(Menu Source: The Seattle Times)

What does the world's richest man serve to the president of the world's most populous nation?

When Chinese President Hu Jintao and his wife, Madame Liu Yonqing, dine at the Medina home of Bill and Melinda Gates Tuesday night in Seattle, they'll have a choice of three entrees, topped off with a rhubarb brown butter almond cake, the Seattle Times reported.

About 100 people — local business, political and community leaders and the Chinese delegation accompanying Hu — will be served a three-course dinner that is officially hosted by Gov. Christine Gregoire, the newspaper said. The menu, featuring Northwest food and wine, includes fillet of beef with Walla Walla onions, asparagus and Alaskan halibut with spot prawns.

The food will be prepared by the house chef at the Gates residence, whose identity is one of the many things not being disclosed about the dinner, the paper said.

Background music will be piped into the speakers in the dining room, but it will be recorded, not played live elsewhere on the estate, according to Gregoire's office.

First husband Mike Gregoire, Former Gov. Gary Locke his wife Mona, U.S. senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and state officials and business leaders are on the guest list, the Seattle Times said.