I woke up late this morning too lazy to go out and eat. When I opened my cupboard, this is the only food I had left:

Hmm... Buddha Jump Over the Wall?

Buddha Jumps Over The Wall is an expensive Chinese stew containing meats and other stuff so delicious that even Buddha would jump over the wall to steal a taste. Buddha was of course a vegetarian.

I bought this canned Buddha Jump Over The Wall (the Chinese aren't particularly good at subject-verb agreement) around 8 months ago curious to find out what it tastes like. It didn't matter to me that this is a vegetarian version as I had been addicted to some really good veggie meat at one point in my past. I have seen the dish on a couple of restaurant menus (meni?) and was unfortunately too much of a cheapskate to try one. An order of the real thing could set you back around $40. This canned one costs around $1.

As I was heating it up, I realized something. If this is a vegetarian version, shouldn't they have called it Buddha Stayed Within The Walls? Talk about irony. I was even thinking how dumb the manufacturers were to miss that.

But after tasting it, I saw the logic behind the name. Buddha sure would need to jump over the wall to escape eating this one! Yuck.