Explaining "down to earth" to a kiwi:
Man requests burger
Wang Yi is very down to earth. During a visit to NZ a number of years back, it was my job to greet him at the airport and escort him to meet our foreign minister in central Auckland. He said he had not liked the look of the airline food, was hungry, and would like to stop for a hamburger (he was quite specific) on the way to town if there was somewhere handy. So we stopped at the Carl’s Jr. that used to be near the airport and Wang Yi and members of his delegation and I all enjoyed a burger before proceeding into town to meet the minister.