Manchu-Han Banquet

The Manchu-Han Banquet was one of the grandest meals ever documented in Chinese culinary history and consisted of (at least) 108 dishes served in six meals over the course of three days. It is said that there were “Thirty-Two Delicacies,” referring to the more exotic ingredients used for the banquet. The “Eight Mountain Delicacies” included such dishes as camel’s hump, bear’s paws, monkey’s brains, ape’s lips, leopard fetuses, rhinoceros tails, and deer tendons.