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However, many of the recipes for such "foods of the emperor" were later

smuggled out of the kitchen and onto the streets of Beijing. With the eventual
fall of the Ching dynasty in 1911, court chefs who left the Forbidden City

founded restaurants around Beijing and brought Peking Duck and other
delicious dishes to the masses.

2. Hotpot

The warm temperature within the hot pot is symbolic of the heat of tender

feeling that those people sitting around it have for one another, while the form

of the apparatus may be a hint at the dearth or complete absence of
irregularities within the man-to-man relationship. Undoubtedly, this manner of

eating isn't only a figurative embodiment but a visible indication of the
willingness to eat from the identical pot and to share the identical lot. this can

be the foremost highly prized merit of group consciousness. the new pot isn't
only a cooking method; it also provides some way of eating. it's not only a

dietary mode; it's also a cultural mode.

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