The dish called beggar chicken is actually wrapped in lotus leaves, then covered with mud and baked inside. This dish is actually a traditional famous dish in Jiangsu. Although there is no such thing as beggar chicken in history, the practice of wrapping muscles with mud and roasting suckling pigs with mud has a long history. It is also recorded in the Book of Rites that these principles are the same, except that Huang Rong turned suckling pigs into chickens.
The second dish, Tang Zhi, is actually a soup made of various vegetables and turtledove meat. The ingredients in the dish were only available before the Song Dynasty, such as lotus leaves, bamboo shoots and cherries, which are all local things. It is called "Good Tang Zhi" because of the meat of turtledove, so this dish can also be eaten in Song Dynasty.
The third course is Twenty-four Bridges Moonlit Night. Although its name sounds complicated, it is actually made of ham and tofu. Tofu has a very long history in China and appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, so tofu was a very common food in the Song Dynasty, not to mention ham. At that time, the method of making ham was actually to sprinkle a layer of salt on the outside of pork and then dry it in good air.
The last course is fried centipede. Although ordinary people feel very scared when they hear centipedes, China people have a long history of eating these things. There was a record of eating fried centipedes in the Three Kingdoms, and the use of fried omnivores was also recorded in Tokyo Dream.
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