Chapter 43 Man Han Banquet

In 1978, in order to make a Chinese cooking film, a TV station in Japan ordered a table of Manchu and Han banquets at the "Guobin Restaurant" in Hong Kong. ", "Longmen Banquet", "Golden Flower Banquet", "Luming Banquet".I ate for a total of 48 hours, and the total cost was 100,000 Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to 20,000 U.S. dollars).Hong Kong newspapers published: According to people who have visited, the layout of the restaurant is described as: mica, mother-of-pearl and sour branches, tables and chairs, piles of gold and jade, bottles and Yi, evil spirits, Guan Ge Dingru, tree and stone potted plants, palace smoked stove, and colorful battles around the wall , purple silk phene germanium, each decorated with fresh flowers of the season.The grand feast is in full swing, the eight tones are played, and the guests are welcomed by elegant music, and the servants in long robes and mandarin jackets sing the titles. They clean their hands in sequence in the fragrant retting, the water is soft and fragrant, and the rhinoceros and jade are engraved with gold. The guests are seated.Every time a gui is entered, the waiter will report the name of the dish and explain the content.The elephant chopsticks and jade cups used at the banquet are all imitated from ancient valerian flowers. All famous chefs in Hong Kong and Kowloon were mobilized to prepare 70 famous dishes. It took more than three months to purchase and search for rare ingredients in various places.Serving delicacies at this table can be said to be an unprecedented feat in the past century.

According to Professor Wu Xiangxiang: "The archives of Qing Dynasty meals collected in Guyu have been mostly complete since Qianlong. The time of eating every day, the name of the meal, the name of the cook who served the meal, the name of the meal temporarily added, and the rewards for the leftovers of the meal. Whoever listed them in the archives in detail, as for shark fin and sea cucumber high-grade seafood, it was not included in the Tianchu meal list in the Qianlong era!" Although the author has not seen the Qing Dynasty meal archives, but from the address slips of famous officials in the Qing Dynasty, There are often records of banquets given by the Hall of Supreme Harmony. For example, in Sai Shang'e's "Yunji Qilu", there is a passage describing the grand occasion of the state banquet. Li, sweet and mellow. The clear sky shakes the sky, and the great heavenly music plays, exalting my heavenly power, and caring for people far away." Weng Xiangguo also mentioned in "Songchan Diary" that it is necessary to meet neighboring countries to pay tribute to the court and peace Randomly presenting prisoners to praise the two major national events will lead to a grand state banquet for the Manchu and Han dynasties.To say a common saying is to set up a spectrum and show them, if you only know how to spend extravagantly and extravagantly on food and drink, wouldn't you lose the demeanor of a great country?

The State Guest Restaurant in Hong Kong named the Manchu and Han feasts "Yutang Banquet", "Dragon Gate Banquet", "Golden Flower Banquet" and "Luming Banquet", all of which are auspicious words for the success of the scientific research (the number one scholar and the banquet named "Rong En") "Banquet") has nothing to do with the state banquet of the Manchu and Han banquets. These famous halls are undoubtedly fabricated.As for the recipes for the Manchu and Han feasts of the Hong Kong state banquet, the names of the dishes (not to list them one by one) are like chanting happy songs and birthday greetings. It would be strange to be exiled for a hundred thousand miles!Guangjiu Restaurant has always liked to name its dishes with nondescript and strange names, which is of course a way for the restaurant to attract attention.It is said that this table of dishes was made by the chef of Li Zhun's family, the admiral of the Guangdong and Guangxi Navy. In addition, Zhao Buzheng, a famous Lingnan roast meat master, was invited as a consultant. A total of more than 100 famous chefs were used.According to Kobayashi Nishiya, a well-known Japanese writer who participated in the banquet, after drinking and eating, he said that this meal was the most luxurious and refined meal he had ever eaten in his life, but the Cantonese flavor was a bit heavier.Afterwards, a friend from Hong Kong once sent me photos of the tableware, dishes, and waiter's clothing at that time.Although Kobayashi Westinghouse's evaluation is not necessarily a wise statement, it can be more than half thought through the past to prove the present.

We hope that in the future, the Man-Han Banquet, which attracts tourists, will work hard on truth-seeking. If the dishes are neither donkeys nor horses, they will say that they are delicacies. It is said that it is a court dress, even if it can absorb some foreign exchange and make people think of us as an ancient oriental country that is only addicted to appetite, it is not worth it.