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Strange Name Of Dish How to name a dish is a interesting thing. When you open a menu in Chinese, maybe you don't know what it is? For example, TURN LEFT AND TURN RIGHT(左拐弯右拐弯),it is a dish of chicken wings. You can image the shape of chicken wings, then you will konw the reason. Another is BUDDHA JUMPING OVER THE WALL, it is a strange name, you would think it is a story about buddha. Actually, the reason is that the dish outside the wall smell dilicious, a buddha inside the wall want to eat. He can't go throught the gate ,it is a secret thing, so he dicide to jump over the wall to eat it. Be a Chinese, sometimes I am puzzled by the name too.

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Strange Name Of Dish

How what to name a dish is an interesting thing. When you open a menu in Chinese, maybe you don't know what it is. For example, TURN LEFT AND TURN RIGHT(左拐弯右拐弯),is a dish of chicken wings. You can imagine the shape of chicken wings, then you will understand the name. Another is BUDDHA JUMPING OVER THE WALL, it is a strange name, you would think it is a story about buddha. Actually, the reason is that the dish outside the wall smells so delicious that it makes dilicious, a buddha on the other side of  the wall want to jump over the wall to eat. He can't go throught the gate ,it is a secret thing, so he Decides dicide to jump over the wall to eat it. Being  Chinese, sometimes I am puzzled by the names  too.

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