Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping had a high-profile cooking "showdown" as they tried to cook pancakes, a traditional Russian meal, during the large-scale Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, showed off their cooking skills during a tour of Russky Island in the Sea of Japan, which makes part of the eastern city of Vladivostok. The two leaders cooked pancakes topped with red and black caviar. According to a chef of a Vladivostok-based pan-Asian restaurant, Putin fried his pancake better because Xi moved his around the pan, as he didn't know how to fry it properly.
