Sevenfold Resplendent Dishes

The Sevenfold Dishes are the elaborate foods which stand as centrepieces of the most important celebration feasts in Dynastic society, and are said to have been favoured by the Scarlet Empress herself, who set the master chefs of the Imperial Palace to their perfection. Each dish is drawn from one of the seven Great Schools of Cooking, and together they present a culinary tapestry that crosses all of Creation in ingredients and flavours.

Powdered Gold and Minced Jade: Southeastern School Cuisine dish, containing sliced fish mixed with orange

Desert Boat sails on Green: Southern School Cuisine dish of Camels' hoof simmered with rape hearts and cabbage.

Mother and Children get Together: A Marble Pagoda School Cuisine dish (sometimes called 'Immaculate School Cuisine' by its devotees), consisting of a Quail and its eggs cooked together.

Palm Controls the Land: A Northern School Cuisine dish containing chicken cooked with Bear's paw.

Leaves of Wind, Frost and Snow: an ancient dish of Jade Halberd School Cuisine (sometimes called 'Seventh Shogun School Cuisine') of Shrimp, sliced tender bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

Butterflies Swarm the Peonies: a dish of Eastern School Cuisine, made from Sea Cucumber, Prawns, Chicken-of-the-Woods Mushrooms, and Water Chestnuts.

The Conqueror says Goodbye to his Concubine: a dish of Western School Cuisine, consisting of fowl and soft-shelled turtle.