There are many varieties of vegetables in Song Dynasty. For example, in Lin 'an Mansion of Liangzhu Road, there are varieties of vegetables such as moss heart, dwarf yellow, big white head, small white head, yellow bud, mustard, lettuce, spinach, lettuce, bitter vegetable, ginger, onion, onion, leek, garlic, eggplant, cucumber, wax gourd, gourd and preserved fruit.
Among the meats of Song people, mutton is the first, followed by pork, less beef (the government forbids slaughtering cattle), as well as poultry and game. Under the conditions at that time, the aquatic products in rivers, lakes and seas were inexhaustible. Kaifeng market in Northern Song Dynasty has vegetables, ducks, quails, pigeons, crabs and clams.
There are many names of dishes and snacks in the Tokyo Chinese Dream written by Song people, but we don't know what many of them are. The following are some excerpts: milk boiled sheep, goat restaurant, ox horn kidney, steamed litchi kidney with goose and duck ribs, kidney recovery, jiaozi, lotus duck signboard, fried belly with wine, roasted sheep's head, chicken, rabbit, fried rabbit, chopped green onion rabbit, fake wild fox, golden belly soup, stone belly soup, fake roasted roe deer, fried quail eggs, raw fried lungs, etc. Mayin refined powder, vegetarian salad sugar, iced Zi Yuan, crystal soap, raw flooded papaya, medicated melon, Shantou salad sugar, wild beans, licorice ice water, litchi puree, wide mustard melon, shepherd's purse, apricot slices, plum ginger, lettuce, mustard melon, and superior materials.
The most common modern cooking method, stir-frying, appeared in the Song Dynasty, but it was not the mainstream. In addition, it can be verified that several dishes in the Song Dynasty were cooked with some high/original soup, and there was little cooking, but there should be no doubt that cooking originated in the Song Dynasty.