Family photo is one of the traditional famous dishes, which is often served as the first dish at middle and high-end banquets. There are more than a dozen ingredients used in this dish. The seafood ingredients are mainly dried squid, dried shrimp, fresh metapenaeus ensis and fresh squid. The meat ingredients include sausages, pigskin, chicken gizzards and lean meat. The vegetables include dried mushrooms, yuba, fungus, Dutch beans, celery, bamboo shoots, peppers, onions, celery and carrots. The dried fruits mainly include peanuts and cashews.
Family photo dish is a healthy food that Hainan people always have on the dining table on holidays, and it is also a favorite dish of Hainan people's wedding, especially when Wenchang people in Hainan hold a banquet, the first dish is "Family photo". Generally speaking, this dish is delicious because of its rich ingredients. Therefore, having this dish in the New Year's Eve dinner will naturally set off this festive and happy atmosphere during the Spring Festival.
The legend of the family portrait dish:
It is said that in more than 200 BC, Qin Shihuang listened to the slanderers of Prime Minister Lisi and burned books to bury Confucianism. Countless history books were burned and hundreds of Confucian scholars were buried alive. Some Confucian scholars were lucky not to die when they were buried alive. They woke up at night, sneaked out of the pit and hid in the mountains. Fang Cai hid in the mountains for several days, but he was so hungry that he quietly returned home at night, and his wife and children met with mixed feelings. In order to survive, Fang Cai had to bid farewell to his wife and children again in tears and live in exile.
After Qin Shihuang died several years later, Fang Cai returned home happily. Who knows where his wife and children are? Fang Cai felt sad and angry, and felt that it was meaningless to live alone in the world. It was better to die, so he jumped into the rolling river. It happened that a fisherman passed by here and saved him. The fisherman led Fang Cai to his home. When Fang Cai met the fisherman's son-in-law, he immediately recognized that he was the real son he was looking for everywhere. The father and son cried bitterly.
With the full help of the fisherman, Fang Cai found his wife and daughter living on the streets again. In order to celebrate their family's close escape and happy reunion, the fisherman specially invited a well-known chef to make a sumptuous family dinner for the Fang family. The chef painstakingly cooked a dish for them called "Family Portrait". After eating it, the villagers were full of praise, and it spread widely, and later it was introduced to the court and became a famous court dish. "Family photo" means family reunion, happiness and good luck.