There are the following kinds of "eight-character dishes":

* ** Babel giant salamander. * * This is Guizhou cuisine, and the main cooking technique is burning.

* ** Babel Duck. * * This is a delicious food in Suzhou and Shanghai, and it is also one of the top ten famous dishes in Shanghai. It is best to eat in winter. The duck chef will remove the bones of the duck, gut the duck, fill in glutinous rice and diced ham, mushrooms, lotus seeds, diced bamboo shoots, sausages and other ingredients, and tie a knot in the middle to make the duck gourd-shaped, also known as the eight-treasure gourd duck.

* ** eight-treasure rice. * * This is a traditional Chinese pastry with stuffing, which is steamed with glutinous rice and a variety of food raw materials.

* ** eight-treasure porridge. * * This porridge is made of coarse cereals and beans as the main raw materials and nuts, longan, red dates and lotus seeds as the auxiliary materials.

* * Babaoji. * * This is a delicious food made by stuffing the whole chicken into eight kinds of ingredients such as glutinous rice, chestnut and kidney bean.

* ** Babel Duck. * * This is a famous dish of Han nationality in Shanghai, belonging to Shanghai cuisine.

* ** stuffed melon with eight treasures. * * This is a method of hollowing out cantaloupes and filling them with various ingredients such as eight-treasure rice, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, scallops and ham.

* ** other dishes. * * There are eight-treasure pears, eight-treasure dumplings, eight-treasure tofu and so on. There is another explanation for the eight-character dish, which is a dish named after eight characters in the cooking process, such as eight-character bean sprouts, eight-character cucumbers, eight-character sword beans, eight-character radishes, eight-character vermicelli, eight-character dried silk, eight-character lotus root slices, eight-character pickled mustard tuber and eight-character mustard tuber.

These are just some common eight-character dishes, and many other eight-character dishes may exist in various cuisines. The name of "eight-character dish" may be derived from the shape of ingredients or cooking methods. For example, the "giant salamander" in "Babel Baby Fish" actually refers to dishes made with ingredients similar to the shape of giant salamander. The "eight treasures" in "Babel Rice" refers to eight different dried fruit ingredients, such as orange cake, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, red and green silk, and green plums, used in the production process.