"endless changes." The container is Tie Guai Li's medicine gourd, and the Eight Immortals are the first. But this gourd is made into a disc, which is filled with aged vinegar. As a god said, this precious gourd contains a panacea for life. "Two flutes gather immortals" is a kind of flute plate, which contains spicy and crisp dishes. The flute is Han Xiangzi's musical instrument. The Jade Pilgrimage is a jade plate containing squid and pig ear rolls. The jade plate is Cao Guojiu's musical instrument. "Lotus Out of Water" is a kind of lotus dish filled with crystal shrimp. He Xiangu is the only female among the Eight Immortals, and her musical instrument is a lotus flower.
In addition, the last four sets:
"Fishing Drum Daoqing" uses Zhang's fishing drum, which is filled with roasted oil of dried dried seaweed. Fishing drum is a musical instrument that Zhang usually uses as a backup singer. The basket-shaped box of "Flower Basket Welcome" contains radish rolls and cucumber rolls, and the flower basket is Lan Caihe's musical instrument. "Bao Fan Xiaoyao" is a fan-shaped dish filled with laver and minced fish, and Bao Fan is a musical instrument in Zhong Liquan. The sword-shaped dish of "long sword blowing dust" is brine and tofu. The sword and blowing dust are Lv Dongbin's musical instruments, and Lv Dongbin is the central figure of the Eight Immortals, with the greatest fame and the most rumors.
Eight Hot Dishes: Eight kinds of raw materials, such as sea cucumber, scallop, shrimp, shark's fin, ham, shredded belly, shredded mushrooms and green beans, are selected for the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea. "Hu Xian's treasure" means wealth and is made of sea cucumber, shark's fin, carrot, oyster mushroom, wax gourd and other seafood fungi. The extended meaning is that there are many treasures (vegetables) in Tie Guai Li's gourd, which are inexhaustible. "Wen Tao Pot-stewed" is a dish in which the whole fish or shrimp is roasted into a sweet, salty, red and white flavor. Only by praising Lv Dongbin, can he have high morale and high martial arts, and can he save the people from danger. "Wanbao Zhu Xian" uses abalone as the main material, and makes abalone into a kind of precious fish by using knife skills. Because abalone is the king of shellfish and the treasure of the sea, it is compared to the treasure of the Dragon Palace.
The "six eyes and six roads" which means all the best is cooked with sea crabs as raw materials. Because the crab's eyes can be more than 5 mm higher than its body, it is named. "There is a way to make money" is a vegetarian dish, which is cooked with raw and tender vegetables and rapeseed, and is named after the homophonic sound of raw, vegetable and oil. This dish is a family heirloom of Cao Guojiu. He likes vegetarianism, which is not only the need of becoming an immortal, but also the secret of keeping in good health. The story "Echo around the Beam" comes from Han Xiangzi, using prawns as raw materials and pebble heating method in cooking. When hot pebbles come into contact with shrimp balls, the reverberation around the beam gets its name. "Birds singing and flowers smelling" means a bright future. This dish is made of bird shells and Florists Chrysanthemum. Legend has it that the vegetable basket was a stranger wandering the streets and later became a fairy. He treats money like dirt, but there are always birds and flowers around him. Once, he was drunk in the street. When he woke up, there was a big basket of flowers blooming around him. After becoming an immortal, he became his treasure.
The Eight Immortals Banquet can be called a local Manchu-Han banquet in Penglai, but its style is closer to the "official dish" in Shandong cuisine. The ingredients are precious, but it combines the advantages of local seafood production, with dignified appearance and rich nutrition.