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2012 China Food Expo was held in Ningbo

Details: Category: Ningbo Business; Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:22

The four-day 2012 China Food Expo will be opened today in Ningbo's International Convention and Exhibition Center.

The expo consists of 5 pavilions. The NO. 1 Pavilion presents traditional cuisine from around the country, including well-known Taiwan's cuisine. There are more than 60 food exhibitors this year, said the organizers. Visitors will have chance to taste well-known Taiwan snacks and refreshments including brown sugar lollipop, nougat, pineapple cakes, dried fish floss, guava juice, grapefruit, dark plum juice, mango pudding, charcoal peanuts, etc..

The No.1 Pavilion is featured by the fruits exhibition of Kuqa County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Fresh pears, apricots, apples, dates, and walnuts are available here.

In addition, visitors can find donkey-hide gelatin produced in Shandong's Dong'e County, rice in Northeast China, Bread twist produced in Tianjin, liquor produced in Guizhou Province.

The No.2 Pavilion presents imported food, especially various wines around the world. The pavilion assembles well-known wines brands from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Several new brands from Australia, Chile, and even New Zealand, Moldova will also debut here. In addition, the pavilion will display German beer, and Canadian ice wine and cider.

The No.3 Pavilion presents traditional Ningbo cuisine and brings together nearly a thousand kinds of local cuisine. Apart from Tangtuan, potato vermicelli, rice cakes, layer-cakes, pickled vegetables and other traditional foods, visitors will find Ningbo grown melons, oranges, purple sweet potatoes, mushrooms and other vegetables and fruits. As for the sea food, the exhibitors will present snail, fish, dried sea crab, live fish etc. there will also local specialties like Hemudu wild rice stem, Xiangshan's white geese, Ninghai's blue crab, Beilun's mushrooms, and Fenghua's taro.

The No.5 and No.6 pavilions presents traditional cuisines from other cities and regions in Zhejiang Province. Visitors can find various delicacies including Longyou's sponge cake, Lin'an's hickory nuts, Wenzhou's duck lingua, Jiaxing's dumplings, Taizhou's citrus, blue crab, grapefruit, Shaoxing's rice wine and fennel beans, Jinhua's ham, honey, and rice sugar candy, Hangzhou's candies, soy products, and pecans, Zhoushan's seaweed, fish fillets, and dried shrimp, Quzhou's grapefruit, sponge cake, and tea, Lishui's mushrooms, camellia, and bamboo shoots.