Tanggao Chapter - A Dish, A Story: Tanggao Chapter

Author: Yiwen
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The "Soup and Stew" section of this volume includes a wide variety of ingredients, ranging from luxurious ones like abalone, shark fin, sea cucumber, snake, softshell turtle, and hair vegetable, to common ones like chicken, duck, fish, and meat, as well as ordinary ones like soybeans, radishes, and spinach. It covers everything; the flavors are diverse, including light, rich, savory, umami, aromatic, and spicy, each with a unique taste; the effects vary, some are appetizing, some are meal accompaniments, some are rice pairings, and many others are known for beauty and skincare, weight loss, soothing muscles and blood circulation, or refreshing after drinking. Some dishes are household names, such as Emerald White Jade Soup, Knotted Soup, Rock Sugar Lotus Heart Soup, West Lake Beef Soup, Borscht, Eight-Treasure Tofu Soup, and Three-Fresh Soup, while others are less well-known or even unheard of, such as Immortal Soup, Historian Snake Soup, Xi Shi Playing with the Moon Soup, Fuli Duck Soup, Jade Congee, Mackerel Lung Soup, and Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea to Play with Luohan. There are over sixty dishes, each accompanied by a story that is either hilarious, uplifting, enlightening, thought-provoking, or inspiring. While lifting the cup and tasting the delicious food, sharing stories, legends, and anecdotes, one can both enjoy the elegance and gain knowledge. It allows one to savor the essence of the food while also appreciating the endless aftertaste of the stories. Ordering dishes with jokes and drinking with stories—both the taste and the joy are unparalleled! Nowadays, we talk about eating our way around the world: duck in Beijing, hairy crabs in Shanghai, West Lake Vinegar Fish in Hangzhou, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall in Fujian. But who can tell how many untold, moving stories lie behind these dishes? Before tasting a new dish, if a vivid cultural context about it strikes your ears, will your appetite grow stronger, your enthusiasm rise higher, and your spiritual enjoyment become more delightful? This book organically combines recipes with lively stories, allowing readers to order dishes in restaurants like connoisseurs and host guests at home like skilled chefs.