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Food has been together with culture and society for a long time, regardless of what era it is, especially choosing a good diet will strengthen your body to prevent disease. Moreover, the search for super-rare ingredients to create a high nutrition menu that many people want and strive to taste. Today, ACU PAY will take everyone back in time to see the origin of the great Chinese restaurant menu with a strange name but interesting called “Buddha Jumps Over the Wall”
Buddha Jumps Over the Wall (佛跳墙 pinyin: fó tiào qiáng) is a food native to Fujian Province, which is located in the southeastern coastal province of China. It is said to be a very popular menu among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, with many stories, one of which was in the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1912). Legend has it that when the soup in the liquor jar was brought out to open, it smelled so sweet that a monk or Chinese Buddhist priest who lived at a nearby temple couldn’t stand it and jumped over the temple wall to ask for a taste of this soup, thus becoming the origin of the name ‘Buddha Jumps Over the Wall’.
Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is made from many types of ingredients from both forest and sea. Most of them focus on high-grade ingredients such as shark fins, sea cucumber, shiitake, abalone, and fish maw in soups made from Chinese herbs such as ginseng, goji berry, and cordyceps. This makes the menu rich in protein and calcium to maintain health, so it is more expensive than other foods. However, sometimes it depends on what you want to add to the soup because if you believe that this is good, can maintain health, and tastes good can be added to the soup as well.
For the original seasoning, there will be a meticulous cooking method from preparing ingredients such as soaking, frying, and boiling some ingredients in advance before arranging one layer at a time in a jar to be beautiful and may cover the jar with lotus leaves to stew for 8-10 hours. This delicate and long-time stewing method will bring out the sweetness and thicken the soup while stewed meat and seafood will have a soft, juicy texture. However, nowadays most Chinese restaurants use the stewing method and serve only broth instead.
The ‘Buddha Jumps Over the Wall’ is full of good value and nutrients, and has even been called SuperFood, a super nutritious food suitable for health care, which consist of;
Sea cucumber
Fish maw
Abalone and Scallops
Meat and bones from pork, ducks, and chickens, including quail eggs.
Herbs such as ginseng, goji berry, bamboo, and ginger
The benefits of meat and herbs packed in the soups made us have no wonder why the ‘Buddha Jumps Over the Wall’ menu is more expensive than the general menu and has maintained its status as a legendary top menu, along with Chinese culture for many generations. Nowadays, we can eat this menu much more easily than before. We can eat it at restaurants, Chinese restaurants, or even on our own by simply modifying the materials we find near home.
No matter where you have this menu, it is undeniable that the sweet aroma of soup is boiled until it has a mellow taste. There is no wonder that we may be one of those who jump over the wall to get a taste from this menu.
