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In Beijing, Obama and Hu broke bread with bean curd (Plus, see Obama’s face in sushi)

posted by brad wong on 2009.11.22, under bean curd, china, history, obama sushi, tofu

It might have been a detail easy to overlook.

But Western reporters covering President Obama’s recent state dinner in Beijing with Chinese leader Hu noted it: The high-profile event included chicken soup with bean curd.

If only prosperous, mutually-beneficial relations between the two countries bloom in the coming years, I will point to this meal – notably the soup with soybean cake - as the unifying agent.

You know: “World leaders, Obama and Hu, gather around tofu to talk pressing issues.”

If U.S.-China relations continue in the framework of diplomacy, dialogue and some bumps here and there, I will, nevertheless, note the historic moment.

Hey, I have to write sentences like that: I run a blog about soybean cake and other essential topics.

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