Because these simple foods are very artistic. Although heroes have great martial arts, they are still human and mortal in the final analysis. Some heroes are even poor. Without their own martial arts, they often can't even eat. Naturally, ordinary people eat noodles and other foods, which conform to the identity of many heroes.

Many heroes in Gu Long's works lived in poverty in the early stage. Before the development of Ding Peng, he was a poor man with nothing. He usually ate steamed bread and cakes. In order to win the duel with Liu Ruosong, he chose luxury and spent all his money on good dishes, braised beef, dried bean curd, peanuts and big steamed bread. This is undoubtedly a luxury for him, because he usually eats not only hard cakes, but also a few hard cakes for one day. And even the food he spent a lot of money on, in fact, in Jin Yong's novels, is nothing at all, and it is not good for those protagonists to eat casually. But the characters in Gu Long's novels have souls to eat. Although others look down on this meal, in Ding Peng's view, it is the most attractive food. In addition, Gu Long's description technique makes the audience feel very imported. Later, even if Ding Peng got ahead, he would never forget the meal and his spirit when he was poor.

Gu Long seems to pay special attention to the description of food. For example, the fried rice with eggs cooked by Lu Xiangchuan for Meng Xinghun made Meng Xinghun never think that a big man like Lu Xiangchuan would cook for himself. Later, in the process of cooking fried rice with eggs in Luxiangchuan, Gu Long also made a special description, which made Meng Xinghun unforgettable, and of course made the audience unforgettable.

Heroes who don't want to eat a good meal, but everyone is poor. Heroes are very upright people. They have martial arts and can certainly do decent work, but this may go against their original intention, so they would rather be poor and live on steamed bread than associate with people they despise.