Qi: Lao Chen, do you know which dish is the most famous dish of our Lu cuisine?
Chen: You don't have to think about this, of course, it is the nine-turn large intestine.
Qi: Do you know why this dish is called nine-turn large intestine?
Chen: Of course, I know astronomy and geography. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a wealthy merchant surnamed Du had nine shops in Jinan, and the Jiuhualou Hotel was one of them. This Du boss has a special love for nine characters, and everything must be counted as nine, so the store size he opens is titled with nine characters.
JiuhuaLou was a famous restaurant in Jinan at that time, and the chef's skills were also very high, and he was good at cooking pork dishes, of which braised large intestines were the most famous. This dish is cooked and then fried and then cooked, repeated several times, and finally placed on the plate, ruddy and translucent, fat but not greasy.
Once Boss Du feasted on this dish, and everyone praised it after eating it. One of the literati came to Yaxing and thought that such a delicacy should be given a resounding name, and Boss Du was also very welcome. So the literati took into account Boss Du's love for the nine characters and the complicated procedures of this dish in the production process, and immediately named it jiu-turn large intestine. Everyone joked that it could be comparable to the Taoist "Nine Turns Immortal Elixir", and since then, the reputation of the Nine Turns Large Intestine has been growing and has been passed down to this day.
Qi: Great! This is a saying, and there is also a legend, which is also about the boss of Jinan JiuhuaLou Du. It is said that Boss Du believed in Buddhism all his life and worshipped the saying of "nine nine to one". Once he went to a friend's house to drink, the finished friend sent him a pig into the water, he let the chef make a fat sausage to taste, the chef returned to the kitchen to make it repeatedly, and finally made a large intestine with good color and aroma, Boss Du was very satisfied after tasting it, and decided to invite friends to give this dish a loud name the next day.
The next day, the guests came to Jiuhua Building, and when they ate the large intestine, they praised the deliciousness, and one of the friends knew that Boss Du believed in Buddhism, so he named it Jiuzhuan.
Chen: Okay, Lao Qi, you still know this, let's talk about it another day!
