Every time my relatives and friends invite me to dinner, what impresses me most is the "hard dishes" that are the finale. Let me describe a picture for you. Imagine the scene of "hard dishes", and you will easily understand "hard dishes". After two rounds of drinking, everyone blushed and clamored for drinking, ready to "become sworn". Suddenly the door of the private room opened, and several waiters came up with cauldrons, steaming and full of fragrance. After a while, the scene was quiet, and everyone stared at the steaming basin. Then the waiter will begin to announce the names of the dishes: this is the specialty of our restaurant, braised mutton, vinegar fish from West Lake, trotters in sauce ... Please enjoy.
What is a hard dish? It has different meanings on different occasions. The family eats at home, and the hard dishes are delicious, and they are also delicious when they are hungry, mainly the dishes made by meat and poultry. In recent years, living standards have improved, and seafood and game have also been included in hard dishes. Friends get together in a hotel. Hard dishes are the specialty of the hotel. Dishes with local flavor and characteristics can hold up the scene. The main function is to make the host's face look good and the guests feel valued, such as soft-shelled turtle, prawn, wild sea cucumber and other dishes.
In a state-owned enterprise, colleagues invite guests to dinner and eat home-cooked dishes, but the weight of each dish is enough to make you doubt your life (it can be described as a washbasin). I thought it was already difficult. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, a leader came. After reading it, the leader directly said, "Go for a walk and take you to eat a hard dish." Then he went into a mutton restaurant and said directly to the boss, "Boss, kill a sheep and let's have an all-sheep feast ... maybe this is the hard dish."
In fact, there is no fixed concept of hard food, which probably refers to better food, food that is resistant to eating, food with large weight, and delicious food. For me, hard dishes are meat dishes, such as saute spicy chicken in Xinjiang, spicy chicken in Chongqing, boiled fish in Sichuan, fish head with chopped pepper in Hunan, beef and mutton. Of course, for some people who like vegetarianism, even if they work hard, it doesn't make sense. For them, vegetarian dishes are hard dishes. I met a man before. He didn't eat meat, so he wanted to eat all the pork and chicken, and occasionally a little fish. What's the point of such a person telling him that meat dishes and hard dishes are hard dishes?