buddhist cooking

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Found this great tour cooking in Beijing in small vegetarian Buddhist restaurant near the forbidden city.
If you look for beijing daytrips culinary on google you find the company. They are called Chinafaces.
For providing a car with driver a guide translator, ingredients and creating like 5 dishes we had a great time.
Buddhist cooking is vegetarian because no meat or fish can be consumed and killed as these are part of the karma cycle.
So meats and fish tastes are replaced by mushrooms gluten, dou fu and other ingredients I had never used before.

We made a fish shapes dish that resembled the fish taste and texture, dou fu skins filled with a vegetable mushroom filling and some stirr fried dishes.

It was a great day and the translations done by our guide were clear. Also ingredients are based on hot cold body circulation. Meaning that you should not eat spicy when you have a cold as the cooling effect from red peppers after consumption is such that your immune system has to work even harder.

Anyway enjoyed it and will now use my newly learned skills at home.

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Photos

wok bearning flames
incredible temperatures with these burners killing bacteria and making the food taste better

mushroom pancakes
Filled mushroom pancakes, yummy

vegetarian fish
Fish that is not fish but tastes like it.

ingredients next to wok
With amazing speed these ingredients are added.

time for lunch
After 2 hours of cooking in the morning lunch was to be had. It was real fest and wish i could enjoy Chinese food more often. The variety of dishes here was amazing...