Midnight Food Store ｜ Can’t a person eat hot pot？

Old Beijing hotpot.

In the 20th episode of Empresses in the Palace, Yong Zhengdi had a family dinner with Nian Gengyao and Hua Fei. During the dinner, eunuchs served hot pot. At this time, Hua Fei said, "The weather is cold. Since October 15th in the palace, a pot will be added to every meal. For my brother’s coming today, although it is 14th, the emperor ordered the imperial kitchen to prepare this assorted pot. My brother must remember the emperor’s kindness when he drinks and eats. "

Nian Gengyao got up and gave thanks after hearing this. Yong Zhengdi said, "The pot keeps you warm. You are as one as my monarch and minister, and my heart is warmer. "

I wanted to cut a picture, but the play didn’t give a close-up of the pot.

Basically, as long as it is a Qing palace drama, hot pot will inevitably appear. In the 15th episode of Yongzheng Dynasty, May 4th invited the princes to dinner. What you eat is hot pot. The tenth brother opened the lid of the pot and said, "It smells good. It seems that the fourth brother really invited us today."

The tenth brother opened the lid of the pot and said, "It smells good. It seems that the fourth brother really invited us today."

Why is hot pot popular in Qing Palace? There is a saying that hot pot won’t let the dishes cool down, and it’s not easy to serve the wrong dishes. The dishes prepared at each table are unified, and they don’t favor one over the other. In addition, the semi-self-help cooking method of hot pot can reduce the pressure of the imperial kitchen.

According to the "Juju Zhu" of the Qianlong Dynasty in Qing Dynasty, on the tenth day of the first month of the forty-eighth year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong invited relatives to have dinner at Ganqing Palace and hosted 530 tables of palace hot pot. In order not to panic during the banquet, Zhang Yishi even rehearsed the order of serving in advance. "There are too many tables and too many people. As soon as the system is set up temporarily, it is inevitable that it will be uneven. Please put the tables and seats in the temple when you pay tribute to the fruit table, so that the eunuchs and others can put them outside, and by the way, remove the lid of the fire. The rest of the tables and seats outside the temple should be decorated in advance with guards and so on, and prepare for compromise … "

Open the search engine, search with "Guinness" and "hot pot" as keywords, and there are all pieces of good news about "how many people eat hot pot together in a certain place and create a new Guinness record". In history, the largest number of participants in the hot pot feast was the thousand banquet on the fourth day of the first month of Jiaqing.

The seating arrangement diagram of the Qing palace banquet.

This banquet is unprecedented, with 3056 elderly people celebrating the birthday of Emperor Tai’s Emperor Qianlong in the Imperial Palace. It is generally believed that there were more than 1,550 hot pots and more than 5,000 tasters at that grand banquet.

In 2014, @ Palace Museum issued a set of Weibo of hot pot utensils, which wrote:

"Rinse hot pot, is Chinese’s original food. The wok unearthed in the tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty is the hot pot. To the Qing Dynasty, hot pot even became a famous court dish, known as’ hot pot’. There are two basic forms: one is combined type, which consists of five parts: pot, stove bracket, stove ring, stove plate and alcohol bowl. It can cook food at the same time or warm food in a pot alone. The second is to bring a stove in the pot, burn charcoal fire in the stove, and boil water to cook food. "

Weibo, a set of hot pot utensils issued by @ Palace Museum.

It is popular in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region to prepare dishes properly and eat them by boiling water. The seventh episode of The Story of Midnight Food Store Tokyo tells the story of "One-Man Pot".

The "Single Pot" in the seventh episode of The Story of Midnight Food Store Tokyo.

The boss introduced: "In a single casserole, put bonito broth, Chinese cabbage, pork belly and Flammulina velutipes, and boil them together. That’s all." The boss also specifically mentioned that in his shop, eating single pots is accompanied by orange vinegar sauce made of bergamot.

The most frequent barrage in episode 7 of Midnight Food Store Tokyo Story is "Eating hot pot alone", as if one can’t eat hot pot.

There is a good saying: "Hot pot is a group of people’s maocai, and maocai is a person’s hot pot." As a foodie, I am always ready to be a "lonely gourmet".

The difference between hot pot, maocai, string, etc.