The Manchu eight dishes and eight bowls date back to 1619.

After the victory in the Battle of Sal Lake, eight pavilions were erected in the Jinluan Palace in the city, and the spoils were divided into eight parts.

Overjoyed, King Lao Han asked each banner to serve one dish and one soup. It happened that the dishes presented by the Eight Banners women were four cold, four hot, four meat and four vegetarian.

King Lao Han was happy, which meant that the country was stable.

From then on, whether it was King Lao Han's celebration banquet or a folk wedding banquet, Manchu people had to eat eight dishes and eight bowls.

"Eight dishes" usually consists of four cold and four hot dishes, while "eight bowls" usually consists of four meat and four vegetarian dishes.

It focuses on cooking techniques such as grilling, stewing, sauce, roasting, stewing, stir-frying, steaming, and stewing.

Dishes include Northeastern-style braised pork, sauerkraut and white meat blood sausage, chicken stewed with mushrooms, skin jelly, vegetarian soup, harvest, pancake rolls with green onions, etc. The staple foods such as various Manchu sticky dough cakes are also very unique.

Jiang Xu, Manager of Houjin Hotel in Hetuala Old Town, Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province: Corn cakes, perilla leaves, pot stickers, and oak tree cakes all have Manchu characteristics.

(Reporter: What are these ingredients?) It is made of sweet potato powder, eucalyptus leaves, and stuffed with water celery and meat in the middle.

Then Suziye is the Manchu sticky mouse.

It is sticky rice with su cotyledon leaves and adzuki bean filling.

(Reporter: Why is it called sticky mouse?) You can see that the shape of the bag looks like a mouse, so the Manchus call it sticky mouse.