Matching the Piemonte Brachetto DOC Acquesi to this dish is not a way of exploiting the common place that presents this a lovers’ wine. The “concubine smile” is the name of a tasty variety of lychees, famous for its green tones, popular in Southern China and in Hong Kong. Chef Xue here has combined in a rather simple and modern way the flavours of two worlds, the western and the Chinese. The wine, with its soft acidity, not invasive elegant bubbling and its sweet flavour coming together with the hints of raspberry, is a refreshing and pleasant match with the little cold tomatoes that have been impregnated by the aroma of the lychees. By the way, the dish recalls love in any case, since the “concubine” who gave the name to the fruit was Yang Yuhuan, one of the Four Beauties of China at the Tang Dinasty time. Emperor Xuanzong loved her and ordered that the lichees had to shipped fresh for her to Xian from Southern China.