Buddha's delight; vegetarian dish
A Chinese-influenced vegetarian dish often associated with Buddhist cuisine, typically containing a mix of vegetables, tofu, and sometimes nuts or mushrooms.
I ate Buddha's delight as one of the vegetarian dishes.
Standard kanji spelling for this dish.
Variant spelling using 菜 (vegetable) instead of 斎.
Variant using the traditional character 齋; less common in modern Japanese.
From Chinese 羅漢齋 (luóhànzhāi), literally 'arhat vegetarian dish', referring to a dish suitable for Buddhist monks.