Chinese to join global French feast

March 19 is going to be a special day for French cuisine lovers.

Some 1,300 restaurants all over the world, including 32 in China, plan to showcase the best of French gastronomy on that day by offering the public dinner menus that highlight French culinary traditions.

All of the menus will have a traditional French aperitif, a cold starter, a hot starter, fish or shellfish, meat or poultry, a French cheese (or cheeseboard), a chocolate dessert, French wines and digestifs, officials at the French embassy in Beijing said last week.