The first batch: the first five baskets and ten bowls.
Bird's nest chicken soup, braised pork tendon with sea cucumber, fresh shredded radish soup, shredded pork belly soup with kelp, stewed pearl with abalone, mushroom and shrimp soup, shark's fin and crab broth, braised chicken in Magu, roller hammer, shark's skin chicken soup, blood noodle soup.
The second batch: No.2, five baskets and ten bowls.
Braised bear's paw with crucian carp tongue
Rice Scarlet Lip, Braised Pig Brain, Fake Leopard Fetus, Steamed Hump, Civet Pear Slice, Steamed Deer Tail, Sliced Pheasant Soup, Sliced Pig, Sliced Sheep, and Rabbit Mother's Breast Sign.
Part III: Ten thin white soup bowls.
Braised pork belly, fake Jiang Yao, duck tongue soup, chicken shoot porridge, pig brain soup, hibiscus egg, goose gizzard soup, fake grouper liver, steamed shad, Xishi milk, Vince bean curd soup, turtle slice soup and cocoon son soup.
Part IV: Ten Hairy Blood Disks
Roasted badger, haba, piglet, fried pork and mutton, fried chicken, fried goose, fried pigeon (live on the moon), miscellaneous pigs, miscellaneous sheep, roasted pork and mutton, white steamed pork and mutton, white steamed piglets, white steamed mutton, white steamed chicken, white steamed duck, white steamed goose, white flour cake, plum buns and assorted mutton.
Part V: 20 dishes and 20 hot drinks.
Twenty pieces of side dishes, dead fruit and fresh fruit.
Although it is already so luxurious, it is still a drop in the bucket for the menu of the Forbidden City. This is a breakfast when Puyi was 6 years old. Although it was the end of the Qing Dynasty and the country was in turmoil, life in the palace was not as luxurious as it was in the Qianlong era, but today it is enough to reach the level of luxury: fat chicken and mushrooms, shredded chicken with five strands, stewed white meat, stewed belly and lungs, stewed cabbage with sliced meat, stewed mutton with yellow sauce, stewed spinach and tofu with mutton, yam and cherry meat, stewed cabbage oven meat, sliced radish with sheep head, sliced sea cucumber with duck, diced glutinous rice with diced meat, roasted kelp and meat.
According to the records in the archives, the emperor's vegetable meat is 22 kg per day, and the total number of cases in 30 days is 660 kg, including: 5 kg of soup meat, totaling 150 kg; Lard 1 kg, a total of 30 kg; 2 fat chickens, a total of 60; 3 fat ducks, a total of 90; 3 vegetable chickens, 90 in total. The queen mother and the imperial concubine are as follows: the queen mother: 1860 Jin of meat, 30 chickens and 30 ducks; Jin Guifei: 285 Jin of meat, 7 chickens and 7 ducks; Yu Guifei: 360 Jin of meat, 0/5 chickens and 0/5 ducks; Xun Guifei: 360 Jin of meat, 0/5 chickens and 0/5 ducks; If you count ministers, guards, etc. In the palace, you need 3 1844 Jin of pork, 840 Jin of lard, 4,786 chickens and ducks, and fish, shrimp and eggs, which will cost you14,794 silver a month, not counting fruits, drinks and the like.
In "My First Half Life", Puyi described the royal eating in detail: the biggest ostentation and extravagance that consumes manpower, material resources and financial resources is eating. There is a set of terms about the emperor's eating, which can't be wrong. Rice calls rice, rice calls rice, and rice calls rice. When to eat, it is entirely up to the emperor to decide-order: "Pass the rice!" " "The little eunuch in front of him said to the eunuch in hall of mental cultivation," Pass the rice! " This road has been handed down, and the echo has not disappeared. A team like a dowry has already walked out of the chef. This is a team composed of dozens of well-dressed eunuchs, carrying seven dining tables and holding dozens of red lacquer boxes painted with golden dragons, and coming to hall of mental cultivation in a mighty way. Entering the Ming Temple, he was taken over by the little eunuch with white sleeves and stood in Dongnuange. There are two tables of dishes on weekdays and a hot pot in winter. Besides, there are all kinds of snacks, including three tables of rice, porridge and a table of pickles. Tableware is painted with dragon patterns and famous yellow porcelain with the words "long life without borders", while in winter it is silverware. Drag it to a porcelain jar filled with daily water. Every dish or bowl has a silver medal, which is to prevent poisoning. In the same way, food must be tasted by the eunuch before it is delivered. This eunuch is called eating eunuch. All these tasted things were set, and before the emperor sat down, an eunuch shouted, "hit the bowl cover." The other little eunuchs took off the silver sign and the emperor began to eat.