The day before Singles' Day, on November 10, Chen Yu was packing up his warehouse in the hotel.

Two people walked in outside the door, Chen Yu looked up and saw that the old acquaintances were Wu Liang, the general manager, and Wang Qiang, the former chef.

After some greetings, Wu Ming expressed his intentions: "Xiao Chen, have you received an invitation letter from the Manchu and Han people?"

Chen Yu was confused, and asked suspiciously: "What kind of invitation to the Manchu and Han banquets?"

At this time, Wang Qiang took over the conversation and said: This Manchu and Han banquet is a palace feast, which integrates the characteristics of court dishes and the essence of local flavors, shows the supreme realm of Chinese food culture, and is a brilliant treasure of Chinese cuisine culture.

Originating in the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu and Han Banquet is the most famous Chinese feast in history formed by combining the essence of Manchu and Han cuisine. In the Qianlong Jiashen period, Li Dou's "Yangzhou Painting Boat Record" recorded a Manchu and Han full banquet menu, which is the earliest record of the Manchu and Han full banquets.

The Manchu and Han banquets are dominated by Northeastern, Shandong, Beijing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisines. Most of the treasures in the secular so-called "Manchu and Han Dynasty Banquet" are special products (or productions) in Heilongjiang: such as rhino nose, fish bones, fish roe, lion's mane mushroom, bear's paw, hash toad, deer tail (tendons, breasts, whips, etc.), leopard fetus and other rare raw materials. Later, dishes from Fujian, Guangdong and other places also appeared on the giant banquet in turn. 54 southern dishes: 30 Jiangsu and Zhejiang dishes, 12 Fujian dishes, and 12 Guangdong dishes. 54 Northern dishes: 12 Manchu dishes, 12 Beijing dishes, 30 Shandong dishes.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the palace banquet was very simple. For general banquets, animal skins are spread in the open air, and everyone gathers around and eats on the ground. "Manchu Old Files" recorded: "When the Baylors set up a banquet, they did not set up a table, and they all sat on the ground. "The dishes are generally hot pot with stewed meat, pork, beef and mutton and animal meat. The state banquet attended by the emperor was only set up with a dozen tables or dozens of tables, and it was also the meat of cows, sheep, pigs, and beasts, which was cut with a feeding knife. After the clearance, the situation has changed a lot. Among the six ministries and nine secretaries, there is a special Guanglu Temple Qing, who is in charge of the banquet and the banquet of the national ceremony. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty first entered the customs, the diet was not very particular, but soon on the basis of the original Manchu traditional diet, it absorbed the characteristics of the Central Plains southern cuisine (mainly Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine) and northern cuisine (Shandong cuisine), and established a relatively rich court diet.

According to the "Great Qing Huidian" and "Guanglu Temple Rules", after Kangxi, the full seats undertaken by Guanglu Temple were divided into six classes: first-class full seats, each table cost eight taels of silver, generally used for the emperor and the queen's posthumous feast. Second-class seats, each table costs seven taels of silver, two cents, three cents, and four cents, which is generally used for the banquet after the death of the imperial concubine. Third-class seats, each table costs five taels or four dollars and four cents of silver, and is generally used for the banquet after the death of concubines, concubines and concubines.

Fourth-class seats, the price of each table is four taels of silver, four dollars and three cents, mainly used for New Year's Day, longevity, winter solstice three major festivals of congratulatory feasts, the emperor's wedding, the army of Kaimanhan full banquet, princess or county lord marriage and other banquets and the banquet after the death of nobles. The fifth-class seats, priced at three cents of silver per table, are mainly used for banquets for the chief and deputy envoys of the Korean tribute, the tribute envoys of the Tibetan Dal Lama and the Panchen Lama, and the banquet of the princesses marrying foreign clans and the Mongolian princes and Taiji on Chinese New Year's Eve. Sixth-class seats, each table is priced at two taels of silver and six cents, mainly used for banquets and feasts, and the Holy Princes of Yan came to the court, and Vietnam, Ryukyu, Siam, Burma, Sulu, Nanzhang and other countries came to envoys.

The Han seat undertaken by Guanglu Temple is divided into five categories: first, second and third class and upper seat and middle seat, which are mainly used for the banquet of the examiner of the Linyong Banquet and the Examination Examiner of the Wenwu Association, and the opening day of the book such as the record and the book of the canon and the banquet on the completion day. Among them, the chief examiner and the magistrate, tribute and other officials use first-class seats, each table contains 23 bowls of goose, fish, chicken, duck, pig, etc., eight bowls of fruit food, three bowls of steamed food, and four bowls of vegetable food. The examiner, the invigilator, and the promotion officer use second-class seats, and each table has 20 bowls of fish, chicken, duck, pig, etc., and fruits and vegetables are the same as the first-class seats. Inner curtain, outer curtain,

And the current Manchu and Han banquets are actually chef competitions from all sides to compete for the final chef king, and put their cooking experience on the Internet. So Xiao Chen, do you have any intention of participating? This is a good opportunity!

Chen Yu twisted his head, thought about it, and said embarrassedly: "Mr. Wu, I'm afraid that I will try my cooking skills with them, and my skills will not be as good as others, and I will lose face...... Will you offend others by competing with other peers?"

Wu Liang laughed, patted his thick thighs, and said: "Xiao Chen! You can rest assured! This is a great opportunity for fellow chefs to exchange skills, and there are bonuses and certificates, and the contestants will only be grateful, where will there be dissatisfaction? Moreover, you are a person who has never appeared in the chef world in Dragon City, and you are so young, even if you lose, what is there to be ashamed of? If you win an award, it will be a super dark horse! What a prestige, reputation, everything, and a lot of money!"

These words completely dispelled Chen Ang's concerns, and said with a smile: "In this way, I really want to participate." I also hope that the gods of all parties will give advice......"

Wang Qiang was a little cautious at this time, and asked, "I don't know Xiao Chen, are you going to participate in cold dishes or hot dishes?"

Chen Yu said: "I don't know...... Brother Wang, you can help arrange it, I will do a little. ”

Wang Qiang and Wu Liang glanced at each other, with a wry smile on their faces, if Chen Yu really participates in both, maybe the dark horse is really him!

"That's it, why don't you talk about Xiao Chen, what are you good at?"

Chen Yu counted and said: "I have made the most hot dishes, I have been mainly cooking Hubei cuisine recently, Hunan cuisine is also okay, cold dishes, mainly pastries, mung bean cakes, red bean cakes, macarons, these are the best, I don't know if I can't get on the countertop?"

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, at least in terms of the project, Chen Yu and the other contestants only conflicted one, Cantonese cuisine and pastry items should not be afraid, although he can make some small pastries, but at least these things are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and not suitable for participating in the competition.

Wu Liang pondered for a while and said sincerely: "If Xiao Chen believes me, how about I make a suggestion?"

Chen Yu nodded: "Please speak!"

"Xiao Chen, you are better at hot dishes, and you are not superior in cold dishes! It is better to focus on hot dishes, and cold dishes are only used as auxiliaries.

This: Okay then, Mr. Wu.

That's fine. Should I help you register when you sign up, or do you go by yourself?

Chen Yu smiled faintly and said: "I'd better go by myself for the registration matter, I'll start from the preliminary round and learn more from other people's skills, that's the best! I'm still a novice!"

Well, that's it for today, since I said that I won't stay, we will leave first if we still have something to do.

Okay, Mr. Wu, Brother Wang, goodbye.

Well, goodbye.

Chen Ang turned his head and smiled, and continued to clean up the warehouse. In his opinion, with systematic help, this Manchu banquet is just a piece of cake.

Naturally, the champion is also handy.