On the first day of October in the twelfth year of Qianlong (AD 1747), Emperor Qianlong's dinner menu: "Bird's nest shredded chicken and mushrooms, smoked shredded Chinese cabbage with Ping 'an fruit, followed by Eight Immortals (bird's nest and duck smoked with fire, chicken wings and stomach mushrooms), fat chicken cabbage, preserved chicken, preserved duck, rotten duck, shredded pheasant and pickled cabbage, and roasted venison, fried chicken, shredded chicken and dried mutton. A product of honey, a product of Lala, a product of small dishes, a product of southern dishes, a product of spinach, a product of osmanthus radish, a bowl of glutinous rice, a product of mutton egg powder soup, a product of radish soup and a product of wild chicken soup. " (Xu Qixian: Dining for the Emperors in Qing Dynasty, Forbidden City,No. 10)

One day in June in the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu, had a lunch menu: shrimp with pepper vinegar, roast goose, sheep's head and hoof, goose bazi, salted mustard mutton tripe plate, garlic vinegar white blood soup, five-flavored steamed chicken, mutton bone with yuan sauce, kidney with spicy vinegar, steamed fresh fish, five-flavored steamed gluten, mutton crystal horn, etc.

There are four kinds of big bowl dishes in The Palace: gold and silver duck with the word "Wan" in bird's nest, three fresh fat chicken with the word "Nian" in bird's nest, duck cooked in pot with the word "Ru" in bird's nest, and assorted shredded chicken with the word "Yi" in bird's nest. There are four kinds of dishes: bird's nest duck strips, shredded pigeon eggs, shredded chicken wings and duck waist. Four dishes: fried duck shreds with bird's nest, fried pheasant feet, fried carp and scrambled eggs with shredded pork. Two products: hanging duck and hanging pig. Two products: white sugar oil cake, wishful fatigue; Bird's nest eight immortals soup. Hot pot two products: stewed tofu with mutton and stewed cabbage with duck; Four kinds of big bowl dishes: stewed duck with the word "Fu" in bird's nest, shredded white duck with the word "Shou" in bird's nest, red and white duck with the word "Wan" in bird's nest, and assorted shredded rice with the word "Year" in bird's nest; Four products in the middle bowl: bird's nest, shredded fat duck, fresh shrimp, three fresh pigeon eggs and preserved duck loin; Dilai six products; Fried shredded smoked chicken with bird's nest, fried wings with sliced meat, fried chicken slices with mushrooms, sliced duck balls, fruit sauce, shredded chicken. The second product of the plate: hanging duck and hanging pig; Kung pao chicken, Fotiaoqiang, Luohanzhai, boiled chicken, three sets of ducks, moo Shu pork, Mapo tofu, sweet and sour carp, Kyoto bone, sweet and sour pork ribs, husband and wife lung slices, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, sweet and sour pork, steamed fish head with chopped pepper, shredded pork with fish flavor, roasted eggplant, braised pork, West Lake vinegar fish, chestnut chicken, boiled fish, braised lion head, Four Joy Meetballs.