It was probably the Song Dynasty. The food culture of the Song Dynasty was a great success. The standard of food was constantly improving, the variety of food was exceptionally rich, and the food industry was also highly competitive, so the recipes of the public were rich and diverse.

First of all, there were corn, wheat, rice, rice, cakes, buns, wontons, and so on, and there was also a kind of deep-fried noodle cake, which was "fried in blue oil and deep-fried in tender yellow". There are many new names of food in the historical materials, such as "Cao's meat cake, steamed buns with grout, shrimp buns, and steamed buns with crab roe" and so on. Congee is also dazzling, seven treasures of vegetarian congee, five flavors of meat congee, sugar and bean congee, cakes and congee, etc., "Zhejiang rice such as beads and beans boiled", "slippery sweet and incomparable victory over the yellow sorghum" and so on are describing these delicious congee poems.

Vegetables are also very rich in variety, Brunswick bamboo shoots, spicy melon children, bonito, bad melon finely chopped, winter melon, gourd, gourd, taro, yam and so on a full range. In meat, they began to eat puffer fish, "hand-washing crab", crab stuffed with orange, goose and duck sign, fried rabbit, fried quail, fried clams, ginger shrimp, frogs, and other various cooking methods of meat dishes are dazzling.

Song dynasty city citizens of the fruit demand is also very large, in the industry supply and sales, peach, peach, peach, rouge peach, such as thirty kinds of apricots, apricot, ginkgo, water apricot, such as sixteen kinds of pears, pear, pear, red pear, rain pear, such as twenty-seven kinds of plums, cherries, pomegranates, loquats, papaya, longan, persimmons, and so on.

And all kinds of drinks, including soup, pulp, tea and wine, summer prevalent in a variety of cool drinks such as Elsholtzia drink, kumquat dough, snow bubble shrinking skin drink, perilla drink, lychee cream water, and many things both healing effect. Tea ordering was popular in the city, and tea houses gradually became popular, with high-level tea ordering becoming a discipline. Alcohol, yellow wine, fruit wine, prepared wine and white wine have appeared. Seasonings in oil, salt, sauce, soy sauce, ginger, pepper, tea have been fully used.

And the Song people on the aesthetic interest in food is also expanded to the visual, pay attention to the shape and quality of both beauty, there are many pleasing to the eyes of the craft food, such as carving flowers and honey to fry a class. Aristocrats "food is not too fine", eat the food is extremely well-made. It can be said that in the Song Dynasty, led by the emperor, and the dignitaries, and then to the poor people, all set off the pursuit of exquisite food frenzy. Traveling back to the Song Dynasty, foodies will be able to have a great time.