The Eight Peaceful Beauties Recipe
Cold Dishes Recipes

Ingredients:

6
5/6 lb
3 T
2
2/3 lb
11/3 lb
1 T
2 T
1 1/2 T
1/4
1/3 lb
1/3
4 T
1/3 lb
a dash
1/4
2/3 lb
1/2
2 T
4
1/6 lb
2 pieces
1/3 lb
4
a little
3
1 can
1
 

salted eggs
onion fragrant
white sugar
egg yolks
shrimps
Chinese cabbage
salt
vinegar
sesame oil
pineapple
pork heart
salted ham
flour
pork fat
red pigment
cucumber
oiled chicken breast
carrot
cornstarch
chemical egg
abalone
meat dumplings
garlic peanuts
hot red pepper
parsley
tomato
asparagus
lettuce
 

Directions:

1. Put salted egg in cold water and boil for 2 minutes. Remove the egg yolk from one end through the shell.

2. Chop up 2/3 lb onion fragrant and extract juice. Marinate with 1t sugar, 1T egg yolk. Mix well, then set into centre of salted egg together with one shrimp.

3. Shred Chinese cabbage, and put into steam pot. Then put in the eggs prepared above. Steam over high heat for 6 minutes. Remove shell and cut the eggs crosswise in thickness of about 1/2 inch.

4. Clean and scald shrimp; then remove head.

5. Shred and scald cabbage. Then add salt, squeeze dry. Add 2T white sugar, 2T vinegar, 1T sesame oil then mix well. Place cabbage on the bottom of the plate.

6. Remove stem of pineapple and slice. Scald 1/6 lb onion fragrant then tie into bundles.

7. Slice pork heat (about 3/4 inch thick, 15/8 inches wide, 25/8 inches long). Boil salted ham and slice.

8. Mix 1 egg yolk with 4T flour, 1/4t salt, and 1t sugar to a paste.

9. Melt pork fat, add in red pigment, then flour paste. Deep fry well in pan. Remove and slice. This is called Korean meat.

10. Clean cucumber. Cut into two halves and then cut again into two sections. Slit into connected slices and form into shape of flower.

11. Cut oiled chicken meat (about 11/8 inches wide and 2 inches long).

12. Boil and mash carrot.

13. Mix 2T cornstarch with little water and boil to paste. Mix 1/4t salt, 1t sugar, 1t sesame oil and mashed carrot.

14. Shell chemical egg then steam and cut into round shape (about 1/2 inch thick).

15. Slice abalone slantwise (about 11/8 inches wide, 23/8 inches long).

Setting and Garnish (plate A to I):

1. Put one salted meat dumpling in the plate. Cover with garlic peanuts.   Garnish with hot red pepper, scallion, and parsley.

2. Put the other salted meat dumpling in the plate, cover with shrimp.

3. Arrange chicken meat at the centre of the plate with all the ingredients mentioned in paragraph 5. Garnish with tomato slice and parsley.

4. Put the shredded cabbage at the bottom of the plate and put the abalone on top. Garnish with tomato and parsley.

5. Arrange pineapple at the centre of the plate, with the bundled leek at both ends. Place pork heart slices on top. Garnish with pineapple slices.

6. Put shredded vegetable at the bottom of the plate and place Korean meat, slated ham slices on top. Garnish with tomato and parsley.

7. Arrange egg slices made under paragraph 3. Squeeze mashed carrot in the center. Garnish with cucumber, tomato and lettuce.

8. Put shredded vegetable at the bottom of the plate. Put asparagus on top plate cover with mashed carrot; garnish with parsley and hot red pepper.

9. Set chemical egg in the plate. Garnish with parsley.

Notes:

1. This dish is a well-known Taiwanese dish offered during dinner parties.
    

2. Arrange G plate in the center, representing the husband, and the other plates around it as 8 wives living together with their husband peacefully, This symbolizes happiness.