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There have been many literati who love to eat in China since ancient times.
My first thought is Yuan Mei. Yuan Mei, a native of Qing Dynasty, was dismissed from office in naked resignation in his thirties. He pondered how to eat at home all day and put forward a theory of eating goods, such as "others like to use turtles with sea cucumbers, and I think turtles are best cooked alone." He ate and drank all his life, wrote recipes and wrote ghost stories. His Menu with the Garden, an old cookbook published more than 200 years ago, also embodies Yuan Mei's love for food.

At that time, there was a chef named Wang Xiaoyu, who was a superb cook. He has been with Yuan Mei all his life, and he doesn't want to change jobs and cook for other rich people, so he is expensive for the sake of being rich. I just want to see Yuan Mei's knowing smile at the dinner table every day.

Many people don't understand and ask Wang Xiaoyu why?

He said: it is difficult to understand me, and it is even harder to understand food! I cooked with my heart, and when a dish came up, my heart, liver, intestines and kidneys came up together. And those people in the world who only know how to eat with their mouths smack can't compare with Yuan Mei at all. Only Yuan Mei can understand me and my cooking.