For most of us, visiting Expo is a special trip.

Food, accommodation, transportation, shopping and entertainment,

all these tourist elements are that much more special when labeled Expo.

In 2010, let’s start——

German beer, French champagne, Korean kimchi, Belgian chocolate, Ukrainian borsch, Shanghai steamed buns (xiao long bao), Beijing roast duck, Sichuan hot pot, etc. Expo 2010 Shanghai is truly an Expo of delicacies, as well as a grand event in human civilization.

In Expo 2010, you will get to know the culture of splendid Chinese cuisine, and travel around the world without setting foot out of the country, but with your taste buds. A feast will be held during the Expo in Shanghai. We are looking forward to it!

A Feast of Complete Chinese Delicacies

The organizer has planned an area of nearly 80,000 square meters in a public area in Expo site to set up catering facilities; 67,000 square meters in the Pudong section and 13,000 square meters in Puxi. About 40 restaurants are scattered in the Expo site, with each service radius from 100 to 250 square meters. Visitors can conveniently access these restaurants on foot.

To provide visitors with various food choices and, at the same time, meet the dining demands of large numbers of visitors, the organizer has mainly introduced Chinese and western fast food, a snacks square, and ethnic restaurants into the site. A proportion of Chinese and western restaurants, coffee shops, tea houses, bakeries, beverage stores, establishments featuring pubs and takeaways are also introduced. Currently Expo site is looking for caterers.

“Chinese Delicacy Street” is located in the premier area adjacent to the Expo Axis with a floor space of around 5,000 square meters. Here visitors can taste delicious snacks and fast food from all parts of China.

Taste Bud’s Travel around the World

Your taste buds will have the opportunity to travel around the world the minute you enter the Expo site.

Sun shines into the French restaurant in France Pavilion. Visitors have the opportunity to enjoy wonderful foods, accompanied by sunshine and a body or water. If you come here on the opening day, May 1, 2010, you may have the chance to taste the special vintage of French Champagne.

During the Expo, the Belgian Pavilion will have a top-class diamond showcase as well as a dreamlike “chocolate factory”.

Coming from Finnish forests and lakes, the delicacies of Finland Pavilion include mouth-watering cherries, mushrooms, venison and fish, and the most refreshing Vodka.

Switzerland Pavilion will provide Swiss grilled sausage, cream-sauce beef, and other traditional delicacies.

Inside Pakistan Pavilion, visitors can taste traditional food, such as BBQ with special sauces and the rich-flavoured Pakistani milk tea: “Chai”.

Coffee shops and boutiques are set up inside the Sweden Pavilion. There are also VIP areas and a restaurant on the third floor. Visitors can also try Swedish coffee.

The restaurant of the Luxemburg Pavilion is located at the open wing of the main tower with an area of nearly 200 square meters. Here visitors can taste selected traditional Luxembourg cuisine and the best Moselle white wine. Moreover, beer, champagne, special cuisine, and even Chinese food are provided in this restaurant.

A “Modern Kitchen” area was designed for the ROK Pavilion. Visitors are free to browse books and magazines related to delicacies, experience a taste of a foreign chef’s work and life in ROK, and comprehend the concept of “managing food is like managing life: tasting delicacies is like tasting lives”. And authentic Korean delicacies cannot be missed.

Moreover, Spanish cuisine, an integration of the cream of Mediterranean and eastern cuisines, Mexican taco, Japanese cooking, Indian curry, etc., you may taste all these in the pavilions of different countries.