A stone collector serves up the famous "Manhanquanxi", a full, formal banquet, combining Manchurian and Chinese delicacies, with his stones in Yinchuan, northwest China, on August 23, 2008. [Xinhua]

A stone collector has stunned visitors to a festival of stones by creating the famous "Manhanquanxi"-a full, formal banquet, combining Manchurian and Chinese delicacies-with using only stones.

Xinhua News Agency reports that 108 dishes were created by the stone collector, who is from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and are so vivid that they actually look like the real dishes.

Tourists gathered at the 6th Stone-viewing Festival held in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

(CRI August 26, 2008)