So there is such a dialogue ~
Don't you have hard dishes on this menu in the north?
What is a hard dish in the south?
The north is the kind that can hold the table?
The south still doesn't understand.
Hard food is not a dish that tastes hard. It can be understood as the final dish, just like Zhao Benshan must be present in the Spring Festival Evening. Northerners are generous in character and of course face-saving. When treating guests, there must be several hard dishes on the table, which shows the atmosphere of the host. Some friends have to ask, "Does hard food mean chicken, duck and fish?" Of course, it can be understood in this way, but in most cases, our northerners' hard dishes are unique.
Northerners like to drink, and they are free by themselves, and they don't have high requirements for snacks. But as long as they treat guests, they must order chickens, ducks and fish on the hour to entertain good friends. Even neighbors in the same village can't make do at will. At the very least, they must have a meat dish, otherwise they will lose face.
Some friends want to ask: "Have you northerners never eaten meat? Chicken, duck, fish and meat can be called hard dishes "?
Please don't be mistaken, my friend who understands this way. One side of water nurtures the other side, and the unpretentious northerners have developed the habit for many years. They like to gulp down wine, eat meat and make friends. This is a fine tradition handed down by their ancestors. Others invite you to eat hard food, which is the minimum respect and attaches great importance to this friendship. If you have friends in Inner Mongolia, then the first meal will definitely be roast whole sheep to entertain you.
When northerners meet, there is also a tacit mantra, "Order hard food and have a drink tonight"?
The hard dishes in the eyes of ordinary people are chicken, duck and fish. When meeting important occasions, there is more than that. Take Shandong cuisine as an example. It once appeared on state banquets and became a hard dish in the eyes of foreigners. There must be a difference between hard dishes and ordinary dishes, and it is definitely not always available.
Stewed mushrooms with chicken, sauce bone, stewed turtle, stewed ribs, braised fish, stewed dog meat, braised pork, cold beef, stewed mutton, stewed ribs, pork head, roast chicken, roast duck, stewed goose and so on.
Jiaodong flavor: oil-fried conch, steamed Cargill fish, grilled abalone and prawn.
Confucian cuisine: Confucius' first-class pot, immortal duck, scallop in court, embrace carp, mandarin fish with blue flowers, and shrimp with jade belt.
Jinan flavor: roasted sea cucumber with onion, sweet and sour yellow river carp, nine-turn large intestine, crispy in oil, and braised elbow in pot.
Northerners have enjoyed drinking and eating meat since ancient times, just like Wu Song's three bowls of cooked beef can eat less than 2 Jin. As long as it is meat, such as chicken, duck, beef, donkey meat, dog meat, etc., it belongs to the category of hard dishes. If you treat people in restaurants, more than 70% of them must be hard dishes, so as to entertain relatives and friends, otherwise you will feel stingy. The hard dishes of northerners must first have meat.
Perhaps it is impossible to understand the fried vegetables that must be ordered in the south. What kind of spicy chicken and boiled fish are there? Apart from peppers, there is no meat. The table just turns around, and you can't eat anything at all. Of course, in everyone's heart, there are hard dishes of your own. Three miles are different, five miles are different, and the rules are changed.