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

Moscow: 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.