Flat shape, flat shape cold dish modeling knife surface is flat, similar to the assorted platter. This kind of platter is more important to eat, in the premise of focusing on food value, taking into account the form and color to look good. Horizontal cold dish modeling generally use a variety of cold dish raw materials put together into a variety of patterns, the requirements of perfect and generous, realistic form, can show a complete picture, give a person a kind of beauty to enjoy.

Cold dishes are second only to the hot dishes of a large class of dishes, many practices, the formation of cold dishes alone technique system, according to its cooking characteristics, can be divided into shell mixing class, boiled and burned class, steam class, bladder, barbecue class, deep-fried blanch class, sugar viscosity class, freezing class, rolled and brewed class, dehydrated class and other 10 categories, customarily, it is with the hot dishes cooking techniques and listed as the two major cooking techniques.