The Song Dynasty is a famous dynasty in Chinese history, its agriculture, handicrafts, etc. have major developments, industry and commerce are developed, the economy is prosperous, and the catering industry of the Song Dynasty is also very developed. The staple foods of the Song people mainly include: rice, including wheat rice, rice, sorghum rice, etc., and the processing method is usually steamed or cooked. Porridge, a variety of porridge. Noodles, noodle soup with meat and vegetarian. In the Song Dynasty, steamed food called "steamed buns" had lamb stuffing, shrimp filling, spinach filling, fish filling, etc., similar to today's buns. Cake, made by fire or fire is made of burnt cake, steamed and made of steamed cake (cooking cake, similar to today's steamed buns), at that time, there are a wide variety of cakes, there are white meat cake, three meat cakes, manna cake, hibiscus cake, plum blossom cake, bee sugar cake and so on. In addition, there are wontons, dumplings, etc., which were called "horns" in the Song Dynasty at that time.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes
Song dynasty
In the Song Dynasty, not only the staple foods were rich, but the dishes were even more dazzling. During the Song Dynasty, due to the abolition of the Lifang system and curfew in the city, the catering industry in the city was very prosperous, especially the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, Tokyo Bieliang Castle. According to the "Tokyo Dream Record" record, at that time in tokyo Bieliang City, there were many restaurants, after the guests found a place to sit, the shop Xiao Er (Don Qi) took the menu to let the guests order, at that time, the diners in Tokyo Bieliang City were quite picky about food, some should be warm, some should be hot, after the guests ordered good food, the shop Xiao Er (Don Qi) went to the kitchen next to the kitchen to start chanting the menu to the chef in the kitchen. After a while, when the dishes ordered by the guests are ready, the shopkeeper brings the various dishes in the bowl to the guests.
Tokyo Bieliang
According to the "Tokyo Dream Record", the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, Tokyo, was lined with restaurants and many. There were seventy-two large restaurants, such as the very famous "Alum Building" at that time, which consisted of five buildings, and the buildings were connected to each other by a suspension bridge equipped with railings, and the small restaurants (hotels) were called foot shops, and there were many of them. In the restaurant, there are not only a variety of staple foods, but also a variety of dishes, such as: lychee loin, false yuan fish, cassia pocket, roasted sheep, steamed soft sheep, pan rabbit, chicken skewers, fried crabs, ginger shrimp, etc., as well as freshly cut lettuce lettuce, Xijing bamboo shoots and so on. Not only that, but there are also various dried fruits, such as: date rings, peach rings, pear meat, plum and so on.
At that time, there were many snacks and snacks in the night market in Tokyo's Bieliang City, such as in the Shuqiao Night Market, there were pickled fish, ginger and spicy radish, etc., in the summer, there were sugar mung bean hay ice and snow cold water, lettuce, lychee paste, sugar ice and snow cold balls, etc., in winter there were plate rabbits, freshly roasted pork skin meat and so on. "Tokyo Dream" mentions bean sprouts, probably in the winter of the Song Dynasty, the Song people would often eat bean sprouts.
Beef brisket stew with potatoes
Although the catering industry in the Song Dynasty was developed, the variety of vegetables and fruits was quite rich, and there were many kinds of dishes, but some of our modern very ordinary dishes did not exist in the Song Dynasty. If a person "crosses" the Song Dynasty, goes to a restaurant, and orders a scrambled egg with tomatoes, scrambled eggs can be there, but there are really no scrambled eggs with tomatoes, no matter how much money this person gives to the shopkeeper of the Song Dynasty, there is absolutely no tomato scrambled eggs, which is a very common dish in modern times. Moreover, when this person who "crossed over to the Song Dynasty" ordered the dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes at the store, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper would definitely be dazed, because at that time they did not know what tomatoes were "sacred". What if I ordered another scrambled egg with chili peppers? The shop and the shopkeeper would still be hazy, scrambled eggs could be had, but at that time, peppers were still really not. What if you want to stew beef brisket with potatoes? Beef brisket can be stewed, and potatoes (potatoes) are also not.
However, what if you order a scrambled egg with leeks? This one can have. What about another cold cucumber? This can also be, when Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty went on an envoy to the Western Regions, he introduced cucumbers to the Central Plains by the way. In the summer of the Southern Song Dynasty, the people could eat watermelon, but in the winter of that time, they still could not eat roasted sweet potato (sweet potato). Tomatoes (tomatoes), sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes), potatoes (potatoes), peppers, etc. are native to the Americas, and later these food and vegetable crops spread to Europe, Asia and Africa. For example, this tomato was introduced to Europe for a long time, it was used as an ornamental plant, when the tomatoes are ripe, red and plump, it is indeed very good-looking, and later people found that this thing can not only be eaten, but also very delicious, so there is a tomato scrambled eggs this dish.
Distribution of tomato cultivation
Of course, in the historical exchanges between regions of the world, many animals and plants native to our country have also been introduced to other parts of the world. It is precisely because of the exchanges between the worlds throughout history that the variety of dishes on the human table has become more and more abundant. The history of catering is actually a history of "foodies".
The main reference materials of this article are: "Tokyo Dream Record" and so on