Buddha Jumps Over the Wall ?

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall (佛跳墙) is a chinese delicacy that originates from Fuzhou, Fujian Province. With a history of over 100 years, Buddha Jumps over Wall is prepared with more than 20 ingredients, such as chicken, duck, pig's trotters and mutton, and stewed over a low fire with a jar for holding Shaoxing wine. Whenever this dish is served, the whole restaurant will be full of aromas. In the past a scholar composed a poem, saying: "All the neighbors enjoy pleasant aromas when the dish is served; and even a Buddha who is attracted by the smell jumps over the wall." Hence the name.

Last Saturday, my extended family celebrated my granny's 88th birthday in Spring JuChunYuan .The place is tastefully done up but a bit small.

Recommended dishes are:

1) Red Wine Chicken - chicken meat cook with ang chow 红糟 (residue from the making of red yeast wine). The chicken meat is very tender!

2)Stir Fried Heng Hwa Bee Hoon - if by just looking at the bee hoon, one would not find the bee hoon platable, as it looks too dry. However once you pour the sauce over it, it tastes very nice.

3) Fuzhou Yam Pudding 芋泥 - this is unlike the teochew yam pudding which is oily. This yam pudding is lighter on the oil and is yummy!!

besides the above 3 items, i think the other dishes are forgettable.

The Buddha jumps over the wall, supposedly the speciality dish, is a bit disappointing. I wonder if buddha will really jump over the wall for this? Haha. Though the ingredients used were good but the tastes is so so only.

The package we took was $1688+++ per table, and total bill came up to $8222 for 5 tables as there is a promotion of 20% off for HSBC platinum credit card holders. I personally think that once is enough liao for this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.