Henan eight bowls mainly include four meat and four vegetables. The four meat is mainly pork, selected elbow meat, hindquarters meat, divided into curd meat, small crispy meat, buckle meat, square meat; four vegetarian dregs, seaweed, vermicelli, tofu-based, through a unique process of production.

Henan eight bowls concentrated steak, stewing, sauce, burning, stewing, frying, steaming, stir-frying and other cooking techniques, the eight bowls in Joon County, Henan Province, which have been passed down for a long time, are inherited from the Manchu taste and combined with the eating habits of the Han Chinese.

The more famous recipes of the eight bowls are: Manchu eight bowls of fried small tofu with snow peas, brine shrimp and tofu eggs, grilled pork knuckles, burnt chicken, chickens and mushrooms powder, braised vegetables, the Royal Palace of Tsubaki fish, Ama Zun meat, of which Ama Zun meat is most representative of the popularly known as Nurhachu gold meat, is the era of the Qing dynasty, passed down the Nurhachu

The eight bowls of props from the view of the essential supporting utensils are the eight large bowls Bowls regardless of the soil bowl, porcelain bowl, but must not be bowl or plate, large bowls used to load dishes, small bowls used to eat; wine goblet more porcelain goblet, and then gradually changed to use glass goblet.