Celebrate Buddha's Birthday

BUDDHA JUMPS OVER THE WALL 

Foumami Features Food Fit for Buddha in Honor of His Birthday

 

WHAT: The celebration of Buddha’s birth (observed this year on May 28) is a national holiday throughout Asia, marked by joyous parades, communal meals and other cultural rituals.

Combining “foo,” the Chinese word for Buddha, with “umami,” the Japanese word for flavor or taste, Foumami loosely translates to “what Buddha finds to be most delicious.” Chinese folklore says that Buddha was so infatuated with the aromas wafting into the monastery from a nearby village that he jumped over the wall for just one taste of the villagers’ food. At Foumami, the food is so flavorful that diners experience firsthand why Buddha was compelled to jump over the wall.


To honor Buddha’s birthday, Foumami tempts diners to “jump over the wall” with a week of special menu items:



MISO EGGPLANT TEMPURA SANDWICH

Eggplant tempura stuffed with seasoned beef, drizzled with house-made red sweet miso sauce, served in shao bing bread, topped with romaine and spicy longhorn peppers

Significance: Blends gently fried eggplant and freshly baked shao bing with deep umami flavors to achieve the enticing scent that caught Buddha’s attention.

AMACHA

Naturally sweet hydrangea tea brewed yearly in honor of Buddha’s birthday.

Significance: In Japanese tradition, people visit temples to pour amacha on the head of statues depicting Buddha’s birth, as if bathing a newborn.



WHEN: May 29 – June 5, 2012

WHERE: Fóumami

INFO: 225 Franklin Street, Boston (Financial District)
617-426-8858 WEBSITE: http://www.foumami.com/