The format of Luoyang water banquet is very delicate, 24 dishes are not more or less, 8 cold dishes, 16 hot dishes can not have the slightest deviation. 16 hot dishes are divided into large, medium and pressure table dishes, the name is very delicate, the order of serving is also very strict. Guests to all sit down before the cold dishes. 8 cold dishes are divided into 4 meat and 4 vegetarian, cold dishes spelled out bird and flower patterns, bright colors, chic ideas. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the color of the water, and you will be able to get a good appetite before you even use your chopsticks.
After the cold dishes, 16 hot dishes are served at once. When the hot dishes are served, the large and medium pieces are paired into groups, that is, one large dish and two slightly smaller medium dishes are paired into a group. Called: "Bringing a child to the court". In the water seat, people who love to eat cold food, you can find a cold dish that suits you, people who love to eat hot and sour dishes, the water seat dishes can make you spicy sweating sour dripping. Some people like to eat sweets, the fourth group of sweet dishes is enough to make people eat delicious and enjoyable. If someone loves to eat meat dishes, seat on the surface of the mountains and the sea, birds and animals have everything, as much as possible to eat. Do not want to eat meat want to eat vegetarian dishes, to ordinary vegetables as raw materials for the vegetarian dishes, coarse dishes fine work, refreshing and appetizing.
Soup is more than the characteristics of the water table, to the feast of people soup dishes alternately eat, can make people feel comfortable stomach and intestines. See the egg soup on the table, understand the local customs of the people know, 24 dishes have been all on the end of the bowl of soup to send the guests to the end of the water, the guests and hosts are happy, have to get up and leave
Because of the rich content of the Luoyang Water Seat, the flavor of the full, so it is applicable to the face of the banquets than the general wide. On to the royal court aristocrats, scared to the common people, people according to their own economic strength to order food, rich and frugal at will, affordable and generous. It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian tasted Luoyang water feast, after eating, full of praise. Today, many taste. Foreign heads of state and Chinese and foreign guests have also appreciated the Luoyang Water Seat.
The origin of the name of the Luoyang Water Seat, one is closely linked to the characteristics of the water seating soup, and the second is to refer to the order of serving like water flowing clouds. Its exquisite modeling, rich varieties and strict order of dishes, refreshing, things not forgotten. Come here to travel friends may wish to taste a taste, appreciate the flavor of the Luoyang water table. I believe that everyone ate all good!
The first dish of Luoyang water banquet is "Peony Swallow dish", originally known as "fake Swallow dish". The so-called "fake bird's nest dishes" are dishes made by pretending to be bird's nests. The source of this forgery also occurred in Wu Zetian.
Legend has it that after Wu Zetian became the emperor, the world was also peaceful, and the people found a lot of "auspicious", such as what wheat three heads, three spikes and so on, Wu Zetian was certainly full of happiness and very interested in these peaceful events. One year in the fall, Luoyang Dongguan field out of a large white radish, three feet long, on the green under the white, this unusually large white radish, of course, was dedicated to the Queen as a good-luck object. Wu Zetian is very happy then ordered the palace chef will be cooking, to taste the flavor. Radish can do what good food it, but the Queen's order and dare not disobey, the Imperial Kitchen has no choice but to have a hard time, the radish for a multi-channel processing, and mixed with sea food, cooking into a soup. Wu Zetian tasted, feel beautiful and refreshing, very much the flavor of bird's nest soup, it is named "false swallow dish". From then on, Wu Zetian's menu on the addition of "fake swallows", become Wu Zetian often tasted a dish. Queen's preferences, affecting a large number of aristocrats, bureaucrats, everyone in the banquet to catch up with the fashion, the "false swallows" as the first course of the banquet, even in the absence of radish season, but also the idea of using other vegetables to make "false swallows", in order to avoid the fall of the price. On a good, the next will be even. Court and official preferences, greatly affecting the folk appetite, people regardless of marriage and funeral, or guests entertaining friends, are "fake swallows" as the first dish on the table, to start the whole feast. Later, with the passage of time, Wu Zetian's name gradually obliterated, people will be called "Luoyang Yan Cai", or simply "Yan Cai".
"The national color is sound in the morning, and the heavenly fragrance attacks the clothes in the night", Luoyang is a famous peony city, and people combined the magical legend, delicate and gorgeous peony and Yan Cai, making it more distinctive characteristics of Luoyang.
On October 14, 1973, Premier Zhou Enlai accompanied Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to Luoyang, and the famous chef of Luoyang cooked for them. The famous chef of Luoyang made a fragrant and chic "Luoyang Bird's Nest Vegetable" for them, only to see a peony flower as white as jade with eye-catching color floating on the surface of the soup, and the dish was fragrant and fresh, which won the hands of the VIPs, and Premier Zhou said wryly, "The dish has blossomed". Therefore, people later called Yan Cai as "Peony Yan Cai", the name of the dish to the flower, the flower to the dish, the two complement each other, the reputation is even greater.
The first dish of Luoyang water banquet is "Peony Swallow Vegetable", which was originally called "Fake Swallow Vegetable". The so-called "fake bird's nest dishes" are dishes made by pretending to be bird's nests. The source of this fake also happened in Wu Zetian.