Lu reports that one day in the late nineteenth century, a chef for an official family heard his employer singing the praises of a great dish he had just eaten, an exquisite meal of duck and chicken baked in a wine jug. The first efforts at imitation were less than ideal, so the official took the cook to the original house to learn it straight from the wife who had prepared the dinner.
當時福州有家「聚春園」餐館，老闆在官員家裡掌過廚，有回官員在別人家吃到一道用酒罈烹製的雞、鴨，讚賞不止，回家要他仿製，仿製不理想，乾脆帶他去向那家夫人求教。