Buddha jumps over the wall and inherits the essence of Fujian cuisine-fresh fragrance. Traditional Fujian cuisine is famous for its delicacies, which is also determined by the geographical location of Fujian. According to Fujian Tongzhi, "Tea bud trees are all over the world", "Fish, salt and mussels are rich in green", "Two faiths are all rivers run into the sea, and fish and shrimp enter the market regardless of money" and "mussels compete, which is sweet and delicious". It is not difficult to see from these poems that Fujian has a unique diet resource.
Fujian is bordered by the Taiwan Province Strait in the east and backed by rivers and mountains such as Wuyishan and Daiyunshan. In the coastal areas of Fujian, there are seafood such as fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, sturgeons and oysters all year round, while delicious foods such as tea, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, deer, eel and turtle are produced between mountains and streams. In addition, there are rice, sucrose, vegetables, litchi, longan, citrus and so on in the lower reaches of the river. It is such rich ingredients that create the fresh and fragrant style of Fujian cuisine.
Buddha jumping wall is the representative work of this rich food, which consists of 18 main ingredients and more than ten kinds of auxiliary materials. Its raw materials are chicken and duck, pork belly, hoof tip, tendon, ham and chicken and duck gizzard. There are shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, scallop and fish belly; There are more than 30 kinds of raw materials and accessories, such as pigeon eggs, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and razor clam. The Buddha-jumping wall is carefully made of these materials, and finally sealed in a jar with lotus leaves and simmered slowly.
The Buddha jumps over the wall is a famous dish in China, which has been a good dish at state banquets several times. Due to the use of a large number of precious ingredients, the taste of cooking is said to be "the gods can't stand it." This famous dish is called "expensive dish", and only local tyrants can afford it.