Ding Shi Lu

A manuscript of an imperial chef from the Qing Dynasty that was forgotten in the wall of a demolished old house. There are more than 2,000 lost ancient dishes, most of which only have their names left. There are only five words in the whole article about barbecued pork at the bottom of the pot: when the rice is done, the meat is done. The secret of Kunlun Baobao is only seven words: simmer it with fire without fire. Eight treasures tofu, Kangxi imperial meal, tofu is mashed and mixed with eight delicacies, and there is no chicken when eating chicken. Clove duck has the same source of medicine and food. It is soaked in marinade and soaked in rock sugar to absorb the juice. It warms yang and tonifies deficiency. This is a code that needs to be cracked. The restoration of each dish is a dialogue with the imperial chef from a hundred years ago. The 42-year-old chef Guo Quan used 24 years of experience on the stove to bring these dishes from paper back to the world one by one. He is not a chef and has no system. All he had was a pair of hands that had stood in front of the stove for twenty-four years, and an idea that he didn't want good things to be buried.