China in Seven BanquetsChina in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China's food history in seven iconic meals. From the opulent Eight Treasures fete to the 'Tail Burning' banquet of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing court's extravagant 'complete Manchu Han feast'. We also experience lavish repasts from literature and film, a New Year's buffet from 1920s Shanghai and a delivery menu from the hyper global twenty first century, and even peek at the tables of the not so