Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday dined on Peking duck and Jinhua ham at a banquet featuring Chinese opera and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
A program and menu reported by TASS showed guests were offered an array of cold "zakuski" hors d'oeuvres, prawn soup, beef in bean sauce, Fuzhou noodles, pumpkin pastries, fruits.
A 2009 "Greatwall" Cabernet Sauvignon and a 2016 Changyu Chardonnay were also offered, TASS said.
The program includes a mixture of Chinese and Russian classics played by the military orchestra of the Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army including a melody of Peking opera, "An unforgettable evening" and the dance of the little swans from Swan Lake.
(Reuters)
