US vice-president has noodles for lunch

Updated: 2011-08-18 17:07

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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US vice-president Joe Biden and his guests ordered five bowls of noodles with fried bean and meat sauce, ten steamed stuffed buns, a cucumber salad, a yam salad, a potato salad and some coca-cola, costing 79 yuan ($12) at a local Beijing noodle restaurant, the microblog of the US embassy, Beijing said. 

Biden thanked the restaurant manager and paid 100 yuan, leaving a 21 yuan tip.