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Origin
Fuzhou, Fujian Province — created during the Qing Dynasty for official banquets; the dish embodies Fujianese culinary luxury
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Description
Fo tiao qiang: Fuzhou's legendary imperial-banquet soup, so aromatic that even a vegetarian Buddha would jump over a wall to eat it. Abalone, sea cucumber, fish maw, shark's fin (traditionally), dried scallops, pork knuckle, chicken, ham, and 30+ other ingredients slow-simmered for days in a sealed ceramic pot. The epitome of Chinese luxury banquet cooking.
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The Thread
—French pot-au-feu (French multi-ingredient braised meat soup)
—French cassoulet (slow-cooked multi-ingredient casserole)
—Spanish cocido madrileño (slow-cooked mixed meat stew)
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Flavour Context
Deep, complex, multi-layered — decades of culinary tradition compressed into a single pot; impossibly rich
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