Cooking, catering and competitions

This weekend sees three important events for Beijing's catering industry, the 18th China Chef's Festival, the 6th China World Cooking Competition and the 4th China International Catering & Food Expo which all finish on Monday. The event is being organized by the Quanjude Group, while Dragon Seal and Beijing Erguotou are its sponsors.

A co-sponsor, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, says it is the 1st time the three events have been held at the same time, and in the same city. Several thousand chefs, including representatives from around China, plus 20 countries, including the USA, Japan, Australia, German and Republic of Korea, are competing.

A cooking show will be staged every day in No 12 hall at the Beijing Exhibition Center. A team of Chinese chefs will make 90-meter turnip slices, carve bean curd into bird and peony designs, make noodles on a monocycle, cut meat slices on a balloon and do a repeat of a 10-meter, hand-stretched noodle which was previously granted a Guinness World Record.