Posted on Nov. 23，2024 by Dong Quanyue|Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
Qingdao-Richmond （Canada）Culinary Arts Exchange Event was held in the college and online on November 21st.
Han Xiqing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the college, said that the college provides good services for Qingdao's international Friendship City Cooperation and Exchange and helps to improve the dissemination of China's food culture through our professional characteristics and advantages.
Lisa McNeil, President of Richmond Friendship City Committee of Canada, expressed her gratitude for the support of Qingdao Foreign Affairs Office and hoped to expand the culinary culture exchanges on the basis of the existing friendship city cooperation and link the in-depth exchanges between the two cities through food.
Guo Yu, First Grade Researcher of Municipal Party Committee's Foreign Affairs Office, said that since the two cities have established a friendly cooperation relationship for eight years, both sides have continued to expand the field of cooperation and strengthen culinary cultural exchanges; he hoped that the college would give full play to its professional advantages, actively serve the needs of Qingdao's foreign affairs development, and help to enhance Qingdao's influence in the international arena.
During the activity, Wang Qingquan, a teacher of the college, gave a cooking demonstration and made two delicacies, “Shandong Steamed Pork Balls” and “Fried Shrimp in Tomato Sauce”, which were selected as the representative works of the 6th batch of Qingdao Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage, and demonstrated the inheritance and innovation of the culinary specialty of the college.
Fried Shrimp in Tomato Sauce
Shandong Steamed Pork Balls
Based on the exchanges between friendly cities and Qingdao's regional advantages, this activity took cultural exchanges as a link and food as a carrier, and expanded the influence of our internationalized education and the spread of traditional cooking skills.
