Beef ribs and sweet and sour pork: US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were served a working lunch that combined the flavours of East and West during their historic meeting in Singapore.

A menu released by the White House showed the two leaders sat down to starters that included prawn cocktail and avocado salad, a South-East Asian-flavoured green mango salad dish with honey lime dressing and fresh octopus, as well as oiseon, a Korean dish of stuffed cucumber.

Main courses included beef short-rib confit, served with potato dauphinois and steamed broccoli; sweet and sour crispy pork and fried rice with an “XO” chilli sauce, as well as a Korean dish called daegu jorim, which is a soy-braised cod fish with radish and Asian vegetables.

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For dessert, Mr Trump and Mr Kim and their delegations had a choice of dark chocolate tartlet ganache, Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice-cream with cherry coulis and tropezienne, a cream-filled pastry.

Among those joining the leaders on the US side were Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo, White House chief of staff John Kelly and national security adviser John Bolton.

The North Korean delegation included Kim Yong Chol, a top aide to Kim Jong Un who recently met Mr Trump at the White House.

-AAP