The foods that Su Shi, a gourmet in the Song Dynasty, tasted were Dongpo elbow, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo jade cake, Dongpo leg, Dongpo bud cake, Dongpo mochi, Dongpo cake, Dongpo bean curd and Dongpo cake.
1. Dongpo elbow
Dongpo elbow, a specialty of Meishan City, Sichuan Province, is a national geographical indication product. Dongpo elbow has the advantages of milky soup, rotten pork elbow, tender meat, mellow meat taste, chewy head, fat but not greasy. In December 213, Dongpo Elbow was successfully awarded the title of National Geographical Indications Protection Product.
2. Dongpo Tofu
Dongpo Tofu is a special traditional dish, belonging to Sichuan cuisine. Su Dongpo, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty who was good at cooking, personally cooked the spoon. Tofu is rich in nutrition, containing many trace elements necessary for human body, such as iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, as well as sugar, vegetable oil and rich high-quality protein, and is known as "vegetable meat".
The digestibility of tofu is over 95%. Two small pieces of tofu can meet a person's daily calcium requirement. Tofu is a tonic, heat-clearing and health-preserving food. If eaten regularly, it can tonify the middle energizer, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and clean the stomach. It is more suitable for people with heat constitution, bad breath, thirst, indigestion and fever.
3. Dongpo Yuman
Dongpo Yuman is a famous dish cooked with yam. The name of "Yuman Soup" is very beautiful. It is beautiful because it was named by Su Dongpo, a great litterateur and gourmet in Song Dynasty. Apart from infiltrating the great litterateur's literary achievements, it also has a family and beautiful story.
It is said that Su Shi, a writer in the Song Dynasty, was demoted to Hainan, and his life was very difficult. Su Guo, the third son, cooked vegetarian soup for Su Shi with yam, and Su Dongpo ate it beautifully, improvising a poem to praise it, and Dongpo Yuman was handed down like this.
Brief introduction of Su Shi:
Su Shi (137-111), with the word Zi Zhan and the word He Zhong, was named Tieguan Taoist and Dongpo layman, and was known as Su Dongpo, Su Xian and Po Xian in the world. Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province) is a native of Luancheng, Hebei Province, a writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a historical water control celebrity. The father is Su Xun, the younger brother is Su Zhe, and the father and son are called "Three Sus".