Random thought:

"Buddha jumps over the wall", in my opinion, is by far the BEST name that any dish can have. The name of the dish is itself a complete and grammatically correct sentence. Being the name of a dish, this makes it a proper noun too. This leads to interesting possible constructions of garden-path sentences such as:

"The Buddha jumps over the wall tastes good."

"I like Buddha jumps over the wall."

Seriously, how cool is it to have the name of a dish being a complete sentence? What's more, this complete sentence tells you nothing about the dish, which makes its name all the more cool.

Supposedly the name of the dish is meant to imply that the dish, which contains meat, is so good that even Buddha himself, an advocate of vegetarianism (if there's such a word), would jump over the wall to eat it. Good thing though that Buddha is mortal, otherwise that would constitute as blasphemy.

Perhaps the name of the dish itself pokes fun at Buddhism. The name does make sense, since Buddha doesn't have special powers, so he could only jump over a wall. But what if the one whom one wishes to suan has some powers? Let's see...

Moses parts the wall.
Jesus rebukes the wall.
Muhammad flies over the wall.
Xenu H-bombs the wall.
Xun Zi punishes the wall.
Lao Zi becomes one with the wall.
Mencius nurtures the wall.
Shiva destroys the wall.
Vishnu creates an opening in the wall.
Brahma... preserves his status of hunger.

I'm off for England tomorrow, not sure if I'll have internet access. Blog may die.