Teacher:You are given a passage. You need to construct a question about the information present in the passage. Construct a question in such a way that (i) it is unambiguous, (ii) its answer is the whole paragraph. Avoid creating questions that can be answered correctly without actually understanding the paragraph.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The real reason for calling this small dish a "monkey dish" has been lost. The stories in the other anser as as good as any. They has been repeated again and again on the web (but this does not make them any more reliable).
Others have associated this dish with the "ramekin."
See the first three sites below.
The most reliable source that I could find states:
There are questions for which there are no satisfactory answers (Who named the "monkey dish?"). See the final site.
Student:
in the food service industry, there is a small vegetable dish that is called a monkey dish, Why?