Eight bowls are often eaten by Manchu people, but Manchu people have a vast territory and different ingredients, so the types of dishes are different. However, these five pots and eight lights all focus on cooking techniques such as stewing, sauce, roasting, stewing, frying, steaming and frying.
The method of eating eight bowls has been passed down until now, and many places still say "eat eight bowls" when eating wedding banquets. Because Hui people believe in Islam, everyone abides by religious rules and doesn't drink alcohol, so there is no need to prepare a special snack. Everyone eats the same set of food. Islam also requires everyone to be frugal, so there won't be many leftovers at every banquet.
Hui people are hospitable, so there is a special banquet form-"Muslim Eight Bowls". There will be eight bowls of stewed beef, stewed chop suey, carrots, long yam, kelp and vinegar cabbage in the "Muslim Eight Bowls", which can be freely matched according to the living environment of the host family.
When eating eight bowls, if the owner has money, he can cook more meat, but if the conditions are poor, he can also put carrots at the bottom of various dishes in the form of "vegetable caps". Because the eight bowls have a long history, the stewed beef and chop suey of Hui nationality are the characteristics and fine products of Muslim home cooking.
Among them, the Manchu Eight Bowls in Chengde are the most famous, which contain several dishes, such as stewed mushrooms with chai chicken, mutton in white soup, stewed meat with dried bean curd, stewed beef, stewed hairtail, white soup and melon. This is a famous dish in China.
Because the Manchu government ruled the Central Plains for more than 200 years, the eight bowls of the Qing Dynasty also flowed to the whole country. There were eight bowls in Anhui, Shandong, Hebei and other places, but the dishes made were different from the local materials.