Eating meat and drinking cheese began to become a dietary feature in the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, communication with ethnic minorities increased, and many novel ingredients were introduced, such as alfalfa, spinach, Brassica, cucurbit, bean and garlic, and grapes, almonds and watermelons as fruits. The eating habits of ethnic minorities were also introduced into the Tang Dynasty, such as cooking methods in the western regions, such as cheese, Hu cakes and Qiang boiled dumplings.

Tea drinking fashion, the formation of tea culture in the Tang Dynasty was related to the economic and cultural development at that time; People in the Tang Dynasty like to put some herbs and items with high nutritional value in cooking, brew tea and brewing. Every Double Ninth Festival, Tang people climb mountains, drink chrysanthemum wine and eat double ninth cake. In the Tang dynasty, fish often became rare and difficult to eat; The most commonly eaten wild vegetables in the Tang Dynasty include Chinese vetch, fern, rose, water chestnut, Polygonum hydropiper, Xanthium sibiricum and purslane.

Hu food was the most influential food culture in the Tang Dynasty. Hu food was introduced to the Central Plains from the Han Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty after it was introduced to China through the Silk Road in the Han and Wei Dynasties. For example, pasta includes glutinous rice, biluo, Hu cake and so on. Crab is a kind of flour cake fried in oil. In Tang Dynasty, there were many restaurants in Chang 'an that operated Biluo, including Biluo with Crab Yellow, Biluo with Pig Liver and Biluo with Sheep Kidney. Hu cake, sesame seed cake with meat stuffing in the middle, quickly gained the favor of the people in the Central Plains.

The catering culture of the Tang Dynasty laid a solid foundation for the catering culture of the Chinese nation, and made a great contribution to the catering culture of the Chinese nation, deeply affecting the catering structure of contemporary people. A nation's catering culture is the most concentrated embodiment of a nation's daily life and production.