The original name of Buddha jumps over the wall was Fushou Quan. In the 25th year of Guangxu (1899), an official of Fuzhou Bureau of Official Money invited Zhou Lian, the Minister of Fujian Province, to flatter Zhou Lian, and made his family members to be the chef, and used Shaoxing wine altar to contain more than 10 kinds of raw and auxiliary materials, such as chickens, ducks, mutton, pork belly, pigeon eggs and seafood, and simmered them to make them, and they were named "Fukushouquan". Zhou Lian tasted it and praised it. Later, Nga Chef Zheng Chunfa learned to cook this dish method to improve, to Zheng Chunfa opened "Juchunyuan" restaurant, that is, this dish is a sensation in Yung City. Once, a group of writers and artists to taste this dish, when Fushouquan on the table to open the altar, meat aroma overflowing, one of the showman intoxicated, triggering poetry, immediately roaming chanting: "altar open meat aroma wafting the four neighbors, the Buddha heard the abandonment of Zen jumped over the wall to". From then on, it was renamed Buddha jumped over the wall. 1965 and 1980, respectively, in Guangzhou South Park and Hong Kong, to cook the Buddha jumped over the wall of Fuzhou cuisine caused a sensation, set off a Buddha jumped over the wall of heat in the world. Restaurants opened by overseas Chinese around the world often used Buddha Jumping Over the Wall dishes, which claimed to be authentic, to attract customers. Buddha jumped over the wall in the reception of Prince Sihanouk, U.S. President Reagan, Queen Elizabeth and other heads of state state banquet boarded the seat, was greatly appreciated, the dish is more famous.

Allusion to Buddha jumping over the wall:

Buddha jumping over the wall is a set of mountain treasures and sea food of the whole of the traditional dishes, reputation in China and abroad, was listed in the culinary world as the Fujian menu "chief dishes", so far, there are more than a hundred years of history.

Such a delicious dish, why is called "Buddha jumped over the wall"? There are three kinds of legends in Fuzhou folklore.

One is: according to legend, the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi the end of the year (1876), Fuzhou official money an official hosted a banquet Zhou Lian, Chief Secretary of Fujian, his Shaoxing wife personally cooked a dish called "Fukushouquan," which contains chicken, duck, meat and several kinds of seafood, and put in a Shaoxing wine simmered in the wine altar and made. Zhou Lian ate and praised, and then ordered the Nga Chef Zheng Chunfa imitation, Zheng Chunfa door-to-door, and in the ingredients to reform, more seafood, less meat, so that the dish more meat and flavorful and delicious. Later Zheng Chunfa left Zhoulian Nga House, capitalized on the operation of the Juchunyuan restaurant, "Fushouquan" became the main dish of the restaurant, only because of the Fuzhou language "Fushouquan" and "Buddha jumps over the wall" pronunciation Because of the similarity in pronunciation between Fuzhou's "Fushou Quan" and "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall", "Fushou Quan" was replaced by "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" and became famous all over the world over time.

The second is: Fujian custom, the third day after the new daughter-in-law married, to personally show a hand in the kitchen tea and rice skills, serve the in-laws, to win appreciation. Legend has it that a woman from a wealthy family, pampered, do not practice cooking, the eve of the marriage of the sorrowful. Her mother then took the family's delicacies are made into a variety of dishes, one by one, wrapped in lotus leaves, tell her how to cook. Who knows that the lady actually forget the burning method, in a hurry, all the dishes into a Shaoxing wine altar, covered with lotus leaves, put on the stove. The next day, the aroma wafted out, the family even praised the good food, which is "eighteen dishes in a pot to cook" the "Buddha jumped over the wall" origin.

The third is: a group of beggars every day with a potter's bowl around to beg for food, the beggar's leftovers of various kinds of food poured together to cook, steaming, fragrant. Monk smelled, could not help the fragrance lure, jumped out of the wall, feast. There is a poem for proof: "brewing start meat aroma floating ten miles, the Buddha heard abandoned Zen jumped the wall to."

The fourth and the first is not exactly the same: ...." Buddha jumped over the wall" is the first of the traditional dishes in Fujian cuisine. According to legend, this dish originated in the late Qing Dynasty, Fuzhou Yangqiao Lane, an official of the Bureau of official silver, a banquet at home to invite the Chief Secretary Zhou Lian, the official's wife personally in the kitchen, the selection of chickens, ducks, meat and more than 20 kinds of raw materials into the Shaoxing wine altar, carefully simmered into a meat dish, Zhou Lian taste after the praises. Afterwards, Zhou Lian took the court chef Zheng Chunfa to visit the official silver bureau. After returning to the Yamen, Zheng Chunfa carefully studied, in the ingredients to be reformed, more seafood, less meat, the effect is better than the former. In 1877, Zheng Chunfa opened a "gathering spring garden" restaurant, continue to study, enrich the dish's raw materials, the dishes produced by the rich flavor, widely loved praise. One day, a few showmen came to the museum to drink and taste the dishes, the hall official held an altar dishes to the showmen table, altar cover open, full of meat dishes, showmen smell intoxicated. Some people are busy asking what the name of this dish, A: not yet named. So the showman was present to recite poetry, which has a poem cloud: "altar open meat aroma wafting four neighbors, the Buddha heard the abandonment of the bullet jumped the wall." The crowd shouted. From then on, quoting the meaning of the poem: "Buddha jumped over the wall" has become the proper name of this dish, which has a history of more than 100 years.

As the "Buddha jumps over the wall" is dozens of raw materials simmered in an altar, both **** the same meat flavor, but also to maintain their own characteristics. Eat up soft and tender, rich meat aroma, but meat and not greasy; each material for each other to penetrate, taste in flavor. At the same time, the nutritional value is very high, has a tonic blood, lungs and intestines, prevention and treatment of cold and other effects. On the table, such as with Demoiselle radish (white radish cut into shreds) a dish, a dish of oil mustard chili, ham mixed with a dish of bean sprouts heart, mushrooms fried beans a dish, and then with the silver silk roll, sesame seed cake accompanied by food, it is more unspeakable, its flavor is infinite.

Speaking of Buddha jumped over the wall of this dish, almost all people know and have done a variety of imagery, but really ate Buddha jumped over the wall of the people are very few people, as learned as Mr. Liang Shiqiu, Yashua talk about Buddha jumped over the wall of the last but turned to the braised meat, not to mention me and other mortals. Fortunately, China's rich connotation of the extension of the Chinese character Chinese, for us to describe the famous dish of Fuzhou "altar burning eight treasures".

There are so many references to Buddha jumping over the wall that it's like the Chinese name of a Hollywood blockbuster, but neither the "altar-burnt eight treasures" nor the "Fukushuquan" are as famous as the "Buddha jumping over the wall", which is just a few words. But neither "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" nor "Fukushuquan" brings us endless imagination and enjoyment.

With eighteen kinds of main ingredients, twelve kinds of auxiliary ingredients to each other fusion. Between almost all of the earth's food, such as chicken and duck, sheep elbow, pork belly, hoof tips, hoof tendons, ham, chicken and duck gizzard; such as fish lips, shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, dried scallops, fish high belly; such as pigeon eggs, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, bamboo razor clams. More than thirty kinds of raw materials and auxiliary materials are processed and modulated, layered into the altar, as if an ambitious New Year's movie, a large number of natural extraordinary.

The simmering vessel of Buddha jumps over the wall has been using Shaoxing wine altar for many years, and there is Shaoxing wine in the altar to mix with the ingredients. Simmering Buddha jumps over the wall to pay attention to the storage of fragrance and flavor preservation, the material is loaded altar first with lotus leaves to seal the mouth of the altar, and then add a lid. The fire of simmering Buddha jumps over the wall is strictly pure and smokeless charcoal fire, boiling over a high fire and then simmering over a slight fire for five or six hours. Nowadays, there are hotels proclaiming how fragrant their dishes are, but compared with the Buddha jumps over the wall, it does lack a little subtlety. The real Buddha jumps over the wall, in the simmering process, almost no flavor out, but in the simmering into the open altar, just slightly lift the lotus leaves, there will be the fragrance of wine, straight into the heart and spleen. The soup is thick and brown in color, but not greasy. When eaten, the aroma of wine and all kinds of aroma mix, the aroma floats in all directions, rotten but not rotten, the flavor is infinite. I think this is the highest state of food.

Mr. Fei Xiaotong research Buddha jumped over the wall of the founding, a said, the invention of this dish is a group of beggars for food. These beggars carrying broken tiles, every day, four out of the meal, all the various leftovers in the restaurant set together. It is said that one day, there is a rice store boss went out, by chance to smell the street there is a wisp of strange fragrance floating, recluse incense and found that the broken tile cans in the leftover wine and all kinds of leftovers poured together, there will be different from the ordinary people's fragrance. The boss was thus enlightened, and went back to his store to mix all kinds of raw materials in one urn, paired with wine, and created the Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. It seems that this Buddha jumps over the wall and "called chicken" is a relative.

The second theory is related to a pampered woman, Fujian custom, there is a rule called "test kitchen". The new daughter-in-law after the third day of marriage must go to the husband's home in front of a large audience to try the kitchen. This is a test of the new daughter-in-law's ability to run the household, which is related to the future status of the daughter-in-law in the eyes of the in-laws. Legend has it that there was a woman who was spoiled as a child and did not know how to cook. Before she got married, she was worried about the upcoming cooking test. Mother for the daughter of the test, think of all the ways, the family collection of delicacies of the sea are looking for out, one by one after the preparation of lotus leaves into small packets, repeatedly instructed the daughter of a variety of raw materials cooking methods. Who knows that the bride to the day before the test kitchen, in a panic, completely forget all kinds of cooking methods. She went to the kitchen late in the evening, the mother wrapped a variety of raw materials, a package of unraveling, piled up a table with no way to start, at a time when there is no way to do anything, and listen to the in-laws to enter the kitchen. The new daughter-in-law was afraid that her parents would be picky, and saw a wine altar by the table, so she hurriedly filled the altar with all the ingredients she had brought with her, wrapped the mouth of the altar with the lotus leaf that she had used to wrap the ingredients, and put the altar on the stove that was about to extinguish the fire. Thinking about the cooking test tomorrow, the new daughter-in-law was afraid that she would not be able to cope with it, so she quietly slipped back to her mother's home. The next day, all the guests arrived, but the new daughter-in-law was nowhere to be seen. The in-laws went into the kitchen and found a wine jar on the stove, which was still hot. Just lifted the lid, the aroma was overflowing, the guests smelled the aroma and shouted in unison, which became the Buddha jumped over the wall. I think the new daughter-in-law also received positive feedback, otherwise we would not have had the good fortune to enjoy this "altar open meat aroma wafted to the four neighbors, the Buddha heard the abandonment of Zen jumped over the wall," the delicacies of the world. Even my Buddha is involved in the promotion, no wonder the fame of this Buddha jumped over the wall is so great.

Anyway, if I were Buddha, I would never be tired of jumping over the wall, I would do it myself. Hopefully, the essence of Chinese culture will continue forever, and Buddha jumping over the wall is one of them.

[edit]Nutrition Facts

-Calories (4293.09 kcal) -Vitamin B6 (2.22 mg) -Protein (594.52 g) -Vitamin B12 (26.46 mcg) -Fat (152.19 g) -Pantothenic acid (0.15 mg) -Carbohydrates (137.51 g) -Folic acid (191.40 micrograms) -Dietary fiber (1.68 grams) -Cholesterol (2780.80 milligrams) -Vitamin A (1223.92 micrograms) -Vitamin K (1.05 micrograms) -Carotenoids (10.20 micrograms) -Thiamine (1.15 milligrams) -Riboflavin (3.16 milligrams) -Nicotinic acid (122.94 milligrams) -Vitamin C (27.75 milligrams) -Vitamin E (23.44 mg) -Calcium (2473.34 mg) -Phosphorus (3968.94 mg) -Potassium (6091.98 mg) -Sodium (16.35 mg) -Iodine (773.81 mcg) -Magnesium (152.94 mg) -Iron (42.10 mg) -Zinc (472.12 mg) -Selenium (5.21 mcg) -Copper (2.45 mg) -Manganese ( 0.00 mg)

English Name

Steamed Abalone with Shark's Fin and Fish Maw