In addition to eating mutton, people in the Tang Dynasty also loved goat milk. Cheese, pastry, glutinous rice and curd made from goat's milk also attract the attention of foodies. After the goat milk is fermented, it becomes cheese. The floating skin obtained by boiling the goat cheese is called puff pastry, and the fat exuded from the puff pastry is daigo. Goat milk is boiled into a pulp, cooled and solidified to become milk tofu, which is very similar to today's milk tofu.

Zhang Xiaojing ate two bowls of mutton in a basin. The authentic way to eat water basin mutton is a bowl of mutton soup with two biscuits, one soaked in buns and the other made into meat buns, served with garlic and or sugared garlic, supplemented by mutton chili, which is fat but not greasy, and tastes great. Unique. Hu cakes appear several times in the play, bearing a strong Tang-style imprint. Folks usually use walnuts as the filling, and the cake surface is sprinkled with sesame seeds. After being roasted at high temperature, it has an attractive caramel aroma, is crispy and delicious, and has a long shelf life. It is really a satiating tool for home and travel.

After Hu cakes were introduced to the Central Plains, they were improved and divided into two types: stuffed and without stuffing. According to the needs of diners, the abundance and thrift are optional. The ones without fillings are similar to naan, while the ones with fillings are similar to sesame cakes. The fillings may be meat or vegetarian, salty or sweet. "Tang Yulin" records, "When the Hao family ate, they took a pound of mutton, layered it on a giant pancake, put pepper and black bean in the middle, moistened it and crisped it, put it in the oven and waited for the meat to be half cooked, and called it Gulou "This kind of mutton pie is not something ordinary people can consume.

Wei Juyuan, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, created the "Shaking Tail Banquet", which included a snack called "Ju Sheng Nu". Sesame originates from the Western Regions and is called flax. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records: "Flax is a great winner." The medical book "Compendium on Materia Medica" of the early Tang Dynasty also contains: "(Mai Nu) is a person who has black mold on the ears of wheat when they are about to ripen." It means that Nu is not The little things that matter. In order to please Wei Juyuan, he named him "Jushengnu". This snack is sprinkled with black sesame seeds. It looks tall and elegant, but it's just a piece of cake.

A story in "Chao Ye Qian Zai" reflects the deliciousness of Hu cakes from the side. The official Zhang Heng was impeached by the imperial censor because he "saw a newly cooked steamed cake on the roadside, so he sold one of the steamed cakes and ate it immediately." As a result, Zhang Heng, who was originally going to be promoted to the third rank, was stopped and exiled to other places, and his official career was cut off. The difference between this brother's promotion and exile was only one piece of cake. Eating cakes while they are hot is not a small thing, it is degrading, but a big thing, the food of the Tang Dynasty is so capricious.

Sima Xiangru, a talented scholar of the Western Han Dynasty, said in "Ode to Shanglin": "Loquat, persimmon, magnolia officinalis, jujube and bayberry, cherry and Pushen." This shows that the cultivation of persimmon has a history of more than 2,000 years. . Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Ode to Persimmons" which has been handed down from generation to generation. "Stars appear in the morning, and the sun shines in the evening. The roots are picked up to protect themselves." At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi "hunted west to Chang'an", and local officials took the fire crystals. Persimmons were offered as tribute.