The official dining habits of the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, have been revealed in a new exhibition in Beijing.
The details are included in a special show called ‘Five Years On,’and includes food menus and receipts from between 2012 and 2015, reports guancha.cn.
A buffet food menu is on show for the first time from a dinner during President Xi’s inspection tour of Fuping County, Hebei province back in 2012. The menu for Xi and those accompanying him included traditional Chinese homemade dishes and some local cuisine such as chicken braised in brown sauce, ratatouille with pork, white gourds and meatballs, pork dumplings and rice.
The Exhibition also displays a receipt of 160 yuan signed by Xi Jinping himself during his visit to Lankao County, Henan in 2014.
A special hand-written and finger-printed receipt in relation to a meal given by a village leader at his home, was also on display which came from Xi’s visit to villagers in Liangjiahe Village in Yan’an, Shaanxi province in 2015. The lunch cost 30 yuan per person on average.
The ‘Five Years On’ themed exhibition as a whole reflects Chinese people’s efforts and achievements in terms of national development over the past 5 years, and is being staged at the Beijing Exhibition Center.