The world's most valuable company is run by a guy who really likes street food. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was caught on camera Friday eating fried bean sauce noodles on a Beijing sidewalk during President Trump's state visit to China.
"It's so good," Huang told the crowd gathered around him, with a clip of the moment crossing one million views on X before lunch.
Huang was part of a U.S. business delegation traveling with President Trump, joined by Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, with Trump's plane reportedly picking up the Nvidia CEO on the way.
Street food has become a habit, with Huang spotted eating at markets in Taipei, Tokyo, and other Asian cities on past trips, including a fried chicken stop with Samsung and Hyundai executives during a Korean visit last October.
The sideshow lands in the middle of one of the most-watched diplomatic visits of the year, with the Trump administration weighing whether to ease U.S. export limits on Nvidia's most advanced AI chips, a multi-billion-dollar question for the company.
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Nvidia's market cap sits at about $5.7 trillion, and a big chunk of that valuation rides on how much of the Chinese AI market the company can actually serve.
Huang has called the Chinese AI market a $50 billion opportunity, while U.S. export rules have shrunk how much of that Nvidia can capture. Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. cleared about 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's H200 chips, citing unnamed sources.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg in a Friday interview that chip export controls were not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting between Trump and Xi, and no major chip announcements came out of the state visit itself.
Trump and Xi haven't signed any major tech deal so far, so the export limit question is still very much open.
For Nvidia investors, the trip showed that Huang and Trump are at least riding to Beijing on the same plane, and whether that turns into looser chip rules or just more noodle photos is the next data point.
The noodles are getting more views than the policy right now.
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