Famous chefs in Qing Dynasty wrote poems with dishes.

Vegetable poetry "

A chef is proficient in poetry and can recite a beautiful poem every time he cooks a dish. A scholar posed a question on purpose. He gave the chef two eggs and asked him to cook several dishes, each of which should express an ancient poem. The chef readily accepted and cooked four courses. The first course is a stewed egg yolk and a few shredded onions; The second course is to cut the boiled eggs into small pieces, arrange them in a line formation, and put a green leaf under them; The third course is scrambled eggs; The fourth course, a bowl of clear soup, has four eggshells floating on it. I deeply admire this scholar.

Quatrain

Don du fu

Two orioles sing green willows,

A line of egrets rose into the sky.

The window contains autumn snow in Xiling,

Mambo Wu Dong Wan Li Ship.