Yak for lunch on first lady’s last day
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US first lady Michelle Obama wrapped up a weeklong trip to China yesterday by feeding pandas before having a yak-based lunch at a Tibetan restaurant.
Accompanied by her mother Marianne Robinson and daughters Sasha and Malia, she visited the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
There, the family viewed a 22-year-old grandmother panda named Li Li as well as five young cubs.
Photographs of the visit showed the first lady using a long stick to pass apples to pandas in a grassy enclosure — next to a sign that warned against feeding them.
The reserve, which was closed to the public for the visit, is home to nearly 80 giant pandas, as well as a colony of red pandas.
Obama and her family had lunch at a Tibetan restaurant in Chengdu.
The dishes served at the Zangxiang Teahouse featured a heavy emphasis on yak, including yak butter tea, yak soup, yak meat pies and boiled yak ribs.
The Obama family later went to Chengdu airport where they set off for home.
The visit to China was billed as one that focused on “soft” issues rather than on politics, and the first lady largely stayed true to that aim, playing ping-pong and jumping rope with students and touring Beijing sites with her Chinese counterpart Peng Liyuan.
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