Chinese banquet tables

Larger Chinese banquets may fill sports arenas, as in Chengdu.

Photograph by Xinhua, eyevine/Redux

The Ritual of Chinese Banquets

From the October 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler

ByDaisann McLane
October 20, 2010
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