23-11-2013
The protagonists of Aria di Alba tour, a trip to show truffle wonders all around the world. In the picture, from the left Giuseppe Iannotti (chef of Kresios), Paolo Montanaro (Tartuflanghe), Christian Milone (Gastronavicella), Michele Dell'Aquila (chef of Aurora at hotel Altira), Eugenio Boer (chef), Mosun Abrate (Abrate & sons) and Emma De Danieli
Being used to notice the shades, the details, to analyse, re-elaborate and concretise, it is very hard for me to sum up the events that took place in Hong Kong and Macau, following 3 chefs, namely Eugenio Boer, Giuseppe Iannotti and Christian Milone, summoned to interpret a raw material such as truffle. It is difficult to describe the free time and the trips to CitySuper’s boutiques, offering all that’s edible around the world – the lunches and the dinners “stolen” from the work schedule, the little cafes in Wan Chai and LKF (Lan Kwai Fong), the dai pai dong, the multi-millionaires clubs, the tallest building, the most breath-taking view, the chewy sweets, the taxi-drivers, the shopping-centres…
Wagyu beef
Here you can find the highest number of skyscrapers concentrated in the least possible space with fishermen villages next door. There are shopping centres where stores are as big as palaces, next to tiny artisan shops. In the intricate labyrinth of skyscrapers, paradoxically, you could live your whole life without ever exiting the same building in which are located your house, office, gym, supermarket, various restaurants, a laundry shop, a cinema, a bank, shops and perhaps a rooftop spa. There are seven million inhabitants in a territory smaller than the city of Rome, with clean streets that recall the most intransigent European capitals where people queue religiously, waiting for their turn, while making as much noise as a band of gossipers at the market.
Useful readings
Taxi-drivers should deserve a chapter of their own. It is difficult to converse with them on more than the address and the price, partly because of misanthropy, partly because of linguistic difficulties. Hardly law-abiding when it comes to the number of people to get on board, they are very ill-tempered if you try to touch the doors before they action the automatic opening or closing. The only nice taxi-driver was rather drunk, he almost run over more than one road barrier and finally – at the end of the drive – fell asleep in the car after parking it on one side of the road. 2. to be continued
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