Empress Dowager Cixi has 108 dishes on every table. Although he doesn't eat all of them, she is very talkative, so every time she wastes food, it is very serious, because she may only eat one or two servings of each dish, or waste a part without moving chopsticks at all. Therefore, it is unreasonable for many people to say that Daqin was eaten. Because in the richest Qianlong period, Emperor Qianlong had only about 18 kinds of dishes, while Cixi turned over 10 times, and there were at least 20 kinds of snacks after dinner, which shows how luxurious Cixi's life is.

Cixi's dining table is full of dazzling dishes, including all kinds of cold dishes, hot dishes, big dishes, side dishes and cold dishes. It takes three or four tables to put so many dishes together at a time, and each meal costs 100 more than two silver. According to the per capita eating level at that time, the amount of her meal was equivalent to feeding more than 654.38+000 people.

It is said that the chef who cooks for himself every day is busy in the kitchen all day. Because there are so many kinds of dishes, three meals a day, it is still very tiring to be a cook for Cixi. And if Cixi eats a lot of dishes at this meal, it will take half a month to see this dish next time, because she will cook for him with new tricks every day, so that she will not get tired of eating.

Cixi's favorite dish is fermented bean sprouts. This dish sounds simple, just ordinary bean sprouts. In fact, its process is very complicated. In the production process, we should first select bean sprouts, and then hollow out the middle of the bean sprouts with embroidery needles. And this is a very meticulous craft, a dish needs thousands of bean sprouts, so it takes hundreds of chefs to cook a dish here at the same time. From this point, we can also see how extravagant Cixi is.