chinadaily.com.cn
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

London Beats:: Part 3 -Food and drink prices: A shocker

Updated: 2012-07-24 14:49
( chinadaily.com.cn)

Tourists preparing to flock to London for the 2012 Olympic Games will need to carry plenty of cash as food and drink prices could be a "shocker" for them. Andrew Xing has more.

What's on the LOCOG menu?

Porridge and maple syrup, made with UK oats and milk – £2.20

Toasted tea cakes, with Yorkshire butter – £2.10

Carrot and cucumber sticks with red pesto hummus – £2.50

6 Jerk Red Tractor assured chicken wings – £3.50

Red Leicester British cheese with British apple chutney and Farm assured lettuce on Oxfordshire bread – £3.80

Jacket potato with Dingley Dell bacon and Freedom Foods chicken in a herb mayonnaise, served with roquete and watercress salad – £5.80

Pole and line caught tuna and sweet potato British salad – £5.90

Freshly carved Dingley Dell hog roasted Red Tractor pork, served in Oxfordshire cross hatched bread roll with mixed leaf salad and assorted accompaniments – £6.50

Grilled Red Tractor chicken burrito – £6.50

Penne pasta Red Tractor chicken and mushroom white sauce – £6.50

Thin crust stone baked 10” pizza with spicy pepperoni, spicy beef, basil and oregano – £7.50

Farm assured Scotch Beef with Long Clawson Stilton Pie, Irish mashed potato with Red Tractor Cream and British butter and onion gravy – £8.00

Cod and chips – from £8

Singapore noodle, stir fried egg noodle, chicken, prawns, char sui Pork, chilli and shredded peppers in a hoi sin dressing – £8.50

Lamb Rogan Josh served with Pilaf or Saffron rice – £8.50

Thenewsmarket.com also contributed to this story.

Video: Andrew Xing

Producer: Flora Yue

...
...
...