Editor's note:

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'.

Fu Chunyan, who is from Haikou, has studied abroad for many years. She is currently studying for a PhD at Cambridge University. Because she misses her hometown food, she developed good cooking skills. This year, she can’t go back to her hometown for Chinese New Year. Instead, she's preparing Hainanese food for her Australian friend Rosalind to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival together. Look at what kind of hometown delicacies Fu Chunyan prepared for Rosalind. After Rosalind is finished, she can pack up the leftovers and take them with her!