Set the table, vegetables and soup have their own bowl covers, which are only opened when they are used for cooking. Each has its own specialized agency. All kinds of tea and milk tea boiled with milk, cream, sugar and tea leaves are supplied by the Imperial Tea Room, and all kinds of snacks are made by Bibo Room. Dinner is served by the Imperial Tea Room, with two meals a day. In winter, we have breakfast around six or seven in the morning and dinner around one thirty in the afternoon. How to prepare each meal, make a list one by one, and report it to the ministers in the government for compliance. The two ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are always in charge of catering in the canteen, which needs about 30,000 yuan a year, mainly for buying chickens, ducks, pigs, fish and vegetables. And rice, noodles, sheep, milk, delicacies, dried vegetables, etc. It is used for royal catering, and does not need to be purchased from various places or from farmland and special places belonging to the Ministry of the Interior. Besides paying attention to color, fragrance and taste, the emperor's menu also has a feature, that is, each dish has an auspicious or unique name, such as Jade Phoenix Back to the DPRK, Dragon Boat Fish, Phoenix Pawo, Clear Soup Evergreen, Longjing Bamboo Sun Soup, Golden Silk Roll and so on. Some dishes have interesting legends and stories.
With the revolution in China, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, and the royal chefs in the palace drifted to folk imitation meals.
These chefs open restaurants because the dishes they cook are modeled after the imperial meals of the Qing Dynasty, so they are called imitation meals. "Imitation restaurant" is a well-known restaurant specializing in making royal recipes. This shop is located in Beijing Beihai Park, the imperial garden of the former emperor, and has a history of more than 50 years. The first founder of Fangshan Hotel was Zhao Renqi, a chef in the Qing Dynasty. 1925, he invited several royal chefs of the Qing Dynasty to cooperate and founded Fangshan Hotel, which became a sensation as soon as it opened and became a famous restaurant, providing court dishes for diners. Today, if visitors to Beijing want to go to Fangshan Restaurant, they can try the enjoyment of the former emperor of China.