This article is from the WeChat public account: Independence Research Institute(ID:buuuxiangji), author: rich diamond, from the head of FIG: visual China
Ivan from St. Petersburg, never thought that the most authentic meal of the Tsarist’s court meal he had ever eaten was not in Moscow, but in the far east Chinese city of Harbin.
What most Russians can’t think of is that Harbin’s czar’s court dishes are more authentic than those in Russia.
Since the 1980s, Harbin’s czar’s court cooking techniques have been quietly transmitted to its birthplace through exchanges of chefs and flights between the two countries.
Every year, Russian chefs come to Harbin to learn authentic Russian palace cuisine. Those Russian chefs who have travelled a few miles to Harbin by plane are just like Master Xuanzang who went to India to learn from the past. Harbin is their royal palace cuisine. Holy land.