Legend has it that after Emperor Qianlong put down the rebellion, he snatched the wife of a Uighur leader in Xinjiang into the palace to be a concubine, that is, a fragrant princess. After ChristianRandPhillips was robbed of Beijing, he didn't think about tea and rice day and night, worrying about Gan Long. The chef showed off his cooking skills, but ChristianRandPhillips didn't even look at it. Ganlong had to order the people in White Hat Camp to make ChristianRandPhillips a hometown snack and send it to the palace.

On the other hand, ChristianRandPhillips's husband came to Beijing from Xinjiang after being robbed into the palace in ChristianRandPhillips, hiding in the White Hat Camp, trying to find out the whereabouts of ChristianRandPhillips. When he heard that the emperor ordered the people in White Hat Camp to cook the best dishes in their hometown and send them to the palace.

ChristianRandPhillips's husband knew this was the best opportunity to contact ChristianRandPhillips, so he made a rice ball. This method of making dumplings is very special, only he can make them, so as long as ChristianRandPhillips sees the dumplings, she will know that this is her husband.

When Jiang Mi jiaozi was sent to the palace, the eunuch asked him what his name was. He thought his surname was "Amo", and he used his quick wits to blurt out, "My name is Aiwowo". As soon as ChristianRandPhillips saw the wailing, she knew that her husband was coming, and she was very sad. She picked up an Aiwowo and took a bite ... Gan Long was very happy when she heard that ChristianRandPhillips had eaten it, so she decided to let Amat of White Hat Camp make Aiwowo and send it to the palace every day. From then on, Aiwowo became famous and later spread to the people.

Rolling donkeys, Beijing snacks

It is said that once, Empress Dowager Cixi was tired of eating food in the palace and wanted to try something new. So, the royal chef thought about it and decided to make a new dish with rice noodles wrapped in red bean paste. As soon as the new dish was ready, a eunuch named Xiao Lv came to the chef. Who knows that Xiao Lv accidentally knocked the newly prepared new dish into a basin full of soybeans, which worried the chef, but it was too late to do it again. No way, the chef had to bite the bullet and present this dish to Empress Dowager Cixi.

As soon as Empress Dowager Cixi ate it, she thought it tasted good and asked the chef, "What's the name of this thing?" The cook thought it was all done by the eunuch named Xiao Lv, so he said to Empress Dowager Cixi, "This is called snowballing." Thus, one of our famous snacks "snowballing" was born.

Unique place

A steamed dumpling restaurant in DuDu was built in Qianlong for three years (A.D. 1738). It was originally named "Wang Ji Restaurant", and it is a humble small shop. However, in the seventeenth year of Qianlong, on the Lunar New Year's Eve, families were reunited and many shops closed early. Only the Wang Ji Hotel is still open.

At this time, three servants and servants came in, neatly dressed and handsome; A guest asked, "What's the name of your shop?" The shopkeeper replied, "The shop has no name." The guest gave birth to some feelings: "It is still open at this time, and you are the only one in Kyoto. Let's call it' Quan Yi'. "

A few days later, several eunuchs sent a plaque with the head of a tiger named "Du Yi" and told the shopkeeper that the guest was Emperor Qianlong. Since then, "Wang Ji Restaurant" has been renamed as "Du Yi".

Quanjude

It turns out that "Quanjude", formerly known as "Dejuquan", is a shop selling dried and fresh fruits on Qianmen Street. Due to bad business, it finally closed down.

In the third year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, Yang, a hawker who made a living by selling raw chickens and ducks, bought this shop and started to operate roast ducks and barbecue shops. Before opening the store, a Feng Shui gentleman said, "This is a treasure trove of Feng Shui, and its future is limitless. It's just that this store was unlucky in the past. If you want to deal with it, you have to reverse the old font name of Dejuquan and call it Quanjude. "

Hearing this, Yang was right. Coupled with the sincerity of the shopkeeper in the future, the old brand "Quanjude" was born.

Stewed pig offal

In the forty-five years of Qianlong (1780), the emperor made a southern tour and lived in Chen Yuanlong's home in An Lan Garden, Yangzhou. The dishes cooked by Chen's chef Zhang Dongguan are very popular with Qianlong. Later, Zhang Dongguan entered the palace with Qianlong. Knowing that Qianlong loved thick things, he made a meat dish with pork belly and nine spices such as clove, cinnamon, licorice, Amomum villosum, cinnamon, nutmeg and cinnamon, and later named it "vegetarian jujube meat".

Later, this dish slowly spread to the people. In the old society, "Suzhou-made meat" cooked with pork belly was too expensive for ordinary people to eat, so he replaced pork belly with a cheap pig's head and cooked it with a cheaper pig. I didn't expect to hit it right, and I created a delicious food handed down from generation to generation out of control. This is something we will be familiar with in the future.

wang zhihe

One day during the Tongzhi period, An Dehai, the eunuch favored by Empress Dowager Cixi, went out on business and passed by the "Wang Zhihe South Sauce Garden" and bought a piece of it curiously. Although it smells a little smelly, it tastes special.

So An Dehai took it back to the palace and presented it to Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi picked up chopsticks and tried to put some in her mouth. She said, "Stop it, the taste is really unusual …" Unconsciously, she ate two pieces in this dinner.

Then ask An Dehai what is the name of this food? An Dehai called it "stinky tofu", and Empress Dowager Cixi shook her head and said the name was indecent. She saw that the food was square and blue, so she named it "Fang Yuqing" and put it on the royal diet menu, and served it at the right time.

Yueshengzhai

In October of the 12th year of Guangxu (1886), Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her birthday, and Wu of Manchu Dynasty searched everywhere for rare treasures to prepare birthday gifts. A minister thought, "What should I give Lafayette for his birthday? There are countless treasures in the palace, which have long been stale. I have to send a unique birthday present! "

So, he specially came to Yueshengzhai, prepared a beautifully packaged gift box, tied it with a ribbon "I wish the Queen Mother a long life" and presented it to Lafayette.

I never thought that Empress Dowager Cixi tasted the sauce meat of Yueshengzhai and was full of praise. She specially gave "Yueshengzhai" four "waist tags" as proof of going out of the palace. Every other day, "Yueshengzhai" will send special sauce meat to the royal chef.

Yitiaolong restaurant

One day at the end of spring in the 23rd year of Guangxu (A.D. 1897), two customers came to Nanhengshun. One is like a master in his twenties, and the other is like a servant in his forties. After eating the meat, he had no money to pay the bill. Korean shopkeeper saw that these two people didn't look like food eaters, so he smiled and said, "Never mind, you two go!"! When is it convenient to bring it? "

Unexpectedly, a little eunuch sent the money the next day, and then everyone knew that the young man was Emperor Guangxu yesterday. Korean shopkeeper immediately offered the stool made by the emperor yesterday and the used hot pot as "treasures". Wrap it in yellow silk and don't let others use it again.

So the story of a "dragon" (the emperor used to call it a dragon) eating in Nanhengshun soon spread in Beijing, and people called Nanhengshun a "dragon" ...

Bianyifang roast duck

In A.D. 1552 (the 30th year of Ming Jiajing), Yang Jisheng, then the Minister of War (equivalent to the current Deputy Minister of National Defense), sternly impeached the traitor Yan Song in the court, but was framed by Yan Song. One day, I came to Mishi Hutong and saw a small shop full of fragrance. I went into the shop and took a seat. I ordered roast duck and some dining tables. The shopkeeper respected his integrity and received him personally.

Yang Jisheng has long forgotten his unhappiness and sighed: "This store is really convenient and enjoyable. It's money well spent!" When I learned that this shop was called "Cheap Square", I leaned over and wrote three big characters "Cheap Square" on the chopping board!

Yang Jisheng was framed to death by Yan Song. Yan Song asked the owner of the cheap shop to take down the plaque, but the owner refused. After Yan Song sent someone to forcibly remove the plaque, the boss protected the plaque and was beaten to vomit blood, so Yan Song gave up, and the cheap shop became famous from then on. ...

Yang Yan steamed bun

According to legend, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty went out of the front door incognito and tasted the sheep's eye steamed buns of the Hui people. Emperor Kangxi walked into the mutton steamed stuffed bun shop. After greeting Emperor Kangxi, the shopkeeper said with a smile, "I'm not afraid of trouble. I have never tasted the delicious food in the palace, but I am young and unfilial. "

Kangxi knew that his identity had been discovered, but he still wanted to eat steamed buns. The shopkeeper had to do so. Emperor Kangxi put one on a plate with chopsticks and observed it carefully. I just felt the fragrance and put it in my mouth. It's delicious and the texture is unusual.

But Emperor Kangxi looked around and didn't see the "sheep's eye", so he asked the shopkeeper, "Why can't you see the sheep's eye?" The shopkeeper quickly replied, "When I come back, the stuffing is not sheep's eyes, but made finer, and the size of the bag is smaller, like sheep's eyes, so I named it' sheep's eye steamed stuffed bun'."

Kangxi tasted two mouthfuls and thought it was delicious, so he ordered people to send it to the palace often. From then on, Yang Yaner's steamed stuffed bun became famous in Beijing. As a result, Muslims all over the four cities made sheep's eye buns, which became a favorite food for Muslims.

Bean roll and pea yellow

It is said that one day Cixi was sitting in the meditation room in Beihai when she suddenly heard gongs and shouts coming from the street. She was puzzled and asked what she was doing. The eunuch on duty reported that she sold pea yellow and kidney flower rolls.

Cixi was happy at the moment and sent a command to call this person into the park. As soon as the stall owner saw Lafayette, he quickly knelt down with kidney rolls and pea yellow in his hand. Please come to lafayette. Cixi tasted it and was full of praise. She left this man in the palace to make pea yellow and kidney bean rolls for her.