No matter where you end up in life, the flavors of your favorite childhood dishes are sure to bring up sweet memories. Even if you've traveled a million miles from home, one bite of a hometown dish brings you right back to where you started, if only for a moment. Even after sampling and enjoying the cuisines of so many different countries and peoples, the foods that you miss the most are the ones your mother used to make. In celebration of Spring Festival 2024 and the start of the Chinese Year of the Dragon, Hainanese living abroad have poured all their homesickness into their cooking, lovingly crafting their favorite hometown Hainan dishes and inviting friends from their host countries to try them. Let's join these Hainanese home cooks all around the world as they share their cultural roots and the best flavors of Hainan.

The Hainan International Media Center and Hainanese all around the world invite you to enjoy the flavors of 'Cooking up Hainan'.

In Japan, Chinese Sichuan and northeastern cuisines are already fairly easy to find, but very few people have ever had a taste of Hainan food. Susu, a young woman from Hainan, has been working in the IT field in Tokyo, Japan for eight years, and posts to her Bilibili account in her spare time. She’s gotten to know the blogger Kubota online. Since Kubota is a big fan of the Hainan Coconut Milk brand, Susu decided to take him to try her hometown coconut chicken and Baoluo rice noodles. For Kubota, who is a big fan of Chinese culture, this is a real treat. Will he enjoy his foray into Hainanese cuisine?