Traditional Chinese food: Beijing Eight Bowls

Traditional Chinese food: Beijing Eight Bowls
"Eight Bowls" is not only eight bowls, but it is made up of the eight main courses, regardless of cold dishes and staple food. Sometimes add the other vegetables dishes in the name of increased side dishes, the first batch of seats are for those VIP, adding dishes is the common thing, though there are more than eight dishes, people still maintain this title.　　
The “eight bowls" originated from rural banquets, traditional weddings, funerals, and even social day, all these gather family stay together for meals. This is as important as the sing the drama to celebrate of folk festivals. Because of the lack of tables and chairs, dishes and chopsticks, it has no choice to use the approach of "eat as soon as possible, eat then go".
In general, to eat the "eight bowls", we must determine the order of attendance according to the relatives' sparseness and fame of the host family. Although there are two priorities, the contents of the dishes are the same. Fast, available, weight enough, the taste is basically the same, mainly cooking style is steam and boiled, in full bloom with coarse porcelain bowl to show the enough amount.
Old Beijing folk "eight bowl" menu is basically a bowl of three yellow chicken, bowl of yellow croaker, bowl of pork elbow, bowl of meatballs, bowl of rice flour meat, bowl of buckwheat meat, bowl of meat and bowl of pork ribs.