Asian Cuisine Festival: Chinese consumers' growing appetite for Asian beer & seafood

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The Asian Cuisine Festival concludes today in China's southern Guangzhou city. The best beer and seafood across Asia gathered in the city in the past several days. CGTN's Ge Yunfei has more.

Drink as much as you wish, the Chinese customers now has the chance to drink many of the best Asian beer brands in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. San Miguel Beer, a popular brand in the Philippines is trying to take this opportunity to get closer to the Chinese market.

JAKE ROBIN S. RAMINTAS, VICE CONSUL CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES, GUANGZHOU "Having San Miguel beer with our friends and family in our parties is part of our culture. And we want to share this culture with the Chinese customers."

In the hot and humid summer nights, beer always come along with the seafood in the southern Guangdong Province. And people here are renowned for their strong love for seafood.

LI JIE, OWNER SEAFOOD BARBECUE RESTAURANT "The love for seafood is already in the genes of our Guangdong people. And we only eat the freshest seafood."

36-year-old Li Jie now runs a seafood barbecue restaurant. Every morning, he goes to the seafood market to pick the best and the biggest ones for his customers. But what makes his restaurant special is most of the seafood here are imported from the overseas.

LI JIE, OWNER SEAFOOD BARBECUE RESTAURANT "We've got the mantis shrimp from Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines，and the arctic shellfish from South Korea. They're bigger than our domestic products and our customers love them very much."

Not only the food themselves, Li Jie also likes to find inspirations of new cooking styles and methods when he traveled to other Asian countries.

LI JIE, OWNER SEAFOOD BARBECUE RESTAURANT "For instance, I came up with the idea of having shrimp with passion fruit juice when I was in Vietnam. And I also introduced the roasted durian to the city from Thailand."

Li said delicious food is like a gift of life. And the happiness can be greater with more and more kinds of Asian seafood being introduced into China. Ge Yunfei, CGTN, Guangdong Province.