Dietary Preferences of Different Age Groups Research Study

The culinary masterpieces of the Qing Dynasty were not counted as the Manchu banquet, and there were as many as fifty-six major dishes.

The first: the first five gui, bowls of ten pieces

Bird's nest soup with shredded chicken, braised pork tendon with sea cucumber, fresh razor clams with shredded radish soup, seaweed soup with shredded pork belly, abalone braised with pearl vegetables, tamarind and shrimp soup, shark fins and mussels and crab soup, confit chicken with ma-goo, reels of hammers, shark's skin and chicken juice soup, soup with blood powder

The second: five gui of the second, bowls of ten pieces

Carp's tongue braised with bear's paw

, Scarlet Lips with Rice Dregs, Braised Pig's Brain, False Leopard's Tire, Steamed Hump, Pear Slices Mixed with Fruit Civet, Steamed Deer Tail, Pheasant Slices Soup, Wind Pork Slices, Wind Goat Slices, Rabbit Dried Milk Room Sign

Third portion: ten pieces of Fine White Soup Bowl

Stewed Pork Belly, False Jiang Yao, Duck Tongue Soup, Chicken Bamboo Shoots Congee, Pig's Brain Soup, Hibiscus Eggs, Gizzard Palm Soup, False Speckled Fish's Liver, Steamed Shad with Dregs, Shixi's Breastmilk, Wensi's Bean Curd Soup, Slices of Snapping Snapper Pork Soup, Cocoon Soup

Fourth portion: ten pieces of hairy blood plate

Badger baking, harpies, piglets, deep-fried pork and mutton, hanging stove oil chicken, hanging stove oil goose, hanging stove pigeon (Yuehuo), pork miscellaneous shi, sheep miscellaneous shi, prairie hair pork and mutton, white steamed pork and mutton, white steamed piglets, white steamed piglets, white steamed piglets, white steamed sheep, white steamed chickens, white steamed ducks, white steamed geese, white noodle cakes and biscuits, plum blossom buns, assorted roasted meat.

The fifth portion: twenty pieces of foreign dishes, twenty hot food and wine

Twenty pieces of small dishes, withered fruit, fresh fruit.

Although it has been so extravagant, it is still small for the menu of the imperial kitchen in the palace. This is a Puyi 6-year-old a morning meal, although it is the end of the Qing Dynasty, the country is in turmoil, the palace life is not as Qianlong that era so pompous, but in today's view, but also enough to reach the point of extravagance: mushrooms and fat chicken, five locks of shredded chicken, stewed white meat, stewed tripe lungs, slices of meat stewed with cabbage, yellow smothered lamb, mutton stewed with spinach and bean curd, cherry meat with yam, stove meat stewed with cabbage, slices of mutton blanch small carrots, duck strips slippery sea cucumber, kind of ding slippery Ge Xian rice, roasted mizuna, sliced meat stewed yucca slices, shredded lamb stewed run da silk, fried spring rolls, yellow leeks fried meat, smoked elbow flower tripe, brine boiled tofu, smoked dried shredded, cooking pinches of vegetables, peppercorn oil fried shredded cabbage, five spice dried, sacrificed to the gods sliced meat soup, boiled stuffed ribs in white, cooking white meat.

According to the archives: the emperor's portion of 22 pounds of vegetables and meat every day, counting 30 portions of cases ***660 pounds, of which: soup meat 5 pounds, ***150 pounds; 1 pound of lard, ***30 pounds; 2 fat chickens, ***60; fat ducks, 3, ***90; vegetables, 3 chickens, ***90 only. Empress Dowager and Consort's portions such as the following: Empress Dowager: 1860 pounds of meat, 30 chickens, 30 ducks; Jin Guifei: 285 pounds of meat, 7 chickens, 7 ducks; Yu Huang Guifei: 360 pounds of meat, 15 chickens, 15 ducks; Xun Huang Guifei: 360 pounds of meat, 15 chickens, 15 ducks; if you count the ministers in the palace, guards, and so on a month of pork 31,844 pounds of lard, 840 pounds of lard, chickens and ducks 4786, plus fish, shrimp and eggs, a month to spend 14794 two silver, not counting the fruit, drinks, etc..

Puyi in "my first half of life", the royal dinner has a detailed description: consume manpower, material and financial resources of the largest row is no better than dinner. There is a set of terms about the emperor to eat, is absolutely can not be wrong. Meal called meal, meal called into the meal, meal called pass meal. To the time of the meal, completely by the emperor's own decision - commanded a: "pass the meal!" , followed by the Imperial small eunuchs will be the same to the eunuchs guarding the Yangxin Hall said: "pass the meal!" This way a pass down, not waiting for the echo disappears, a dowry as if over the ranks have come out of the imperial dining room. This is by dozens of well-dressed eunuchs of the team, carrying the size of the seven meal table, holding dozens of painted gold dragons of the vermilion lacquer box, vastly straight to the Yangxin Hall. Into the bright hall, by the set of white sleeve head of the little eunuchs took over, in the East Warm Pavilion set up. Weekday dishes have two tables, another table hot pot in winter, in addition to a variety of snacks, rice meals, congee three tables, a table of savory dishes. Tableware painted with dragons and written "longevity" words of the famous yellow porcelain, silver in winter. Underneath is a porcelain pitcher that holds the water of the day. Each dish or bowl has a silver plate, this is to guard against poisoning and set up, and for the same reason, the dish before serving up to go through a eunuch tasted, called the taste of food eunuch. After these are tasted things set up, before the emperor into the seat, a eunuch shouted: "hit the bowl cover" the rest of the small eunuchs will be removed from the silver plate, the emperor began to eat.