Great brain, great prawnsA GIANT wooden bust of Confucius greets visitors to the Luweifang restaurant in Beijing, where diners may feast on “literary ginkgo”, braised hog rectum and other delicacies said to be part of a centuries-old culinary tradition developed by the ancient philosopher’s family. The restaurant, set up in 2011, is one of dozens across the country purporting to offer such delights. Now China is preparing to bid for UNESCO to register Confucius’s family cuisine as part of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity”.
China has already logged Mongolian throat singing, mathematical calculations on the abacus and a form of puppetry with UNESCO, as well as more prominent arts such as Peking opera and acupuncture. Confucian cookery would not be the first culinary entrant: washoku, traditional Japanese cuisine, attained this status in 2013, and North and South Korea have each separately listed kimchi, the seasoned, fermented vegetables beloved on both sides of the demilitarised zone. Even the “Mediterranean diet” is catalogued.
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