The dishes cooked by Empress Dowager Cixi because she disliked the chef were terrible, and none of them were very delicious. So she set up a private kitchen of her own, called a western restaurant. Western restaurants can cook all kinds of dishes. As long as Empress Dowager Cixi wants something to eat, they can do something, and nothing can beat them.

The chef's dishes are never cooked for the sake of delicious food. The most important thing is to ensure the safety of ingredients and ensure the health of eating, and there can be no accidents. Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite dishes with unique taste are generally impossible to appear in the royal chef, which is one of the reasons why Empress Dowager Cixi doesn't like to eat royal chef rice, mainly because it is really bad!

Another reason is that in order to ensure that the emperor and his concubines can always eat hot meals, the chef always prepares the meals in advance, but after they are prepared, they have been heated in the pot with a small fire. Naturally, the scalded food tastes bad, and it can't compare with the freshly cooked food. So Empress Dowager Cixi doesn't like the dishes cooked by the chef. It's simply terrible.

However, Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't stand the bland food in the Imperial Dining Hall, so she simply set up a private kitchen for herself and named it the Western Dining Hall. There are many chefs in this western restaurant, and they can cook all kinds of special dishes for Empress Dowager Cixi to choose from. It can be seen that the life of Empress Dowager Cixi is simply extravagant to the extreme.