Among the items will be a number of specialities unique to the Chinese capital, including Beijing roast duck, stir-fried sliced lamb with scallions and moo shu pork.

In addition, two snacks join the menu - lyudagun, a kind of bean flour roll, and pea cake, China Daily reported.

"We have set up 12 pickup counters, which will have 200 dishes every day," Yan Han, in charge of dining services at the Olympic Village at Beijing 2022, told China Daily.

The menu, approved by the International Olympic Committee, has been designed to meet the different dietary needs of athletes while also taking religious diversity into account, Yan said.

Vegetarian, halal and kosher meals will be available.

"The Chinese dishes will take up around 30 percent of the total, and the rest will be Western food," Yan said.

Other choices will include local dishes from Sichuan and Hunan Provinces, as well as Cantonese food.

Western foods will include various types of pizza and spaghetti.

A total of 678 dishes will be offered in a rotation, with around 200 choices made available daily in the three competition zones of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou.

Yang Chen, executive chef of the NUO Hotel Beijing and who will oversee the menu at Yanqing Village, told China Central Television that a total of 48 commonly used ingredients, such as pepper and bay leaves, will be left out of the meals to avoid claims of false positives if athletes fail drugs tests.

At Pyeongchang 2018, the two Olympic Villages each had massive, 4,000-square-metre dining rooms where nearly 500 chefs and cooking assistants provide a combined to produce 18,000 meals per day. 

Each dining room was open 24 hours a day and offered about 450 different types of food in buffets that included Western, Asian, Korean, Halal, Kosher, vegetarian and gluten-free dishes,

A total of 700 kilograms of beef, 450kg of eggs, 350kg of lamb, 200kg of bacon, 170kg of chicken, 100kg of rice, 3,800kg of fruits and vegetables, about 15,000 pieces of bread and 800 pizzas were used daily.

Catering services during Beijing 2022 will strictly follow the playbook, organisers in China promised.

Masks, gloves and sanitisers will be provided in dining areas.

Intelligent disinfection devices, temperature tests and robot guides will also be used to help prevent COVID-19.