It was four years ago that Director-General of the GIO Shaw Yu-ming noted how most people's perceptions of China's culture scarcely went beyond the Chinese movie celebrities Fu Manchu and Bruce Lee, or the dining establishments in local Chinatowns.
構想起於四年前。新聞局長邵玉銘指出，長久以來，外國人瞭解的中國，除了傅滿洲、李小龍等從中國電影中得來的形象外，就是唐人街的餐飲文化了。