A shot of sweet bamboo shoots in an episode of "A Bite of China." (Photo : YouTube)
Popular TV documentary "A Bite of China" will now be available to Romanian households as it premieres on Channel Two this month, China Daily reported.
The documentary show will roll out in Romania on May 22 and be aired every week.
"I'm glad to see that such an excellent documentary will be screened by the National Television and I believe it will be well received by viewers," said the channel director of Romanian Television, as quoted by China Daily.
Once tagged as "the finest food TV ever" by The Guardian, "A Bite of China" first hit Chinese TV screens on May 14, 2012 via China Central Television. It was received warmly by Chinese audience, registering high ratings and drawing nearly 100 million viewers.
The show also received an approval rating of 91 percent on social networking site Douban.
The first season had seven episodes and began filming in 2011.
China's cuisines are the main focus, exploring various dishes in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
In a report by The Guardian, writer Oliver Thring described how the show veers away from other food-oriented shows by focusing on people.
Thring wrote: "As always, the people are the most interesting part: an old woman looking for matsutake mushrooms on pathless mountainsides, a family making kimchi in the Kingan mountains, a fisherman catching barracuda for his supper, a Shanghai woman filling her bathtub with live crabs to make drunken crab, drowning the creatures in wine and storing them in earthenware.
"But though the programme explains that the lives of many of its subjects are difficult and that the people are poor, it stunningly captures ways of life that are evaporating in modern China."
Chinese ambassador to Romania Xu Feihong said that the TV show will offer a venue for Romania to peek through China's culture.
