"Chinese specials tonight. Banquet dinner in the honour of Prime Minister @narendramodi in Xian," tweeted External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup.
Swarup also posted a snapshot of the menu card for the dinner.
The entire list included, sour and spicy soup with fired dough, assorted vegetables with pancake and red bean rice, bean curd with mushroom, water chestnut in bean sauce, braised asparagus and bamboo fungus with lotus root, noodle dumpling and pancake, fruits and sorbet, apart from the first course.
This was a departure from protocol and is being seen as a reciprocal gesture by the Chinese leader who was hosted by Modi in Ahmedabad when he visited India.