Dongpo meat:

Dongpo meat is a famous dish at home and abroad at present. It is said that Su Dongpo loves pork very much and knows cook the meat's tricks. He wrote a doggerel when he was in Huangzhou. Clouds. "Huangzhou good pork, the price is like dung. The rich refuse to eat, and the poor don't know how to cook. Slow fire, wash the pot first (flat-bottomed shallow pot), there is less water, and the firewood head (a method of stewing fire) can't afford it. Don't hurry when it is ripe, it will look good when the fire is enough. Come and play two bowls early every day. I'm so full that I don't care.

Su Dongpo often cooks at home to entertain guests according to this method of stewing meat. Later, it was not limited to pork, but also used for mutton, with various delicious seasonings. You don't need chopsticks when you eat, you can only eat with a spoon, which shows how well the meat is cooked. Over time, this dish spread all over the south, especially in Zhejiang and Guangdong. People call it "Dongpo Meat".

Dongpo soup:

This is a vegetarian soup with wild cabbage and rice plants as the main raw materials, which can cure diseases. After discovering the curative effect of this soup, Dongpo once recommended it to his friend Xu Shier, and wrote to introduce that this soup "is not willing to be five flavors, but has a beautiful taste", and said that this taste is more beautiful than "eight treasures of land and sea". Later, the poet Lu You also made it according to Dongpo's method, and he also felt that "the beauty of food" was probably a delicious soup.

Dongpo tofu:

Su Dongpo also has a famous vegetarian dish-"Dongpo Tofu". This kind of tofu is made by frying tofu in onion oil, and then adding broken frames and sauce. Later, this dish became more exquisite and became one of the famous dishes in China.

In addition, there are other foods named after Dongpo, such as Dongpo cake and Dongpo honey wine. It can be seen that this generation of poets has made great contributions to the development of China's culinary arts.

Su Dongpo attaches great importance to diet health, especially vegetarian health. In "To congratulate Joe", he wrote such a poem: "It is useless to sing and dance wildly, and it is useless to expect nourishment." He also wrote in a note entitled "It is difficult to keep healthy in order to get rid of desire": "My husband is hungry and eats, but there are too many vegetables."

After he created a vegetarian dish "Dongpo Tofu", this innovative dish quickly spread in Huangzhou. Soon, he was transferred to Hangzhou, Zhejiang and Huizhou, Guangdong. Wherever he went, his Dongpo tofu was widely circulated there.

According to legend, Yi Bingshou, the magistrate of Huizhou, Guangdong Province, returned to his hometown of Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, bringing with him the production technology of Dongpo tofu, which gradually became a famous dish there.