food Train puts containers with dishes into a box for Kharkiv residents at the railway station in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. Built and maintained by the Ukrainian Railways and financed by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the autonomous Food Train set out from Kyiv to Kharkiv and Izium on its maiden voyage. On its first trip, the train delivered Thanksgiving meals to local residents and Ukrainian emergency workers, paramedics and police officers working in the region. The train consists of six carriages, including a generator car, a refrigerator car, a cold kitchen car, a hot kitchen car, a car for the crew with a shower and a washing machine and a luggage car with a 27,000-liter water reservoir, a filtration station, and a pumping station. The Food Train can work autonomously using its generators and water supply for up to 7 days and deliver 10,000 hot meals per day to the regions of Ukraine that sustained serious damage to logistic and power networks

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Food Train arrives in Kharkiv and Izium

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 24, 2023 - Cooks prepare dishes for Kharkiv residents on the Food Train, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. Built and maintained by the Ukrainian Railways and financed by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the autonomous Food Train set out from Kyiv to Kharkiv and Izium on its maiden voyage. On its first trip, the train delivered Thanksgiving meals to local residents and Ukrainian emergency workers, paramedics and police officers working in the region. The train consists of six carriages, including a generator car, a refrigerator car, a cold kitchen car, a hot kitchen car, a car for the crew with a shower and a washing machine and a luggage car with a 27,000-liter water reservoir, a filtration station, and a pumping station. The Food Train can work autonomously using its generators and water supply for up to 7 days and deliver 10,000 hot meals per day to the regions of Ukraine that sustained serious damage to logistic and power networks across de-occupied territories.

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Food Train arrives in Kharkiv and Izium

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 24, 2023 - A cook of the Food Train puts containers with dishes into a box for Kharkiv residents at the railway station in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. Built and maintained by the Ukrainian Railways and financed by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the autonomous Food Train set out from Kyiv to Kharkiv and Izium on its maiden voyage. On its first trip, the train delivered Thanksgiving meals to local residents and Ukrainian emergency workers, paramedics and police officers working in the region. The train consists of six carriages, including a generator car, a refrigerator car, a cold kitchen car, a hot kitchen car, a car for the crew with a shower and a washing machine and a luggage car with a 27,000-liter water reservoir, a filtration station, and a pumping station. The Food Train can work autonomously using its generators and water supply for up to 7 days and deliver 10,000 hot meals per day to the regions of Ukraine that sustained serious damage to logistic and power networks

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Food Train arrives in Kharkiv and Izium

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 24, 2023 - A cook of the Food Train puts containers with dishes into a box for Kharkiv residents at the railway station in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. Built and maintained by the Ukrainian Railways and financed by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the autonomous Food Train set out from Kyiv to Kharkiv and Izium on its maiden voyage. On its first trip, the train delivered Thanksgiving meals to local residents and Ukrainian emergency workers, paramedics and police officers working in the region. The train consists of six carriages, including a generator car, a refrigerator car, a cold kitchen car, a hot kitchen car, a car for the crew with a shower and a washing machine and a luggage car with a 27,000-liter water reservoir, a filtration station, and a pumping station. The Food Train can work autonomously using its generators and water supply for up to 7 days and deliver 10,000 hot meals per day to the regions of Ukraine that sustained serious damage to logistic and power networks

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Meals at Guantanamo camp

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - This Sept. 2, 2009 photo shows culturally appropriate meals given to detainees at a camp complex in the U.S. naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. Islamic halal meals are prepared in cooking areas strictly separated from areas for non-halal foods. Detainees have six dishes to choose from and the meals cost $3.1 million per year. Some detainees after release argue that they lost weight due to what they say is the low quality of the meals but a camp officer downplayed the dispute, saying such accusations are part of an ''information war'' former captives engage in.

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Multi-ethnic family reflects Xinjiang's diversity, unity

STORY: Multi-ethnic family reflects Xinjiang's diversity, unity DATELINE: May 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: Urumqi CATEGORY: SOCIETY/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Halida's restaurant and her family 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HALIDA YILAHUN, Restaurant owner 3. various of ethnic groups in Xinjiang STORYLINE: In the city of Tacheng, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a restaurant called Rose Garden stands out for the great variety of foods it serves. Diners of different ethnic groups can always find one or two dishes to their liking on the menu, whether it be the Uygur pilaf, the Tartar pastries, the Kazakh Naren, or the dumplings favored by the Han people. The owner of the restaurant, Halida Yilahun, a Uygur, said the secret of her restaurant's rich menu lies in her big extended family of more than 50 members, who are from different ethnic groups. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HALIDA YILAHUN, Restaurant owner "There are six ethnic groups in my family, which are Tatar, Uzbek, Han, Uygur, Russ

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Relaxing women

Six women face the camera in a room with a tokonoma. The woman on the far left holds a fan on her knees, and the second from the left holds a standing shamisen. Dishes line up in front of them and a woman holds a sake bottle in one hand.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:[R. Stillfried], (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number27‐29‐0]

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1st Japanese food court in Yangon launched

The first Japanese food court in Myanmar is launched on March 22, 2017, in Yangon. The six restaurants, serving dishes including sushi and udon noodles, are operated by a joint corporation of a Japanese trading house and a local distribution firm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Geisha performance in local train car

A geisha gives a preview of a dance performance inside a train carriage in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu on Nov. 15, 2016. A train featuring the geisha performance will be operated on six days between Jan. 11 and Feb. 14, 2017. Local dishes will also be served. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Geisha performance in local train car

A geisha gives a preview of a dance performance inside a train carriage in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu on Nov. 15, 2016. A train featuring the geisha performance will be operated on six days between Jan. 11 and Feb. 14, 2017. Local dishes will also be served. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Geisha performance in local train car

A geisha gives a preview of a dance performance inside a train carriage in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu on Nov. 15, 2016. A train featuring the geisha performance will be operated on six days between Jan. 11 and Feb. 14, 2017. Local dishes will also be served. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Geisha performance in local train car

A geisha gives a preview of a dance performance inside a train carriage in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu on Nov. 15, 2016. A train featuring the geisha performance will be operated on six days between Jan. 11 and Feb. 14, 2017. Local dishes will also be served. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Meals at Guantanamo camp

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - This Sept. 2, 2009 photo shows culturally appropriate meals given to detainees at a camp complex in the U.S. naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. Islamic halal meals are prepared in cooking areas strictly separated from areas for non-halal foods. Detainees have six dishes to choose from and the meals cost $3.1 million per year. Some detainees after release argue that they lost weight due to what they say is the low quality of the meals but a camp officer downplayed the dispute, saying such accusations are part of an ''information war'' former captives engage in. (Kyodo)