The way to open a new friendship is very special, let's have a cup of green tea! In MMC

With the start of various Asian Games events, the main media center of the Hangzhou Asian Games is gaining popularity, and journalists from various countries have been in place. There are familiar faces and reports of "new life".

Recently, in the media, journalists often shoot visiting videos to interview friends who come from afar, and thus extend many interesting topics.

For example, how to quickly get closer to the people around you when you first arrive?

Nayef Alfeeli from Kuwait has been here for two days. The daily routine is to go to the tea break and have a cup of tea, and then communicate with the people around for a moment.

Here, green tea and exquisite Hangzhou style snacks are served at designated locations every day. Miss, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing, sat upright at the tea table, pouring water and twisting leaves for the reporters who came to rest... It was quite elegant.

Nayef said, this is an exclusive memory of Hangzhou. "This type of green tea tastes very sweet and elegant, completely different from English tea." Nayef pointed to the "Willow Waves and Warblers" badge hanging on the journalist's identification card strap, smiled, and exclaimed that green tea is like this lush scenery.

The reporter told him that the emblem is engraved with one of the ten scenic spots of West Lake, and the famous origin of his favorite green tea also comes from here. "Oh, the West Lake!" Nayef suddenly realized.

Nayef has participated in various international sports events, but it is still his first time coming to China. For him, this is also a brand new experience.

Compared to competitions, Nayef prefers to take some time out to take a walk on the streets with his friends. They plan to shoot a series of city themed films, documenting the charm of traditional Chinese culture by checking in on food streets, famous attractions, and more.

At the end of the interview, the reporter took off the "Willow Waves and Warblets" badge and gave it to Nayef as a gift. "Haha, I also want to buy some cute Asian Games products and bring them back to my grandchildren," Nayef said happily.

"Do you want to change your badge?" "Group up and get it!" In fact, the topic of badges has become common in the main media center, and it has become a necessary opening phrase for new friends to socialize.

A journalist from Australia was very happy to see a volunteer wearing a koala badge and punched the volunteer. There are also foreign friends who specially collect journalist shaped badges with glasses, microphones, and cameras.

"This is very cute, it has made me many friends and allowed me to learn about different cultures." Sri Lankan photographer Thuith Wijedoru particularly likes badges with Hangzhou elements like the "Ten Views of West Lake".

The first time I came to Hangzhou, Thuith was looking for interesting attractions. After the competition, he went to check in and freeze the picturesque scenery of Hangzhou.

"Visiting West Lake is on my plan." Thuith has been to China before, including the ancient city walls of Xi'an, the Great Wall of Beijing, and the Bund of Shanghai... Compared to modernization and a sense of technology, traditional culture can immerse him more.

Recently, he met a volunteer and they arranged to go for a walk and stroll together after the game. Two or three days ago, when Thuith had just arrived and couldn't figure out the layout of the venue, the volunteer stepped forward and pointed the way. When the two chatted, Thuith mentioned that he came from Sri Lanka, and coincidentally, this volunteer had worked as a Chinese teacher in Sri Lanka for a period of time.

"We still have more time to explore." Indonesian partners Rian Apridhani and Mohammad Kushaeni, who are visiting China for the first time, also enjoy sharing the customs and traditions of "Zhejiang".

Mohamad enjoys taking photos of high-rise buildings in Hangzhou and sharing them on his personal social media platform; And Rian plans to take the opportunity of the competition to visit the co host cities of the Asian Games, such as Shaoxing and Ningbo.

They are journalists from the Republic of Indonesia Radio. For them, this trip has special significance.

In 2018, Jakarta, Indonesia hosted the Asian Games again more than 50 years later. At the 19th Asian Games, the torch arrived in Hangzhou, China.

"I think this may be the best equipped Asian Games." Mohamad believes that he has seen the excellent traditional Chinese culture and experienced a strong "Jiangnan charm", including coffee leisure, sleep cabins, lifestyle supermarkets, traditional Chinese massage, haircuts, and tea drinking.

Meeting new friends is also a process of unexpected encounters with beauty.

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