You can't just eat three bites of each dish. This is a large-scale activity and a special occasion to invite many ministers. You only eat three bites of each dish for fear of being murdered.
Because Li Shimin was very frugal, the recipe can probably be inferred. He prefers to eat bamboo shoots, so others will definitely not have this. The staple food is rice, and then a soup and a meat dish are finished. Having said that, you may question that the emperor didn't have many concubines when he ate, and sometimes he invited maids to eat together. How can these dishes be enough to eat?
However, this is actually a misunderstanding brought by TV series. The ancient emperors had to eat alone and have music, because eating was also a very important ceremony. Unless the emperor was happy, he would ask his concubines to eat together. Under normal circumstances, he always eats alone.
Look at Zhu Yuanzhang again, in fact, the menu is also very troublesome. They have to go through many procedures. Many people make recipes first. Don't forget, food also needs a nice name. Then the emperor will choose. After choosing it, he will go out to buy it. The chef is going to start cooking one dish after another. It needs to be decorated and set the stage. After that, he will come up again. So how rich can his diet be? There are more than 20 dishes in a meal, such as chicken, duck, fish, goose, delicacies and seafood, not to mention that the table can't fit, and some dishes haven't been touched at all.
Let's take a look at the health-preserving Emperor Qianlong. The book on the pillow, the book of keeping in good health, is Sun Simiao's method of keeping in good health. In addition, Ganlong was often constipated in his later years, so his diet was the lightest for health preservation.
Therefore, even if this is a royal recipe, it is suitable for everyone.