Cixi snacks love steamed stuffed buns and stinky tofu. Stinky tofu must be Wang Zhihe's stinky tofu. Cixi can't live without every meal, and she must buy it from Wang Zhihe Nanjiangyuan on the same day.
One year, Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to get rid of the train addiction and put a huge imperial meal class on her special train. Although it is a temporary chef built on the train, the number and scale are totally inadequate, occupying four carriages, of which 1 carriage is equipped with 50 cookers, each of which is responsible for cooking two kinds of dishes, sharing 100 chefs. Prepare 100 kinds of conventional dishes and 100 kinds of cakes, fruits, sweets and dried fruits for each meal. Such a large-scale cookhouse squad can provide food for one person and even serve an assembler.
The first thing to eat in the morning is tremella milk tea, which is a very simple configuration for Cixi to eat in one day.
After drinking milk tea, breakfast will begin. At this time, Shoushan Restaurant began to worship, and the Empress Dowager had breakfast in Palace of Gathered Elegance East Temple. There are about twenty kinds of breakfasts in the palace, such as Yutian red rice porridge, Jiangnan fragrant glutinous rice porridge, Coix seed porridge, eight-treasure lotus porridge, eight-treasure porridge and shredded chicken porridge. , then all kinds of tea soup, then all kinds of staple food, such as sesame, jiaozi, fried top. , and side dishes, such as bean products, halogen products, etc. , each is changing. Although sesame seed cakes can't be turned into delicacies, they are still made by first-class chefs, and the production is naturally very excellent. These foods are packed in big suitcases and covered with Huang Yun's walk-on, commonly known as "baggage", which is not the treatment that ordinary people can enjoy.
Before lunch, Empress Dowager Cixi will use some snacks, most of which are Chinese cakes, and as usual, there is also a special pastry room to serve. Empress Dowager Cixi has 120 kinds of dishes for lunch, which are sometimes delicious. This figure is extremely exaggerated for us modern people. In modern times, it is extremely wasteful for one person to eat 12 dishes, but as far as Cixi is concerned, 120 dishes are just common configurations. There are 128 cooks in the cooking class responsible for the diet and daily life of Empress Dowager Cixi, and the kitchen consists of 108 houses, occupying 8 courtyards in total. On average, it's one chef and one dish-of course, such a large kitchen team can be used to provide meals for a reorganizer. Although we can't name all the firefighters of Empress Dowager Cixi, they are all famous chefs, and they can only go in to serve Empress Dowager Cixi after strict selection-she is really extravagant.
Cixi once lived in Changchun Palace, belonging to the Sixth Palace of the Imperial Palace, so she was also called the "Western Empress", also known as the Western Saint. Therefore, its private kitchens are also called "western restaurants". There are famous chefs in Beijing who are proficient in more than 400 kinds of dim sum practices, and there are more than 4,000 kinds of dishes, which can also withstand the trouble of Cixi. There is also a rule for the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty to eat with emperor figures, that is, not to scoop a dish for the fourth time. When eating, at least four or five eunuchs stood beside the queen mother and the emperor. They like a dish, so they signal with their eyes, and eunuchs scoop it into the dish with spoons.