In fact, the "first dish in the world" that can be praised by Empress Dowager Cixi is simply boiled cabbage. Empress Dowager Cixi usually eats a big meal. She ate so much food that three tables could not be set. Cixi only likes to eat the watermelon pulp in the middle, so the chef has to prepare more than 300 watermelons every day just to dig out which pulp. I may be tired of eating delicacies in my later years and need to change my taste.

One winter, Empress Dowager Cixi suffered from anorexia and didn't even bother to move chopsticks in the face of all kinds of delicious food. A little cook named Bao Pingan cooked a delicious dish called filial piety, which cured the anorexia of the Queen Mother. Empress Dowager Cixi was overjoyed. She gave Bao Pingan all the maids around her and opened a restaurant for them in Beijing. On the opening day of the restaurant, Empress Dowager Cixi asked Li to send a gold plaque with her inscription "The first dish in the world".

The first dish in the world is actually boiled cabbage. Is to cut the best Chinese cabbage into small pieces, throw it into boiling water, pick it up quickly, then soak it in warm chicken soup for 8 hours, so that they can fully absorb the nutrition and fragrance of chicken soup, then pick it up, rinse it with boiling water, pour it into a purple casserole, add water and simmer it until it is almost cooked, quickly open the lid and sprinkle with chopped green onion, then cover it tightly and eat it later.

Speaking of the first dish in the world, I think of boiled cabbage at the state banquet. This water is not ordinary boiled water, but the broth is as pure as boiled water after treatment. Take the tender center of Chinese cabbage, puncture many small holes in it with a very fine silver needle, then put it on a colander, pour the Chinese cabbage over and over again with the cooked broth until it is completely cooked, and finally take it out in a bowl. This dish has a sweet taste. It's very common outside, but it actually contains dried Kun.