The menu of this state banquet is not the legendary "gourmet feast", but relatively simple, exquisite Hangzhou specialties: clear soup with pine mushrooms, pine nuts Mandarin fish, Longjing shrimp, cream crab stuffed with orange, Dongpo steak, seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as some cold dishes, snacks, fruit ice cream. The drinks were a 2012 Zhangyu Dry Red and a 2011 Zhangyu Dry White.
How the menu was selected
△Xizi Hotel (Source)
There is no doubt that the G20 summit will be held in Hangzhou, and the state banquet to entertain the leaders will feature exquisite Hangzhou cuisine. In April this year, Hangzhou city authorities to meet the G20 summit as an opportunity, in China Hangzhou Cuisine Museum held a Hangzhou cuisine dishes and service skills competition. One of the most notable, the contest selected 20 of the most Hangzhou characteristics of the dishes, including 16 dishes and 4 snacks.
Most of these dishes are famous Hangzhou historical dishes, but some new cooking techniques have been incorporated to make them more contemporary. The chefs say they are ready to make their foreign friends forget the wonderful flavors of Hangzhou. What are these classic Hangzhou dishes?
What are some of these classic Hangzhou dishes you've had? If you were the chef tonight, which dish would you most want Obama, Putin and other leaders to try?
Good horses go with good saddles. What kind of tableware should be used to match the "national colors" of the dinner?
It is understood that the G20 state dinner used in the "West Lake Feast" tableware design team from Shanghai, its design inspiration comes from the water and natural landscape. The whole set of tableware reflects the "West Lake elements, Hangzhou characteristics, Jiangnan flavor, Chinese style, the world's largest country" of the G20 state banquet layout tone.
The pattern of the state banquet tableware is created by the "green landscape" brushstrokes with a sense of writing, which is rich in the aesthetic elements of traditional culture, and the layout is subtle and rigorous, with a refreshing mood.
All the designs are taken from the West Lake. For example, the tea and coffee porcelain utensils series, inspired by the West Lake lotus, lotus shape, the lid lifted to look like a water drop.
Walking along the West Lake, the most memorable of those large and small bridges. This year's G20 Summit logo pattern with 20 lines, depicting a bridge-shaped outline. The bridge, in this set of state banquet tableware, is not only reflected in the pattern, but also in the shape of the utensils, which also incorporates the elements of the bridge.
The design of the hemispherical Zun top cover of the cold dish platter is derived from the Three Pools and the Moon, one of the ten scenic spots of the West Lake. The lid is 5.5 centimeters high, in order to realistically reproduce the shape of the three pools and the moon, the craftsmen need to carve out six 0.3 centimeter windows on the lid with a diameter of 1.5 centimeters. Zun dome cover the upper part of the pattern creativity is derived from the "full of laurel rain", to Hangzhou city flower osmanthus and Jiangnan bamboo natural snuggle with each other to start.
The soup tureen adopts a double-layer thermostatic method to ensure that the hot soup can maintain its temperature. The shape of the soup tureen is inspired by the treasure ship of the Maritime Silk Road, and the lift of the soup tureen lid is in the shape of a simple bridge.