There are two kinds of eight bowls in Manchu: thick and thin. The thin eight bowls refer to: fried fish slices, stewed shrimps, family photos, osmanthus fish bones, stewed slippery fish, shredded Sichuan pork, Sichuan meatballs and loose meat.
The eight bowls are: stir-fried shrimp, stewed shredded chicken, stewed egg soup with crab roe, sea cucumber balls, silver ingot meat, clear soup chicken, braised chicken, home-cooked roasted carp and so on.
Eight bowls are often used for banquets. There are eight people at each table and eight dishes on the table. When serving, they all use a unified sea bowl, which looks refreshing, enjoyable and full of local characteristics.
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Eight bowls of Manchu banquet are the most common dishes in Manchu families, and the early eight bowls of Manchu banquet were only eaten in Manchu families. During the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, it was even more prosperous. Man-Han banquet has been developed in the catering industry. The Manchu-Han banquet was divided into eight treasures, the middle eight treasures and the next eight treasures. Eight bowls of Manchu are regarded as the next eight treasures of Manchu banquet.
According to the Textual Research on the Sacrifice Ceremony of the Han Banner, banquets are five ding and eight lights, commonly known as eight bowls, which are mostly used for banquets such as New Year's Day, festivals, celebrations, welcoming and marrying the rich. At that time, the eight bowls concentrated on cooking techniques such as roasting, stewing, sauce, roasting, stewing, frying, steaming and frying.
There are eight bowls of Manchu in different places, and the dishes are different because of different real estate ingredients. Eight bowls of Manchu in Chengde are made from local materials. The above eight dishes, such as stewed chicken with mushrooms, mutton in white soup, stewed meat with dried bean curd, stewed beef, stewed hairtail, white soup with white gourd, etc., are all carefully made with black iron pot and mountain firewood, which are pure natural foods and are deeply loved by people.