To talk about Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite food, we must first talk about one person, that is, Yu Deling of Empress Dowager Cixi. This woman once recorded in the book that Empress Dowager Cixi lived all her life just to eat. According to historical records, Empress Dowager Cixi especially likes to eat folk snacks, and she also set up a western-style restaurant for cooking.
Empress Dowager Cixi likes to eat four kinds of fried shrimp, namely prawn, kidney flower and fish fillet. Besides these, Empress Dowager Cixi especially likes to eat roasted meat and bean sprouts. She also specially collected chefs who can cook these dishes from all over the country and sent them to her own small kitchen as cooks.
During the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, according to the rules, there must be 100 bowls for two meals a day, and no repetition is allowed; There should also be 20 bowls between meals. It can be said that eating is quite wasteful and extravagant, and many dishes are completely served, either eaten by palace maids or thrown away. But there is a dish that Empress Dowager Cixi loves most, which is absolutely unexpected.
The name of this dish is clear soup and tiger gall. The ingredients are the testicles of the Siberian tiger, and the practice is quite complicated. First, you should stew this ingredient in chicken soup for about three hours, then take it out, peel it and soak it again. Then cut it into thin slices with a knife and dip it in the sauce.