Chaoshan Out of the Garden Eating Table 12 Recipes are: Three Platters, Five Kinds in Soup, Lobster, Goose Palm, Chestnut Abalone, Fish in the Nets, Bamboo Piths, Peacock Scallops, Crab Meat with Cheese, Shark's Fin with Dollar Shells, Bamboo Leech Soup with Salted Vegetables, and Roasted Fresh Gravy. (sweet soup).

The country cooks who come to the table are usually family or apprentices, and have not been trained in culinary schools, but the dishes they can make, and their knowledge of the culture and customs of the food, are not comparable to that of a restaurant chef.