The origin of Wuxi Sanfengqiao Spare Ribs in Sauce?

Wuxi Sanfengqiao Spare Ribs have been around for more than 140 years, and there is a beautiful legend about their origin.

The story goes that Jigong traveled all the way to Wuxi, and because people didn't know that this raggedy monk in rags and crazy behavior was Jigong, almost no one would give him alms. Jigong all the way to the Buddha, came to a cooked meat in front of the door to ask the boss for money, the boss said just opened the door no money, gave Jigong a piece of meat, Jigong asked the boss to ask for, the boss gave another piece of meat, after eating Jigong also want to, the boss said with a face of unhappy, "Meat are for you to eat up my tomorrow what to sell it ah?" "I'll just sell meat bones!" Jigong took over the topic slowly and methodically said, while saying, but also from the portable broken bushel pulled down a few bushels to the boss: "Put these bushels in the meat and bones pot to stew together, I eat the meat, later will double back to you." The boss listened to half-believe, but still tried, in the pot into the few bushels, meat bones really become fragrant, the entire ancient city of Wuxi can smell the aroma, since then, this cooked meat Zhuang began to operate meat bones business to, with the passage of time, this approach gradually in the civil society Kelai, and ultimately the formation of Wuxi's famous specialties --- meat bones, that is, today we have the meat bones, the meat bones. -meat bones, which is what we call Wuxi sauce ribs today.