Meat dishes include fish balls, shrimp balls, tripe, prawns, duck intestines, lamb, beef, luncheon meat, ham and sausage, hot pot meatballs, fish fillets, squid, fatty beef, braised pork, sweet and sour spare ribs, chicken with chili sauce, braised chicken wings, duck in beer, and salt-baked chicken.

Meat dishes refer to certain herbaceous plants with irritating odors, which ancient Buddhists advocated not to consume because they were believed to affect temperament and create cravings after consumption. There are five main meat dishes, collectively known as five meat or five Xin, Buddhist and Taoist references are different. In recent times, food and drink containing animal ingredients has been falsely referred to as "meat dishes", which was in fact called "fishy" in ancient times. The so-called "meat and fish" that is, the two categories of the combined name.