Food Story 1

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, a dish made from the fusion of eighteen main ingredients and twelve auxiliary ingredients. These include delicacies such as shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone, chicken, and duck. For many years, the cooking vessel for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has been a Shaoxing wine jar, where the famous Shaoxing wine is mixed with the ingredients. After the ingredients are placed in the jar, the opening is sealed with lotus leaves before the lid is put on. Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has the combined savory flavors of the ingredients while retaining their individual characteristics. It is soft, tender, and smooth to eat, rich but not greasy, with layers of flavor. It is also extremely nutritious, with benefits such as tonifying qi, nourishing blood, and preventing deficiency-cold conditions.