There are two ways to make eight bowls: coarse and fine. The fine eight bowls refer to: fried fish slices, stewed shrimps, family photos, sweet-scented osmanthus fish bones, stewed slippery fish, Sichuan shredded pork, Sichuan meatballs and loose meat. The eight bowls are: stir-fried shrimp, stewed shredded chicken, stewed egg soup with crab roe, sea cucumber balls, silver ingot meat, clear soup chicken, braised chicken, home-cooked roasted carp and so on. When eight bowls are used for the banquet, there are eight people at each table, and the eight dishes on the table are served in a unified sea bowl. Put an octagon.

2. Regional classification

Eight bowls of Muslim: stewed beef, stewed chop suey, carrots, long yam, kelp, vinegar-preserved Chinese cabbage, vermicelli, meatballs, fried tofu, etc. , limited to eight bowls, flexible and compatible. A little richer can serve two bowls of chop suey and two bowls of meat; If you are poor, you can only wear a "vegetable hat" on eight bowls, and all carrots are used at the bottom.

Zhengding eight bowls: mainly four meats and four vegetarian dishes. Four kinds of meat: square meat, crispy meat, elbow buttons, meatballs, etc. Take elbow meat and rear buttock meat as raw materials; Four elements: tofu (fried tofu or white tofu), kelp, vermicelli and seasonal vegetables (such as radish, cabbage and eggplant). ).

Eight bowls in Tengzhou: one golden rooster, two silver carp, three copper elbows, four jade eggs, five vegetarian dishes, six tofu, seven hot sauce, eight stir-fried dishes, which are mostly composed of chicken, fish, meat, eggs, potato chips, lotus root slices, peppers, celery, Chinese cabbage, soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, etc., with sweet noodle sauce.

Eight bowls of Buyi: stewed bean rice with pig's feet, stewed tofu with braised pork, braised pork skin, crispy noodles, stewed radish with ribs, vegetarian pumpkin, vegetarian tofu and glutinous rice.

Linqing eight bowls: roasted meat, stewed mutton, Qiao Ge, Songhua mutton, clear meatballs, braised chicken, tenderloin and miscellaneous meat.

Five sets of eight bowls: dishes include mushrooms, ginseng, cattle and sheep, pheasants, rabbits, bracken, bitter vegetables, day lilies, oat noodles, corn, yellow rice and potatoes.

Eight bowls of Wanshan: Wanshan San and Sanweiyuan, Xianjiang Xianxian, Braised Monopterus albus, Braised Snail, Braised Mandarin Fish, Braised Fish, Peasant Eel, Carp, and snacks such as March Wine, Wansan Cake and Sugar Taro.

Eight bowls in Xuzhou: crispy fish sticks, tiger skin eggs, sugar elbows, shredded boiled chicken, eight-treasure rice, roasted slippery ridges and steamed chicken.

Eight bowls in Hefei: roast chicken, braised fish, braised pork, meatballs, braised elbows and any three stir-fried dishes.