Buddha's delight
Meatless Chinese dish
Buddha's delight is a traditional Chinese vegetarian dish served in Buddhist cuisine, typically featuring a variety of vegetables, tofu, and other plant-based ingredients like mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and lily buds.
The dish is associated with Buddhist temples and vegetarian feasts, particularly during Lunar New Year.
Also called lo han jai or Buddha's feast.
- tofuCoagulated soy milk block
- mock meatPlant-based protein imitating animal flesh
- vegetarian cuisineFood without meat
- shiitake mushroomsEdible East Asian fungus
- wood earEdible tree fungus
stir-frying · Buddhism · Buddhist monastery · vegetarianism · lotus root · fasting rituals · temple offerings · steaming · bamboo shoots · napa cabbage · water chestnuts · compassion · mindfulness · Lunar New Year · blanching · snow peas · purity · braising
- festive foodsChristmas ham, Christmas pudding, Easter eggs, wedding cake, birthday cake
Buddha's delightPeking duck
Roasted glazed Chinese poultry
roast pork · char siu · beef stew · charcuterie board · surf and turf
Buddha's delightfoie gras
Fattened waterfowl liver
blood sausage · shark fin soup · suckling pig · game meat · veal
Buddha's delightpork belly
Fatty porcine underside cut
blood sausage · chitterlings · haggis · game meat · wild boar
Buddha, delight, delightful, delightfully, delights, delighted, delighting