In February 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s visit to China and realized the normalization of Sino-US relations, which was a major event that shocked the world, Premier Zhou Enlai personally hosted a dinner. China was very poor and backward, a lot of people have enough to eat. What things to eat on the state banquet was mysterious, they imagine relying on subjective guessing, also led to a lot of rumors. Another important factor is the Chinese people have resistance to the Americans.
At that time, Premier Zhou Enlai issued orders to the diplomats was “warm and generous, neither overbearing nor servile.” Of course, including catering hospitality, that is, let Nixon to eat anything, is itself a political attitude. 20 years have passed, people’s talk and speculation have become the laughing stock of history, we might put on the dinner menu, then copied the following:
Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, “imperial” work as one – agate Yu Yuan
Cold dishes: cucumber mixed with tomato, salt, chicken pot Fire Bureau, vegetarian ham, vegetarian carp, pineapple duck pieces, Guangdong bacon, wax chicken sausage, tri-color eggs.
Stir-fried: Hibiscus bamboo shoots soup, three wire shark’s fin, two to eat prawns, straw mushroom cover vegetables, steamed coconut, almond cheese.
Dim Sum: Wandou Huang, deep-fried spring roll, plum dumplings, fried rice cakes, bread, butter, assorted cooking.
Thus, there is no special food, only the equivalent of today people are “summarized” affordable dinner.
In October 1986, according to Chinese lunar calendar is calculated in September 9 Double Ninth Festival, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to China. Queen’s aristocratic background, pay attention to diet, but it came to China, she proposes to do as the Romans.
Diaoyutai State Guesthouse for the Elizabeth II, hot and cold dishes prepared the following points:
Hors d’oeuvres: Crystal shrimp frozen, pineapple duck, Baizhan Ji, wishful fish roll, rot Kinumaki dishes, combs cucumber, four kind of side dishes.
Hot food: chicken jasmine rice cake soup, tiao qiang, xiaolongbao different from Gracilaria four elements, steamed mandarin fish, Longan almond tea.
Dessert: fresh peas, cakes, chicken spring rolls, fried hemp group, Sixi Boiled dumplings, butter, bread and rice.