Vegetarian dishes usually refer to dishes cooked with vegetable oil, vegetables, bean products, gluten, bamboo shoots, fungi, algae and dried and fresh fruits. Vegetarian dishes are divided into temple vegetarian dishes, palace vegetarian dishes and folk vegetarian dishes according to the object of consumption. The main characteristics of vegetarian dishes are: fresh, fresh and vegetarian; Colorful and beautifully made; It is nutritious, healthy and can cure diseases.

So far, there are more than 8,000 kinds of vegetarian dishes in China. According to its production methods, it can be roughly divided into three categories.

1. rolled goods: wrapped tightly with oil stuffing, thickened with starch and baked, such as vegetarian chicken, vegetarian sauce meat, vegetarian elbow, vegetarian ham, etc.

2. Halogen goods: mainly gluten and Lentinus edodes, such as jambalaya, Lentinus edodes gluten and hot and sour slices.

3. Fried products: fried products, such as vegetarian shrimp, Toona sinensis, pine nuts, fried boxes, etc.