Liping Eight Bowls is a specialty delicacy in Liping Town, Nanzheng County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. Liping's eight bowls focus on nutrition and taste, and pay more attention to the reasonable combination of meat and vegetables. It has formed the taste characteristics of salty, spicy, sour and fragrant, and is characterized by crisp, tender, refreshing, crispy, soft and glutinous, delicious and distinct texture.

The earliest eight bowls were mainly pork, and the bowls were all meat. Usually, a table of eight large bowls uses more than six kilograms of meat, with eight slices or pieces of meat in each bowl. Such as: sliver meat, cube meat, rice vermicelli meat, steamed sausage, steamed blood meatballs, steamed native chicken, steamed crispy meat, cured sausage, steamed bacon and pork ribs, stewed lotus root with ribs, steamed game, etc. It reflects that the host is well-off and treats others kindly. The emphasis is on affordability and satisfying cravings. The generous and hearty scene of eating with a large bowl of wine often leaves a deep impression on those who eat, and makes those who have never eaten have unlimited reverie. Although the meat is not separated from the bowls, the cooking methods are different, and the auxiliary vegetables at the bottom are also different. They are all local specialties, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, dried bamboo shoots, dried green beans, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, tofu, red beans, etc. White radish etc. The eight bowls of dishes are characterized by rich, savory, salty, sour and spicy flavors.

Long-lasting interpretations and constant changes, Liping’s eight bowls today have the characteristics of salty, spicy, sour and fragrant tastes, with crisp, tender, refreshing, crispy, soft and glutinous, delicious and distinctive texture. Characteristics: On the basis of inheriting the essence of Laoba Big Bowl, it is integrated into people's current eating habits, paying more attention to nutrition and taste, and paying more attention to the reasonable combination of meat and vegetables. Therefore, today's eight bowls in Liping are the finest delicacies that combine traditional techniques with modern civilization.

Eight bowls have been a form of catering culture on important occasions from the beginning to the present. The eight bowls are not necessarily limited to eight types. The cooking methods, especially the addition of auxiliary ingredients, will be adjusted and changed according to specific circumstances and different seasons. But the basic content hasn't changed much. Eight people sit around each table, and eight large bowls are served. There are eight portions in each bowl, and everyone shares them equally.

The dishes in the eight bowls are rich and diverse. According to the principle of reasonable combination of meat and vegetables, there are dozens of combinations of dishes in the eight bowls. Such as five meat and three vegetarian dishes, four meat and four vegetable dishes, three meat and five vegetable dishes, five meat and five vegetable dishes, eight bowls and one dish, ten bowls and one dish, twelve bowls and one dish, etc. No matter how the combination changes, the common ones on the eight bowls include: sliver meat, cube meat, rice vermicelli meat, steamed sausage, steamed blood meatballs, steamed native chicken, steamed crispy pork, cured sausage, steamed bacon ribs, bacon, and acorns Jelly, blood tofu, green tofu, rice tofu, etc. With the changes in people's eating habits, the combination of meat and vegetables in the eight bowls has become the mainstream of today's diet. Therefore, acorn jelly, various types of tofu, and vermicelli noodles are very popular among people.