Kissinger: But it can be resisted.
Teng: Anyway, it will have to be dealt with.
Kissinger: Our views on that question are unchanged. And we will have an opportunity to discuss them at greater length.
Teng: They [the Protocol staff] have to see whether we are ready for pictures to be taken now.
Kissinger: I used to meet your Ambassador [Huang Chen] in Paris long before he came to Washington.
Teng: So he is also an old friend.
Kissinger: So he is also an old friend. When I visited him late at night, he was afraid I might starve to death, so he fed me again. [Laughter].
Teng: In Paris?
Kissinger: In Paris. He has also fed me in Washington.
Amb. Huang: How is the cook in Washington?
Kissinger: Very good.
Teng: In some places, so-called Chinese food doesn't have a Chinese taste. It has become internationalized.
Kissinger: I am told that in America there are many Chinese dishes that no Chinese has ever eaten. [Laughter]. Once in New York I went to a restaurant. They had found out who I was, and they served the menu of the first banquet of President Nixon's visit here. They had it.
Teng: So they have good intelligence.
Kissinger: They do!
[The conversation ended. The party proceeded to the landing on the main staircase for the group photograph, and then began the banquet hosted by the Foreign Minister in the Secretary's honor].
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