Xi and Putin to dine over Peking duck, Chinese opera and Swan Lake

Chinese ​President Xi ​Jinping and President ‌Vladimir Putin ​will on Wednesday dine on Peking duck and ‌Jinhua ham at a banquet featuring Chinese opera and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, ‌Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Chinese ​President Xi ​Jinping and President ‌Vladimir Putin ​will on Wednesday dine 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 programme ‌and menu reported by TASS showed guests would be 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 will be offered, ⁠TASS said. The programme 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.