Anecdote · Kaifeng · Kaifeng City

Secret Recipes

Told by Thirteenth Lady Wu, Twelfth Lady Wu

There's something odd about the menu at the Incomparable Tavern, that all the dishes follow a pattern of location, grade, and food type. One recent listing: Kaifeng Top-Tier Spicy Pig Ears—a code, perhaps, for monitoring local sentiment and eliminating those spreading sedition.