百味松如
1921—1993
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百味松如
1921—1993
1984 New Year's Day gathering at the Great Hall of the People · Confirmed by a physical order slip · Deng Xiaoping: "I get to taste home flavor again — wonderful"
This tool is built from biographical material about Master Chen Songru and the physical order slip from the 1984 New Year's gathering · For educational reference only
Full disclosure: there is no historical record of Chen Songru's own words on this dish's flavor ratio. The four items below are a flavor-structure breakdown of the standard recipe from the manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters, based on its listed quantities — this is manuscript data, not Chen Songru's own account of the flavor balance. The dish's real evidentiary standing rests on the physical order slip from the 1984 New Year's gathering — see the "Confirmed by Physical Order Slip" card below.
⚠️ The gram amounts and breakdown above all come from the standard recipe in the manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters (see the "Standard Recipe" card below) — a generic method as recorded in the manuscript, not Chen Songru's own exclusive insight or words on this dish's flavor ratio.
"I get to taste home flavor again — wonderful."
— Deng Xiaoping, New Year's Day 1984, gathering at the Great Hall of the People Quotation relayed via biography/recollection
Note: the two kinds of evidence here should be kept separate — the physical order slip (Confirmed by physical order slip) only confirms that "Husband-and-Wife Lung Slices" appeared, by name, on that day's menu; this quotation itself comes from a biography/recollection, not text on the order slip, and the two should not be conflated. Husband-and-Wife Lung Slices shared the table with Sichuan Pickled Vegetables and Yu-Xiang Rapeseed Shoots, all three listed together on the order slip for the 1984 New Year's Day gathering at the Great Hall of the People.
The recipe below is drawn from the "V. Dish Preparation" chapter of the manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters; the dish name matches this page exactly (a high-confidence match). This is the standardized restaurant recipe as recorded in the manuscript — a reproducible recipe record — and it does not necessarily represent the exact recipe used at the 1984 New Year's gathering itself, or Chen Songru's own exclusive formula. The two are evidence of a different nature, presented side by side as they are, without reconciliation. The ingredients, gram amounts, and preparation steps below are condensed and retold, not copied verbatim from the manuscript.
| Category | Ingredient | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main | Beef | 2500g | |
| Beef offal (tripe, heart, tongue, honeycomb tripe, head, skin) | 2500g | ||
| Seasonings | Chili oil | 175g | |
| Fried peanuts | 175g | ||
| Master braising liquid | 2500g | ||
| Soy sauce | 150g | ||
| Ground sesame | 100g | ||
| Ground Sichuan pepper | 35g | ||
| MSG | 10g | ||
| Star anise | 8 pieces | ||
| Sichuan pepper | 5g | ||
| Cassia bark | 10g | ||
| Salt | 125g | ||
| Baijiu | 75g |
Seasoning ratio visualization (key seasonings, using chili oil at 175g as the baseline):
Bar lengths are proportional to gram amounts and are for visual reference only. Recipe and method drawn from Chen Songru's manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters. The specific preparation steps have been merged into the "Manuscript Standard Method" section of the "Follow the Old Master" panel.
No record survives of Chen Songru's own exclusive method for this dish, but the manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters contains a standard recipe (see the "Technique Matrix" tab). This site has organized its preparation steps into a "manuscript standard method," included below alongside the cultural-narrative steps. What follows first walks you, layer by layer, through the historical context behind this "physical order slip," followed by the manuscript's recorded preparation steps. Tap the circle on the right after completing each step.
The core of Husband-and-Wife Lung Slices isn't technique — it's this dish's standing as "physical order-slip evidence." Check whether you've understood the historical context of this dish point by point.
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