There are eight major cuisines in China, each with different tastes and strengths. When entertaining foreign guests, which one to choose is a big problem, because we want them to eat comfortably and feel the mystery of China cuisine.
Some people have the manpower to cook Sichuan food, but foreigners who are too spicy and tasteless may not like it. Some people have the manpower to cook Beijing food, while others recommend Cantonese food. After discussion, everyone unanimously decided to adopt Huaiyang cuisine. Huaiyang cuisine is light and not greasy, and is famous for its softness and smoothness.
On the menu of Nixon State Banquet, we can see dozens of dishes such as butterfly cold cuts, shrimps with green beans, wall-hung roast duck, basket tofu and colorful desserts. At the banquet, Chinese and American leaders were happy and had pictures of taking food from each other. Besides the first time, we also went to Maotai, the national wine. Nixon showed great interest in wine. He said that he had always had a bad impression on liquor, but Maotai made him feel the time.
The next night, our staff also prepared a whole duck banquet for Nixon, and made all the ways to eat ducks. Nixon later said that this meal was his favorite after he came to China.
The American people on the other side of the ocean are not idle. Many people pay close attention to the president's every move, especially what he ate in China. A China restaurant in Manhattan even remade every dish after the live broadcast, which made many American diners curious for some time.
Some American restaurants have also begun to introduce Chinese food and learn to make all kinds of Chinese food. After this meeting, Chinese food was sought after by many foreigners.