Fit for a president

While the United States president's maiden China visit is now history, restaurants across Beijing still have Barack Obama fever. Chefs have rustled up a feast fit for the president to mark the event.

Chef Ku, executive chef at Ritz-Carlton Beijing's Cantonese restaurant, Yu, designed a four-course menu in Obama's honor. The range of appetizers includes jellyfish and braised plantain, crepe with egg yolk and bean curd soup, stir-fried wagyu beef and glistening slivers of tender Peking duck. For dessert, he chose the mildly sweet sago pudding with lotus seeds.

His favorite, however, is an assorted seafood dish - steamed leopard fish, coral and trout served with protein-rich crab yolk.