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Editor's Note: The delicious tastes of life are indispensable and worth exploring all the time, and those happy and happy people after filling our stomachs will make life better.
This issue of food intelligence is still full of surprises, from Shake Shack's first store in southwest China to Chengdu Ocean Taikoo Li to the upcoming opening of the Blue Bottle Coffee Jing'an Kerry Center store; Four Seasons Hotel Beijing launches "Little Liu Duck" handmade mousse cake and themed afternoon tea, while The Peninsula Wangfu launches Homemade Mooncakes in Huangting as a mid-Autumn Festival; Pernod Ricard and Rentou Majundu Group have appeared at the 2nd China International Consumer Goods Expo; As well as Sumida River small red strip coffee liquid on the new toffee hazelnut flavor and cocoa mocha flavor, etc.
Recently, Shake Shack, a popular street burger shop from New York, opened its first store in the southwest of Chengdu Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li. This move marks Shake Shack's official entry into the southwest China market, bringing more fresh potential energy to the southwest region.
Among them, Shake Shack selects high-quality ingredients to bring a variety of popular signature dishes to chengdu people, including signature beef burger Shark, classic American hot dog Flat-Top Dogs, as well as signature chicken burger Chicken Shack, signature spicy chicken burger Dark Meat Hot Chicken and vegetarian cheese mushroom burger Shroom Burger. At the same time, people can also enjoy Shake Shack's signature craft beer, signature red and white wine and soft drinks.
Shake Shack also paid tribute to Sichuan cuisine, innovatively launching an urban limited milkshake - "Panda Pandastic!", a store-limited ice cream - "Looking for 'Mo' Taikoo Li Live Me the Tea" and a charity ice cream - "Bashet 'Powder' Feeling So BASHI". In addition, in order to meet the non-spicy eating habits of Chengdu people, Shake Shack has also worked with the local One Michelin Star Restaurant Ma Wangzi to customize an exclusive dipping sauce - Ma Wangzi Secret Chili Noodles, which is specially used to match the taste of Fries and signature crispy chicken nuggets.
Blue Bottle Coffee's second store in Chinese mainland, Shanghai Jing'an Kerry Centre, will meet you on August 5. The store is located in the bustling Business District of West Nanjing Road, adjacent to the thousand-year-old Jing'an Temple, where the Blue Bottle gives customers leisure and tranquility with immersive space, comfortable drinks and meals, and warm service.
Jing'an Kerry Centre is the fourth store created by Blue Bottle and Keiji Ashizawa Design, drawing on the structure of Shanghai Shikumen Lane to create a "building within a building", presenting a hidden and open characteristic space that runs from the first floor to the second floor; At the same time, the design is inspired by traditional Chinese roof tiles, and extended to space, materials and meals. Jing'an Kerry Centre Store is looking forward to your visit!
On July 25, the 2nd China International Consumer Goods Fair was officially opened in Haikou. For the second consecutive year, pernod Ricard, a world-renowned spirits and wine group, exhibited at the Hainan International Convention and Exhibition Center with its brands.
At this year's CIPO, Pernod Rover, with the themes of "Creating and Enjoying Together" and "Sustainable Development", not only interprets the long-term commitment of "sharing open opportunities and creating a better life" with Hainan and the Chinese market, but also demonstrates its deep determination to continue to expand its retail territory and further integrate into the "double cycle" pattern.
Recently, Nestlé headquarters announced the launch of its first ice cream featuring Nescafe, which is said to be made from real coffee ingredients in the ice cream shell and filling, rather than the coffee flavor. This cappuccino-flavored ice cream will be available in Malaysia in the coming months and is expected to be further promoted to the global market.
On July 25th, the second China International Consumer Goods Fair kicked off in Haikou, Hainan, where Rémy Cointreau Group, the global leader in the high-end spirits market, unveiled the CICGF with its full product matrix under the theme of "Best Quality Qiongzhou, Qiong Pulp for China".
As an important exhibitor of France, the guest of honor of this year' exhibition, Rentou Ma Jundu hopes to continue to share French ingenuity and high-quality wines with the Chinese market through the important opening platform of the CICGF, and further demonstrate his confidence and determination to deepen the Chinese market.
From now until 30 October, Pu Xuan Hotel and French make-up and skincare brand Guerlain launched the "Fangyu" themed afternoon tea in the hotel lobby bar, while the "Eternal Mucha – Magic of Lines" theme exhibition was held at the Guardian Art Center.
This time, Puxuan Hotel's chef team collected the colorful fragrances of Guerlain's "Flower and Grass Water Language" eau de toilette series as inspiration, turning the essence of nature into a pleasure on the tip of the tongue. Among them, the rose lychee puffs refer to the aroma of "rose rose", and the shape is exquisite and cute; Citrus green tea basil cheese restores the light vitality of "citrus basil"; Orange Fig Mas was inspired by the "Orange Blossom Rock Orchid"; Yuzu honey Napoleon specially uses Japanese yuzu cream sauce, with a slightly sour grapefruit fragrance into the taste buds, like a "Sydney smoothie" as refreshing.
Salty treats include Parma ham melon, duck liver passion fruit lightning puffs and salmon avocado tarts to garnish with fresh and refreshing fruit. The two creative mocktails "Admiring Beauty" and "Eternal Summer" hope that people can enjoy the lightness and freshness of the heart.
With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, Shi Chenrong, Executive Chef of Phoenix Garden Chinese Restaurant at The Peninsula Wangfu Hotel, and Deng Jianbiao, head chef of dim sum, continue the cultural heritage with the heart of craftsmen, and work together to carve a variety of exquisite mooncakes.
In addition to continuing the classic taste of the traditional Peninsula Hong Kong-style mooncake, the chef team of Huangting Chinese Restaurant has ingeniously presented the coffee chocolate caramel flavor and the limited heart-shaped milk yellow homemade mooncake, adding new flavor and novelty to the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake.
From now until 31 October, Four Seasons Hotel Beijing and The Famous Liu in Beijing will launch the "Little Liu Duck" handmade mousse cake and themed afternoon tea to showcase a different active and interesting lifestyle.
The hotel chef team pulled the little liu duck from virtual to reality, inspired by fresh seasonal fruits, using the varied taste of the fruit combined with the mousse cake to fully restore the personality characteristics of the 4 little liu ducks, and used the three-dimensional handmade mousse cake and theme afternoon tea to show the little liu duck in front of people's eyes. The four mousse cakes are: the exploding head liu duck made of passionflower coconut mousse cake - "want to fry the duck", the lemon little liu duck made of lemon cheese mousse cake - "I sour duck", the orange-headed little Liu duck made of citrus grapefruit vanilla mousse cake - "shy duck", and the raspberry white chocolate mousse cake made of fortune Little Liu duck - "Fortune Duck".
In addition, the "Little Liu Duck" themed afternoon tea also contains four appetizing and salty points: smoked ham and cheese, mini croissants; French oil sealed duck, pickled apricot sauce bamboo charcoal soft bun; smoked salmon sandwich; Duck liver, raspberry sauce, Italian pearl vinegar balls. Four desserts: Opera House, Lemon Tart, Raspberry Millefeuille and Tiramisu, as well as a selection of coffees and teas.
In the height of summer, the 16th FIRST Youth Film Festival officially opened in Xining, and Rémy Martin, a world-renowned expert in the champagne region of Cognac, as the official designated spirits brand of this FIRST Youth Film Festival, will also pay tribute to film art with nearly 300 years of ingenuity in the 9-day film festival, and jointly conduct in-depth discussions around the proposition of "sustainability".
During this event, RentouMa will take the theme of "Waiting for the Future" as the theme, and at many other events such as the selection of honors for the audience of the film festival, the cocktail party dinner, etc., together with the guests and filmmakers who come to the exhibition, they will toast each wonderful moment with excellent wine. At the same time, Rémy Martin will also work with THE FIRST Youth Film Festival to present the FIRST X Audience Choice Honorary Award to support the diversified new film forces and jointly help the film industry.
The press conference of SIGEP China 2023 Shenzhen International Handmade Ice Cream, Roasting & Coffee Exhibition was held on July 25, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at Grand Hyatt Shenzhen.
Mr. Corrado Peraboni, CEO of Exhibitions Group Italia, said at the press conference, "We always firmly believe that the Chinese market is a crucial step in the global strategy of SIGEP, the Chinese market has great prospects for development, and the consumer group's favor for excellent products from Italy, such as handmade ice cream and pastry, is increasing year by year, and we hope that through SIGEP China, Chinese buyers can meet excellent products and production processes from Europe at close range."
A few days ago, Sumida Chuan Coffee held a new product launch conference of "Fresh Coffee is Red", launched a variety of lock fresh works, and Xiao Zhan, a global brand spokesperson, also appeared to share fresh coffee interesting facts. With the release of the new product, Sumidagawa Coffee launched two new flavors around the ace single product lossless lock fresh small red strip coffee liquid - toffee hazelnut flavor and cocoa mocha flavor. Compared to classic Italian flavors, toffee hazelnuts have a sweeter texture with a rich toffee caramel and hazelnut flavor; The Cocoa Mocha flavor has a mellow chocolate aroma with moderate sweetness and a rounded and silky mouth.
At the same time, the new flavor products also continue the upgraded fresh technology of small red bars, using the "lightning head tao" technology, only the first coffee stock solution is selected, and the rich taste of coffee is fully retained. 15ml single capacity, 12 months of room temperature lock fresh, can be arbitrarily combined with hot and cold water, milk, coconut water, sparkling water and other drinks. In addition, the brand has also launched a new lock fresh coffee bean product - Chayun Black Qiao Coffee Bean, selecting high-quality coffee beans from Brazil, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
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