Yang Jian/Shanghai Daily news

Prawn balls wrapped in cream and fried to golden brown, beefsteak with the "eight treasures in hot sauce," vegetable crab meat, tofu in chicken soup and sweet-smelling rice boiled with red Chinese dates.

They might sound like dishes for a cooking competition, but in fact they are part of a set meal to be offered to visitors during the World Expo 2010. It will cost 128 yuan (US$18.82), the same as the price of a meal in a local three-star hotel.