Zhao laughs at the comment, steadily making his way around everything on the plate to try it all in the dip. "You could say that about a lot of food, doesn't make it any less popular. Or delicious. Though maybe people are more attuned to that kinda thing here..." Not that that's going to stop him when he gets his restaurant back open.

He smiles, more genuine than his usual expression, when Lucanis says the dish is a nostalgic one. "I read somewhere that the parts of your brain that handle taste and smell also deal with emotions. Probably why food taps into nostalgia so well. What's Treviso like? Paint me a word picture to go with the meal."