Fuzhou traditional dish -- “Fó tiào qiáng”

“Fó tiào qiáng”, English name is “Buddha Jumps over the Wall”, the most famous dish in my hometown Fuzhou. It has more than 100 years of history, it use to receive sihanoukville prince, President Reagan, queen Elizabeth etc in the China’s state banquet, deeply appreciated, so the dish be more famous in the world.

“Fó tiào qiáng”, old name is “Fu Shou Quan” which means getting all lucking and healthy. In Qing dynasty, to curry favor with dignitary, one of Fuzhou officer ask chief cooking a special dish. Chief installed chickens, ducks, mutton, haslet, pigeon eggs and seafood, etc, more than 10 kinds of food material to make it up, give the name with “Fu Shou Quan”. The dignitary taste good. Later, ancient ZhengChunFa has tried to improved the cooking method, and start offer in his restaurants “spring park", people getting crazy at once, a batch of cultural persons to taste the food, after tasting this dish, they are all fascinated by it, one of scholar triggering aimless and sing a way, the meaning is that:”its so delicious that even Buddha smells that will jump over the temple’s wall and come here to eat this” Since then it renamed “Fó tiào qiáng”. In 1965 and 1980, respectively in guangzhou and Hong Kong, south to cook fo jump a wall of fuzhou dishes mainly caused a sensation in the world, raised fo jump a wall heat. Open around the restaurant, multi-purpose Chinese self-proclaimed authentic fo jump a wall dishes, to attract customer