Next came the exotic feast that everyone was looking forward to. Can the queen mother and the emperor not entertain when they come? At a moment's notice, we started to prepare. Most of the dishes at the banquet are exotic. The banquet in the Ruiwang Mansion is very formal, with dignified and handsome maids serving food, and behind each guest at each table stands a decently dressed maid and mother-in-law who is responsible for the cloth. is also smiling and has a beautiful figure. These maids and ladies are all palace maids given to Fujin by the Queen Mother, and they know the rules best. Very close to the table of the emperor and the queen mother is the eunuch Qin Gonggong, the chief eunuch of the palace, who is responsible for reporting the name of the dish.

When the dish was served, Father-in-law Qin shook off the dust and reported the name of the dish in a high and sharp voice:

"There are four ornamental dishes, the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious, the glory and wealth, the unicorn is in trouble, and the birds are the phoenix!"

When the four plates of lifelike ornamental dishes were carefully brought to the table where the Queen Mother was located, a surprise of admiration immediately sounded.

This is Yun'er carved out of carrots, green radish, white radish, heart-beautiful radish, pumpkin, gourd and other vegetables, and the other slightly smaller ones sent to the table of the Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs of the Kingdom are the elaborate masterpieces of Yun'er's disciples. The Queen Mother's eyes widened, and she stood up and leaned forward to look. The prince gently pushed the plate in front of the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother, the Emperor, this is what Yun'er learned in a foreign land." ”

The Queen Mother said loudly: "Lord Rui, there are immortals in your house!" Look, your majesty, this dragon is the same as the real one, shaking its head and tail, and the scales on its body are clearly visible. How did you get the white clouds? These peonies are better looking than the real thing, and this phoenix, how did this come about? They all flew up, and the feathers on the birds in front of them and behind them were simply vivid! And this unicorn, shaking its head and tail, it's so festive, it's great! Lord Rui, if you can, this palace will bring this dish back! Yun girl, come over and tell Huang Eniang, what did you do? has such a great ability, don't be arrogant! ”

All the civil and military officials laughed.

Yun'er came to the Queen Mother's side, gave a salute, and asked softly: "The emperor's mother must have asked Yun'er what material these things were carved out of, right?" This golden-red is carrots, green is green radishes and cucumbers, white peonies are carved with white radish, and purple-red peonies are carved with purple heart radish. This unicorn is carved from gourds, and the white clouds are also carved with white radish. ”

The Queen Mother looked intently at the dish of the dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, watched the phoenix dancing with the dragon spread its golden carrot wings and fluttering tail wings, and the rose-colored and white peonies bloomed under her feet. was very excited: "Yun'er, you girl can make such a delicate thing?" Hongu's daughter is a treasure! We also have ornamental dishes in the Qing Dynasty, and we are far from Yun'er's this! ”

The Queen Mother is very sorry, why is this Yun'er not her own daughter or daughter-in-law? Even if she is the queen, she is completely qualified.

After a little quiet, the maids and beauties rushed in again, bringing new dishes and putting them on the table. The prince flicked the top layer of the two-tiered dining table, and the glass on it immediately turned. Wang Ye introduced: "The upper layer can be moved, and if you can't reach the dishes in front of you, you can turn the round glass and turn it in front of your eyes." The Queen Mother pulled the glass in surprise, and sure enough, other ornamental dishes arrived in front of her.

The eunuch reported the name of the dish again: "Four dried fruits, fried shrimp chips, puffed French fries, spiced walnuts, and creamy peanuts"

Walnuts and peanuts are common foods here, but fried shrimp chips and puffed fries are unheard of, especially the word "puffed". Seeing everyone's surprise, Fu Jin picked up a piece of fried shrimp chips and put it in his mouth, making a crisp chewing sound. The Queen Mother also picked up a piece of the sample and put it in her mouth, chewed it, crispy, a little salty, a little fragrant, and a little bit of shrimp flavor. He praised: "It's delicious, everyone try the shrimp chips that Lord Rui brought back from a foreign land." ”

Everyone picked up the shrimp chips one after another, and it was indeed a taste that they had never eaten before.

Fu Jin took the lead in tasting the fries again, which had a very peculiar taste, in addition to being fragrant and crispy, there was also a little bit of spiciness. Someone boldly tasted the spiced walnuts, and they were delicious! Hurriedly tasting creamy peanuts is another taste, in addition to the rich peanut aroma but also the rich creamy aroma. couldn't help but admire: "Lord Rui's dried fruits are ingenious. ”

The eunuch continued to report the name of the dish: "Four Frozen Items: Milk Crispy Ice Cream, Cream Sandwich Ice Cream, Three-color Ice Cream, Mung Bean Ice Cream"

The prince and the prince have tasted the ice cream of the Rui Wangfu, or the product of the Rui Wangye's small trial stage, then everyone thinks the taste is wonderful, I don't know how it is now, you don't have to taste it politely, and you will be amazed when you get it in your mouth: "It's delicious!" It's so delicious! "It looks like it's poisonous, and you have to take a few bites.

The ministers hurriedly followed, and all the princes said that it was delicious, so is it still wrong? One for each person, and the freezing point on the plate will be divided.

The emperor and Concubine Tong patronized to see other people's gluttony and forgot to eat it themselves. said to the third prince: "Son, hurry up." Bing'er reads with you, how can you be the same as a mouse, come to the front to get it, and regret it for life if you can't eat it. Alas, I knew that the imperial brother had prepared such food that the Qing Dynasty did not have, so he brought Fuquan and Changning them. The crowd burst into laughter. It seems that the emperor is in a very good mood today.

"Four hot dishes: cola chicken wings, curry beef, shredded pork skin, crispy roast duck" Eight slender and beautiful maids came up with hot dishes like willows. They are dignified, gentle, and smiling as they set the dishes on the table. The wind blew away like willows.

Cola chicken wings and curry beef are not available in the Qing Dynasty, and the taste is unique, and the crispy roast duck is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. As for the shredded meat peel, shredded meat is a common thing, but the facelift is not. Everyone can't wait to test the poison at all, and Lord Rui will not be stupid enough to poison on this occasion. Why poison it? This is showing his peacock tail, if he wants to get the support of the emperor and the queen mother, why poison it? Eat with confidence, eat boldly, and eat with an open belly! It's so delicious, this tastes!

General Ao Bai looked at the Coke chicken wings in front of him, and whoever wanted to turn the dish away, he immediately turned back to himself. Prince An and Ao Bai are of the same age, and they are both ministers of the emperor, and they often tease each other. Seeing Aobai's domineering appearance, Prince An said: "That girl, you have to find a funnel for General Aobai to insert in his mouth, and pour this plate of Coke chicken wings directly into his stomach." ”

Everyone burst out laughing. Prince Jian also added: "General Ao and the chicken wings are fighting." ”

In the laughter of everyone, Ao Bai said unhurriedly: "Lord An, the slave is so hard to help you out, because it has violated your name, what kind of music is it called?" It seems that this general Ao is not a real martial artist, and his mind reacts quickly, and he immediately blocked Prince An's provocation. Prince An's name is Yue Le, and he actually took advantage of it like this.

The crowd laughed at Prince Ann again.

Fu Jin sat on Xue'er on his lap. Lord Rui invited guests and excluded other people's daughters, so the Queen Mother brought Xue'er as well. Fu Jin smiled and said to the Queen Mother: "Wait a minute, let your granddaughter try the taste first." "Actually, it's a drug test. Originally, I tried it with silver chopsticks, but I was afraid that the queen mother would not be at ease, so I asked my own daughter to try it. All the dishes on today's table were made by the chefs in the Fujin Command Mansion, and all the responsibility was on her, and she used her baby daughter as an experiment, which won the admiration of everyone present.

"Baby, this is crispy roast duck, you can taste it."

"Delicious! E-niang eats it. Xue'er smiled and ate the crispy roast duck that Eniang put on the plate. When she looked up, she saw the Queen Mother looking at her, and said politely: "Huangma, you eat, Xue'er tasted it first, I'm sorry." ”

The Queen Mother was a little stunned, her heart was hot, and she quickly picked up the chopsticks and said, "Ma Mo will eat it." Smelling the fragrance of these dishes, Xiu'er, you put the crispy roast duck in the middle with a dipping sauce to Bengong, and Bengong looked at the duck and was about to lame. ”

Everyone laughed. Fu Jin said: "How about you wait for the embroidery to taste you before you move the chopsticks?" ”

"Xiu'er, don't be like this, this palace looked at the roast duck slices that were not thin or thick, and there were ingredients, and I was really hungry. I also heard the movement of someone taking back the saliva that had fallen out. ”

Those present burst into laughter.

"Four vegetarian dishes: three fresh dishes, vegetarian sausages, cold salad and skin, tiger skin tofu". The eunuch's father-in-law reported the name of the dish again.

"Brother Huang, the taste of this place is so good! I'm going to ask you for a recipe and go back to the Imperial Chef to make it. ”

"It's simple, just go back and let Fujin copy a copy for you."

"Four hot dishes: fried fresh shellfish, fried beef tenderloin with green onions, pinched vegetables with golden mushrooms, and pearl fish balls."

(These four dishes are in the Manchu and Han banquets)

"Four Kinds of Gluttony: Snow Mountain Bread, Raisin Pudding, Banana Pie, Fruit Cake"

These things all belong to West Point, there are Westerners in the Qing Dynasty, but there are not many people in the Qing Dynasty who have eaten West Point, and it is West Point more than 200 years later. It's all fresh, and one person divides up the dim sum on the plate. When I ate it, I was thinking in my heart: "Thanks to the taste, otherwise it would have come in vain, Lord Rui is really amazing!" His two women are also terrible! ”

"Four hot dishes: slippery pork segments, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, shredded fish-flavored pork, and wonderful hand bean skin".

These four dishes are pure Northeast dishes.

"Exotic court dishes: almond tofu, chanterelle shiitake mushrooms, sweet and sour fish rolls, pearl snow fungus."

These four dishes are also Manchu and Han dishes, and they are mixed in to see the effect.

Father-in-law Qin reported the name of the dish unhurriedly:

"Exotic North and South dishes: sweet and sour pork ribs, boiled pork slices, squirrel osmanthus fish, pot roasted elbows, fried lamb with green onions, spicy chicken, casserole pot meat, braised hoof tendons, crucian carp across the river, and shrimp in a pot."

"Four cold dishes: lychee in sugar water, bayberry in sugar water, yellow peach in sugar water, pineapple in sugar water". Each of the four cold dishes is served on a fully transparent, slightly blue glass plate, with a mahjong-sized crystal ice cube stacked in the center, which sets off the watery fruit around it.

This is arranged by Fujin, in order to get rid of the tiredness.

"Two kinds of fruit juice: watermelon juice, grape juice"

This is what Fujin arranged for everyone to quench their thirst.

"Four hot dishes: chicken stewed mushrooms, pork stewed vermicelli, spicy steamed pork, golden and playful shrimp", hot dishes are served again, half of them are Kanto dishes, and Fujin just wants to see the reaction of the emperor and the queen mother.

The emperor, who had not spoken much, praised loudly: "Brother Huang, how can you have Eastern style dishes here?" ”

"Back to the emperor, these dishes are also exotic northern dishes, and the taste of northerners is heavy."

The emperor said, "Even with my taste! He turned back to the third prince and said, "Son, be quicker, put it in your stomach." Aya'er, what did you do when you arrived at your sister's house? Eat! Come to me and bring the bowl to the dishes! ”

Concubine Tong was very touched that the emperor could still think of herself on such an occasion, and affectionately called her own name, and hurriedly gave the emperor a salute: "Concubine thank the emperor!" ”

"Well, it's delicious, hurry up."

The third prince is very fond of eating slippery and cool powdered skin. The Queen Mother said: "You kid, why did you recognize this dish?" Try your aunt's chicken wings! Bing'er, whichever you like, stretch out your chopsticks to pick up the vegetables, there are many people, and you can't eat such things if you don't rush to eat. ”

"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Bing'er was very touched that the Queen Mother could still think of herself as a little person on such an occasion.

The eunuch's father-in-law reported the name of the dish again: "Sauerkraut and white meat, dried tofu with sharp peppers, Jude barbecue, chicken stewed hazel mushrooms." ”

Everyone became interested in dried tofu and discussed, "Is this tofu?" How do you get so thin? It's the taste of tofu, this Rui Wangye, after a trip, is really good. ”

The eunuch's father-in-law reported the name of the dish again: "Pull the sweet potato, pull the banana, pull the apple, pull the potato." ”

Pulling silk cabbage in the Qing Dynasty has not yet appeared, Ao Bai general to pull the silk cabbage to dip in the cold water to drink, and when the prince to show everyone, everyone will Ao Bai a good laugh, Ao Bai is not ashamed, said unashamedly: "Those who do not know do not blame." ”

"Two products of gluttony: straw hat cake, bean paste baked cake; A soup with a product: tofu brain". This is the staple food, indicating that the feast is coming to an end. ”

Tofu brain is a food that has been available in the Qing Dynasty for a long time, but the tofu brain of Ruiwangfu does not have the faint bitter taste of tofu brain in the market, it is very smooth and tender, how do you know that this is the gluconolactone point brought back by Yun'er from the exotic land. Just fill your stomach with straw hat cakes and bean paste baked cakes. But all of you here have eaten so much that you can't eat anything.

"Fruit platter: apples, pears, cherries, melons". This is for everyone to help with digestion.

All the dishes plus the main food are sixty-eight products, which can be regarded as relatively rich.

When the banquet was about to end, the prince stood up and motioned to the grandmothers of the cloth to pour orange juice into the cups in front of the guests. Smiled and raised the orange glass: "The Queen Mother, the Emperor, the princes, the princes, the princes, the princes, the lords, it is not easy for everyone to gather in the king's palace, everyone is working hard for the country, and you can enjoy the light to the palace of the king in your busy schedule, and the king toasts to everyone present to show respect!" Today is the king's family feast, and all the dishes are recipes brought back from foreign lands, I wonder if it can be smooth? If there is anything that is not to everyone's taste, please forgive me, please drink this cup to the full!

Everyone applauded the prince's modesty and sincerity.

All the people were full of food and drink, and they left the table with hiccups. The girls waited for the tea, and everyone praised this unique feast.