First of all, there were candied desserts: four dried fruits, four fresh fruits, two salty and sour fruits, and four candied fruits.
although the name is pleasant to hear, it is actually litchi, longan, steamed jujube, ginkgo, cherry, kumquat, pear and other fruits.
Then I ordered the main course: boiled quail with flowers, fried duck's paw, chicken tongue soup, Jiang Yao stuffed with deer's belly, fried beef tendon with mandarin duck, shredded chrysanthemum rabbit, sauteed legs, and gold and silver hooves with ginger vinegar.
Finally, I ordered a pot of bamboo leaves for Fenjiu.
Huang Rong is very happy to order food, including wine, meat, staple food, side dishes and desserts. It can be described as an excellent master in eating goods.
but this leads to a question: what will happen if people in the song dynasty compare what they eat with what we eat today?
that must be a great victory in today's diet, because some foods were not available in the song dynasty now.
For example, there was no pepper in the Song Dynasty, and it didn't reach China until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Without pepper, if you are from Sichuan, Hunan and Jiangxi, you will not be satisfied when you cross to the Song Dynasty.
For example, fried peanuts for snacks should not be found. There were no peanuts at all in the Song Dynasty.
For example, some fruits, such as pineapples and apples, were not available, and watermelons didn't exist until the Southern Song Dynasty.
besides, there are no potatoes, corn, pumpkins, onions, tomatoes and sweet potatoes. So if you travel to the Song Dynasty, don't order hot and sour shredded potatoes and scrambled eggs with tomatoes for dinner.
To sum up, it is certain that the dishes in the Song Dynasty were not as rich as we are now, but they are quite diverse.
if you have a chance to go back to the song dynasty, you still have to eat.
Imagine that you have now traveled back to the Song Dynasty. At this time, you are hungry and thirsty, and you really want to have a good meal in a pub. But I have to remind you that if you cross the Song Dynasty at noon, there is a high probability that you won't eat anything. No matter how busy you are in the city, you have to wait until dinner.
Because people in the Song Dynasty had two meals a day, and didn't eat lunch.
when did we start eating three meals a day now? In fact, it started in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, but it was limited to wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families, and ordinary people did not eat lunch. Even the emperor doesn't eat lunch, probably because he is the son of heaven and wants to set an example for his subjects.
so if you cross, please be sure to choose a good time. By the way, I have to tell you that people in the Song Dynasty ate breakfast at nine o'clock and dinner at four o'clock.
well, you crossed to the song dynasty at nine o'clock in the morning, and now you have to search the street. Look at what people in Song Dynasty ate in the morning.
There must be steamed buns. They were not called steamed buns in the Song Dynasty, but steamed buns.
There are all kinds of fillings, such as pork stuffing, mutton stuffing and even quail stuffing.
vegetarian steamed stuffed buns have sugar stuffing, rice stuffing, sauerkraut stuffing, jujube stuffing and chestnut stuffing, and so on. It can be said that there are many patterns.
you said you wanted to eat soup packets? No problem, to satisfy you, there will be enthusiastic stall owners who will sell you grouted buns, which are the soup-filling buns of the Song Dynasty.
There were crab roe buns in the Song Dynasty, but it was not clear until the soup was poured.
there are naturally rice porridge, fried dough sticks and all kinds of noodles.
It can be seen that breakfast in Song Dynasty was similar to ours.
After breakfast, just stroll around the city and read all the contents of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. Dinner will be ready at four o'clock.
There are more kinds of dinners. You can eat all the dishes ordered by Huang Rong Huang Gang.
you said that you should not eat these small shops and restaurants, but go to big restaurants and restaurants, which is also true. The second volume of Dream of China in Tokyo explicitly mentions 72 restaurants, large and small, such as Alum House, Qingfeng House, Changqing House, Baxian House, Banlou House, Zhangbajiayuan Zhaizhengdian, Wangjiazhengdian, Liqijiazhengdian and Huixianlouzhengdian.
Let's have a meal according to a menu in Jade Food Batch.
Meat-free and unpleasant categories: boiled quail, lychee with white kidney, mutton tongue stick (string), sand fish (sashimi), mandarin duck fried belly, eel fried horseshoe crab, crab stuffed orange and fresh shrimp hoof.
Soups: Sancui Soup, Quail Soup, Dairy Yurui Soup, Crab Clear Soup, Dichromatic Cocoon Soup and Blood Powder Soup.
Soups: fried sand fish soup, goose gizzard soup and shrimp fish soup.
vegetarian dishes: we don't eat vegetarian dishes.
When it comes to the number one eater in the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo is the only one.
Su Dongpo is an all-rounder who can write poems, write lyrics, write compositions, listen to music, draw pictures and, most importantly, eat, and make delicious food.
Let's look at what people in Song Dynasty ate from Su Dongpo's eyes.
When we mention Su Dongpo, the first food that comes to mind is Dongpo meat. This famous dish named after him is popular all over the country. Whether you have eaten it or not, you have always heard of it.
But it is very likely that Dongpo pork was not created by Su Dongpo. It is not clear who initiated this dish.
Su Dongpo has cooked pork, and his own Notes on Qiuchi contains the practice of steaming pig's head meat: "Clean the pot, shallow the water, and press the firewood deeply. Yellow tapirs are as cheap as dirt, the rich refuse to eat, the poor don't know how to cook, and sometimes they make a bowl at home, knowing that you don't care. "
About meat food in Song Dynasty. Ordinary people should love to eat pork because it is cheap. Mutton is more expensive than pork, and scholars eat more. In addition, they regard pork as a lowly thing, which may be the reason why they like mutton.
The cheapest meat in Song Dynasty is fish, which is cheaper than pork.
Su Dongpo was banished to Hainan Island all his life, so Su Dongpo was poor, so he could only eat fish if he couldn't afford pork. Su Dongpo is very good at making fish soup. There is an article "Book Cooking Fish Soup" in Su Shi's Collected Works: "If you give it to Dongpo, try to hold a gun and cook fish soup to set up a guest, the guest will not be called good, and it will be easy for you to talk about it." Everyone praised him for his good fish soup.
Su Dongpo cooked fish in this way: fresh crucian carp or common carp were used to cure the fish, and salt was added to the cold water as usual, and the water shield was used to stir it, and the muddy scallions were still added for several stems, and no stirring was allowed. Half-cooked, add a little ginger radish juice and wine, the three things are equal, and mix well. When it is ripe, it is eaten when it enters the orange peel line.
Lu You, another great poet in the Song Dynasty, also loves to eat fish. He has a poem called "Thinking of Shu": "Jade eats Emei fish, and the golden fish eats the third cave fish."
Emei is auricularia auricula, and golden pheasant is a condiment made of shredded golden orange and sauce. And point C fish is eaten by sashimi.
Besides, Su Dongpo also loves to make wine, but the wine he makes is not very good, and sometimes he will have diarrhea after drinking it.
so if you travel back to the song dynasty, you can find delicious food in the song dynasty, whether you are a dignitary or an ordinary person.